Wot I did on my holidee
We've been to the Lake District, and stayed in this fantastic lodge. It made our house look like a PIGSTY and inspired a new catchphrase which we used all week - "You're not at home now!" The boy and me hired a motor boat on Coniston Water, I let him drive because I was on holiday goddammit! I spooked him out with tales about skellington Donald Campbell abducting people from boats. No holiday is complete without a ride on a steam train. I can't remember where this was, but it did involve a long drive over a mountain. Odd weather in the Lakes; 1 minute you're getting sunburn, 10 minutes later you're fog-bound. That was last week. This week it was Mrs B's 40th birthday, and our wedding anniversary. Unusually I was prepared for this and had arranged a surprise stay in an extremely fancy hotel a few miles out of Stratford-upon-Avon (after offloading Monkeyboy onto our neighbours for the night). Check it out! We had the Victorian Garden suite, which comp...