He seems to be like the pied piper – able to mesmerise large groups of children. This is an invaluable skill, which allows all the other parents to sit back and have a beer while Andrew looks after the kids. You can see that we recently had a holiday in the North Yorkshire Moors with two other family friends and all their kids.
We did a morning walk from the cottage we were all staying in, around a field of wheat, during which I suffered terrible hay fever. There must have been lots of grass pollen, although not the right kind of grass to get the seed head to pop off properly to the rhyme: Miss Polly had a dolly and it's head popped off! As William says - it didn't work :)
We also spent some time in the Lake District. Here is William splashing in Keswick.
William at the Cowley Rd festival in early July. I reckon he looks older than he is in this shot, as he casually strolls down the street....
We’ve recently also had a lovely family holiday camping with friends in the New Forest. A bit of home-made bunting (made by Liz) gave the gazebo a very fancy look. It was Sophie’s first camping trip. It was busy. We enjoyed walks in the forest (finding beetles, frogs and a deer skull), kite flying at the campsite, a boat ride on the river at Buckler’s Hard (William wondered if perhaps we might fall off) and some very good pub meals. There were a number of baths in a bucket (including one at the end of a day in a car park, in the naïve hope that William would drop off to sleep on the drive home). At an animal sanctuary for British animals, we saw owls, a lynx, otters being fed, and patted a fox cub. William was very cute running around the campsite in his pants and t-shirt. William was very excited to be sleeping in a tent and as it is so light in a tent had a few nights staying up until 10pm! One meal was eaten to a chorus of screaming kids. Ah, the joys of camping! Now, we are back at home, doing a million loads of washing and recovering from it all.
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