I had a great weekend, I met with 15 members of my family for `Ladies weekend` in Anglesey in a small caravan. Its amazing we all fit, we mostly all had to sit outside. Its not often we all get together in one place. In between the drinking we looked for snakes and birdwatched, and hunted for pignuts which was unsuccesful. On saturday we went to a carboot sale where I picked up a 4 season gelert lynx 400 sleeping bag for 12 quid and a whole box of kid leather skins for a fiver.

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I was reading this article on the BBC site today and I also listened to Radio two earlier about kids not getting out like their parents did despite the statistics that kids are no more likely to get taken now than 30 years ago and far less likely to get run over.

It really made me think about the fantastic childhood I had and the freedom that came

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