Too little time....!

I wanted to blog about NicCamps at Helmsley, but I don't have time! Suffice to say it was a really great week - my favourite HE camp so far - and I think in their own ways the girls loved it too. It was a shame Shannon was ill (though not, thank goodness, with a tummy bug as I feared when she threw up within 5 minutes of arriving at the Hostel) but with a nasty cough and cold that had her intermittently feverish all week. But highlights were snow, Christmas lunch, Mamma Mia sing-along, Helen and Em's beautiful music playing, and my one run through the crisp snowy Yorkshire countryside. I also did a quick visit to my father-in-law who was very pleased to see the girls especially when Shannon sang to him (Twinkle Twinkle and Baa Baa Black Sheep) and while there made a quick visit to Guisborough, where I lived from age 1-8, and showed the girls my old house and school. It was a real shame my oldest friend from those times couldn't come to visit us at the Hostel as planned due to the snowy and icy weather, though. I also finally managed to relive childhood memories and make a visit to the Castle Museum in York on the Friday, having ended up at completely the wrong museum when I attempted to get there on the way up on Monday! I was horrified to find that pink sugar mice no longer have a string tail, but instead have some poor modern stick substitute - it's just not right! And also somewhat shaken to find that items from my childhood are displayed in the museum. Ah well, tempus fugit!