Wonderful weekends

Just back from another "neighbours 'do'" and this must have been one of the soberest ever!! Are we getting too sensible? Running out of steam? Too old? Who knows and does it matter if we still have fun?

We realised that these 'do's' started 10 years ago in January and apart from a year when Mark, Becki and the girls first moved, we've been going strong ever since. So many shared experiences, in jokes and sore heads and the kids who age from 7 - 17 now have literally know each other most of or all of their lives.

Now a days we stretch it out until after Sunday lunch but the adults are already planning the long weekends when they are all off our hands and we can head off to places new for a whole weekend.

Although it wasn't as drunken and riotous and events passed, Alan still needed to have a doze in the sun.....

He was also dozing in the sun last weekend when we escaped, without 12 year old, to celebrate my birthday in Deal.....

Al was just saying how doing more things at weekends seems, in a bizarre way, be the secret to feeling that you've done more and yet not being shattered. Sounds weird I know.

On our last two weekends, we've been away for about 26 hours yet have been really chilled and relaxed and felt we've been away for ages. I recommend doing this much more often.

Here are some more photos of my favourite location - anywhere really that is beside the sea.

I have to admit to not rating Deal Pier at all, it didn't look much from the distance and as a result , we didn't go out on it. Realised later that it won an award in 2008 - Pier of the Year 2008 by the National Piers Society. Oops!! Read a bit about it here - http://www.doverdc.co.uk/news/press_releases/deal_pier_wins_national_award.aspx Yes, I'll go out there next time I visit.

And finally, like this photo too.

It's so important to chill, so important to recharge your batteries so please do.... You'll be more efficient and a nicer person to boot.