Back...

I've been away for a while, it's true, but now I'm back, really. After working my ass off for 6 long weeks at summer camp(pictures above), I've finally found the time to write a post about something. I thought about writing about my love of today...Branston Pickle... but you don't know what it is and there's not many words I can use to describe it, delicious, tasty and great, not enough to fill a post. I can tell you what book I'm reading..I started reading it today and I'm already half way through it, it's by a new author to me, Sydney Sheldon, it's a book called 'Sands of time' and Carolina has promised me that it's better than Da Vinci Code... so far it's v.good, so we'll see.

I'm reliving my fast reading skills days. When I was 10/11 years old I read all the books on the school reading book trolley, I know what your thinking, but yes all three shelves!!! Then the teacher said "Great, you've finished!", I was happy to have achieved something, which is important as a 10/11 year old, even if it was to finish a book trolley, there were more than 100 books!!! A modern day 'Matilda' except I didn't really read a book since. I did go through a phase of reading those 'decide the story' books, where you read a page and you chose what you should do next, which decision to take... they were pretty lame though, I cheated. For example, when you knew you were coming to the end of the book and the decision at the bottom of the page was

'throw the magic rock at the mad wizard from hell' turn to page 33
'run like hell back to the enchanted little village' turn to page 178
'try to talk to the mental wizard and reason with him' turn to page 233

...a quick sneaky peak at page 233 revealed a certain and gruesome death, and turning to page 178 meant that you'd have to read the last 20 pages over again and retake the same decisions, then throwing the magic rock was feeling really attractive, especially after the mad wizard from hell had kidnapped the precious diamond finger from the hand of Dragnar that held the power for all the land... ...so they were pretty lame...

Sometime between now and finishing the trolley I read all the Roald Dahl classics... not sure when. And a book along the way called 'Winjin Pom' which since then has been my favourite book. And considering no one else has probably read this book, then you know it's bad... ...the plot was about an Australian talking caravan and I remember that talking crows were the bad guys, and the good guys travelled around in this caravan, doing crazy capers. Not a day goes by without me thinking about that book, and the TV series...

But I'm trying to make up those lost days since 10/11, having been told I've finished reading now... my new favourite books are probably 'Da Vinci Code' and 'Wild Swans' -Jung Chang(just in case you'd heard of him), both awesome, for completely different reasons.

So I've officially written enough for a post.


I have got even more photos on my flickr account, loads with our new Nikon camera!!!

Make sure you try some Branston Pickle.

And don't listen when someone tells you to stop reading, unless your in certain danger, i.e. mad wizards, buses, poison...


And go see Charlie and the Chocolate factory...

And take a look a Carolina's flickr too while your at it!!