New forest trip

Latest Kay family outing was to the new forest. This brings back great memories for me as my grandpa lived here for quite some time. We used to come visit regularly, and go for walks in the forest.

We went camping this time, in our fairly new tent. Stupidly, we forgot to air it last time, and we spent a while cleaning it after we put it up. Much thanks to auntie Liz!

First night was fine, grace slept well which was great. We went to for a walk near lyndhurst, and saw some very timid deer. Then had a picnic at the reptile center, grace saw some real life snakes.... ssssssss!!!!!!

Second night was not so good, ponies were charging around the tents. Liz thought she was going to get squished, and so did I sometimes!

Next day we went for a walk in the forest again, where there was a river, grace spent ages throwing stones into the river. We then took a trip to visit grandpas grave, still looking clean and tidy. A shame he never got to meet grace and sam. Liz went home, and we went to see some big trees. Giant redwoods and sequoia, as you can see they were very big compared to grace!

Saturday was coming home time, via legoland, our second free visit in three days! Got to love them merlin passes!!

Punting on the cam

Went to Cambridge yesterday and spent most of the day Punting out towards granchester. Brian was a dab hand, and looks as if he would feel at home in Venice!

I had a go second, and spent most of the time backing out of dense brush on the side of the cam.

Sam had a go, which was funny, as we zigzagged down the river like a drunk duck! However she managed to avoid sticking it into the bank, unlike me!

Pat had a go last, and was also a dab hand, managing to keep the punt on the straight and narrow.

I took over for the last stretch, and bar one visit to give my passengers a very close look at the botannical variety along the cam, I managed to redeem my poor driving with a paking maneuver that would probably impress super tanker captains!

Ah - you have probably noticed I haven't mentioned gracie yet! She had a whale of a time, spending most of the time leaning over the punt trying to pickup any flotsam and jetsam that drifted past. Which gave me the heebie-de-beejeebies most of the time, however how else can you keep a 23 month old busy on a small boat on a river!

Right that wraps up the family Punting trip, bizarrely I am doing it again today, taking my Uni friends on a tour of Cambridge!