A New Challenge

The family that plays together.....

Well here's a new one.  We have all taken up archery!

Tony liked the idea when a new acquaintance mentioned a possible weekend get together with an archery keen crowd, so true to form the gauntlet was thrown down and a new set of skills needed to be learned.  As this also coincided with the start of the school holidays why not all try - especially as it was still pouring with rain outside.  So we are now 4 lessons in and all are improving, some of us slower than others.  It can be very frustrating when you know you are pointing the thing in the right direction and it decides to his someone else's target, or better still the floor.

We continue to keep trying.  Who knows I may even get all 6 arrows in the target soon!!

 The boys getting ready

Serious concentration (before occasional frustration)

Summer Holidays Arrive

It's been a long time since I have written any updates but now that we are a couple of weeks into the summer holidays and Lewis has managed to write his journal everyday, I decided that maybe it was time for me to write too.  Lewis' summer holiday journal has become an annual tradition and is now in its third year - I already love reading back to previous years.

The sun finally arrived this week and we all hope it lasts, it has been gone for far too long.  So with that in mind we decided to head off for some fruit picking.  Raspberries were our chosen picking and it didn't take long to fill up the containers.  I have just finished the last of them so I guess we will need a repeat visit, especially as the weather man has just told me tomorrow could get up to 32'!!!  Hooray.