hi, i have saved all of photos onto dads computer. hope they are ok. they are the size that comes up when you are looking at photos on here so not sure if they have been shrunk? but i have them all at least. going up to allys tonight and then walking so won't have the internet for a while but hope the next week goes as well as everything has so far xxxxxx

Hello again!

Why do I have to be able to add up to post a message? It's hard enough getting the spelling write ;-)

Back in oxford, having a good time now as have moved in with my friend Janine and I have lots of space, she has however put me on a regieme of crudites and diet coke for lunch and then gym every evening - I've already had the shakes and went to bed last ngiht sure I was about to vomit cos of the vegetable excess. Don't know how you two cope being veggie...

Lizzy and I took Grandmutter and Grandvater to Fellgate at teh weekend, with Mr Minch- minch was awful but fellgate looks amazing!

I met a cat today called Mr Poo. Honestly.

No other news from me really. Bet this month flies by...

lots of love

hi, just to say dissington rang. think they want you to check your emails xxxx

hey, hope you're okay, although by the sounds of it you're having an awesome time. I am very jealous. Although now have holiday booked for prague and krakow next week! Apparently doing things last minute runs in the family... anyway i want detailed accounts of the best places to go! btw have read harry potter, i enjoyed it ... but it can wait till you get back, it certainly wasnt the best book so don't worry. I debated writing what happens in the end but figured that was too harsh! keep up the blogs and photos! x

hello my dear! i will make that my mission for this evening. will let you know if i succeed and you can delete them. it is possible i have done one already to find out its just a question of if i can be bothered... i also have to pack as am going to glasgow tomorrow. i bought a camera today, it is a bit like dads but pink!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love it! also got 2 scarves/pashmina things in accessoriza sale, they are beautiful. one is purple and the other is thinner and different shades of green with gold thread. soooooo nice. see what happens when you are away and i don't spend my time in town looking for stuff for you, i am broke! xxxxxx ps mr minch is not gentle he just embarassed me greatly by woofing continously for about 10 minutes at the people delivering the oven

It's not quite the Ritz, but it will seem like it to us! Going to a veggie restaurnat tonight as a break from accidentally eating meat on what looks like margharita pizza things from bakeries. am trying to get more photos on but proving to be a pain in the arse! do you know if you can save them to your comp from the net, so i don't have to keep them all on my phone? if it's too hard don't btoehr. got sleeper from prague to krakow booked, should be interesting... we're gonna stink by the end of it! looking into 10 euro tickets for verona opera on the night we're in a hostel- think we'll stick to the hotel the whole time we've got it booked (1 night!) not sure what to do between verona and paris, got 3 nights, trains look very long from verona to anywhere, grr. poor mr minch, maybe he's jsut being gentle! xxxxxx

Yeah , I wrote two messages before I realised you needed to do the sum to post them. Why??? Surely this is discrimination against mathematic illiterati like me!

Glad opera was good - I recall reading reviews about amazing sets at Bregenz in the past so I'm glad it lived up to its reputation.

I think we can stretch to funding a hotel in Verona just so long as its not the Ritz/equivalent!

Lizzy is practising using her SPD pedals on her bike in the turbotrainer in the sitting room - it looks very precarious and trip to A&E seems imminent......

Mr Minch has not caught any rabbits yet but I live in hope.

love

Mum/M

ARGH jsut wrote long message forgot to do súm at end! mads: it jsut means andie is much more attractive to fish, which you wouldn't want to be! tell her i say hi btw. v impressed with ur fishing, despite fact that i am veggie. think stuttgart fave so far beciuse of open air ballet thingie. parents- gald ur alive and home, monica there? also, fancy funding one night in a nice hotel in verona for when we get sick of sleeping next to stragners?! been fine so far apart from 2 ngihts when we were sharing with a scary hairy man (he didnt talk, he jsut looked it) and a psychotic female! bit of an exaggeration, biut not much. wreally want harry potter, almost cry whenever i see someone reading it! not enought time tho! vvv hot here, but loos lush. opera UNBELIEVABLE! the set was huge, and kept changing- rotating, pushing people off stage into water, opening up mini stages 20m above stage etc! love to everyoen xxxxx

Hello everybody, we are having a great time. the opera last night was absolutely out of this world, and i expect that we will still be ranting and raving about it when we get back. We are now in Munich where it is ridiculously hot. Have resitsietd the urge to buy harry Potter, and are now on our 6th day in a row without coffee. Hostel seems nice even though it was a bit expensive - at least we get free brekky. Will blog tomorrow. xxx

hi, did you get to the opera? it is very wet here so i hope the weather was better with you. i'm so bored!!!! may even be reduced to tidying my room. hope you are having more fun xxxx

Hi, We are back home at last having avoided landslides and floods in the west country. Sailing was fab but cornwall not a patch on scotland. Rabbits in the garden have eaten all my carefully grown veg although it does mean mr minch may have a use at last as we have sent him off to chase them. Hardly seen lizzy as she's been too busy reading harry potter. Thanks for all the photos, keep safe. Lots of love of mum of dad

Great to hear from u, wish u were here :(. Where's ur fave place in the big ol' world so far?? Not that i'm a particularly well travelled person but i'd say Amsterdam. No, not for any untoward reason if that's what u were thinking I left the drinking and visit to the sex museum to my art teachers! What'd u think of the vGogh museum, isn't it amazing to see them up close? A museum begining with R?? The fish is going great I caught 5 mackerel last week, which sounds good until u hear Andie caught 20, humph. I just had one for tea yum yum. Also am wishing i could of been at that choc factory, it must have been like heaven. Can't wait to c u again XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX