First time to this most ancient and English of towns down there on the very beautiful Sussex coast, all in aid of Hidden Britain for which are are working on the Botley project.
Eight similar small towns there - Hungerford, Wallingford, Dorchester, Brading, Wootton Bridge, EdenBridge, Farnham and... oops?? each at different stages of the process.
Our work is up there with the best of them which was good to see.

MAde me see that we as a company haven't done nearly enough this year to promote and develop the Hamble Valley brand we took over last Christmas, and I think by letting this happen we haven't given enougfh respect to Jo and her contacts/experience.
What we need to do is set up an 'organistation' - Hamble Valley Tourism Association ?? - which we can then use to acquire the relevant funding and embark on a project such as that in Eskdale.

Winchelsea is a stunning place. And the 13th century church of St Thomas epitomises that - some great ideas from this conference today which entirely explain why we were called to go.
Paid my respects to the very wonderful Terence Alan (Spike) Milligan, who is buried in the churchyard there with the clever epitaph he wrote for himself (I told them I was ill) inscribed in gaelic.

First time I've seen the extraordinary Pevensey Levels and the seaside town of Hastings.
What is it about the british seaside town? Trash personified. Yet not lacking in a strange charm, especially in late November...

Big night for Stan the Little Man today. His first with nothing on under his PJs.
Three weeks ago we introduced the 'Mother Ease' pants in an attempt to break his wetting at night habit, and he has been dry in them right from the first night.
It did seem the time had come to address the 'problem' and get him out of napppies, and it was obviously right for him.
he's so please dwith himself and has got right out of the habit, now getting up about 8 o'clock for a wee after reading and then going first thing in the morning.

And read - wooo, does he read!! Pinocchio this week, not to mention ceral packets, library books, sSpiderman comics. Literally everything. He's just like ali, so luckily we have lots of stuff to keep him occupied.
And he loves being read too as well, but I think he's growing oout of the stories we have in the evenings.
Or is it good for them to just relax and listen to something a little 'simple' before they go off to their own rooms and get lost in stories by themselves?
I think so