We were awoken this morning by the normal mad household chaos of the Francis family. Now sometime over the last couple of years Chris & Elaine have decided that having 2 children and a full time job each does not give them enough stress in their lives. They have therefore along the way added some fish, two cats (one of which is crazy and has been hiding under the house since we've been here!), a rabbit and a crazy dog to their household. Whilst we have been h...

Woke this morning with no hangover (bargain!) Accompanied Nick and Chris to their football game and had a bit of a game myself. The game reinforced the fact that I am appalling bad at football. The ball arrives at my foot which I swing wildly and manage to completely miss (gave up after 10 minutes!) Spent the evening having dinner with Chris & Elaine and two of their friends (which Chris had prepared so the food and company were fab!)

This morning we went to watch Ryan play the last rugby game of the season - and they won. In the evening we went to the Horsham Downs School Quiz Night (the school Jade & Ryan go to). The evening was fancy dress so we went as cowboys and we had a fantastic night! Although Tasha was kidnapped by the Smurf team and forced to join them. In her place we got Brigit a smurf dressed in Tashas' cowboy outfit with an extremely bad welsh accent which when challenged sh...

Oh my what a hangover the worst one since we have been on this trip. Managed to make it to the car to go and do some more shopping and to take Chris to work. Once we got back to the house I had to go back to bed! Woke up feeling a bit better so we took Tasha, Jade and Ryan to the cinema to see Mr. Poppers Penguins which was very good. We all managed to consume our own body weight in sweets and brought two very hyperactive kids back home to their parents (fortunat...

Did a bit of shopping today (for warm clothes!) as I only seem to have shorts and t-shirts. The highlight of the day however was discovering Chris’ CD stash and fortunately his taste in music is nowhere near as bad as his brothers. I immediately put some new wave on which brought back memories of Trimsaran Welfare Hall Friday night discos with Vince on the decks! I then got on with some serious cleaning cupboards/windows the works (whether they needed it or not...