My goodness it’s been along time since I posted. I’m sure I had something interesting to post, with pictures, but it temporarily escaped me what it was. I’ll shall be sure to let you know when I remember it.

Right now we’re preparing to go on holiday to wales, so I’ve broken my blog-silence, to warn you of the forthcoming blog silence… hmm.
We’ll be in Carmarthenshire for 7 whole days from Saturday during which we’ll be enjoying many days bodyboarding, geocaching and relaxing at our lovely cottage with a large hot tub in the garden and views over the welsh hills like this:

My parents have been caravaning near us for the last week, so we’ve spent a few evenings with them, and on Saturday I gave my dad his first experience of geocaching. I’m not sure he was that impressed to be honest, but each to his own I suppose.

Aha. I remember what I was going to post now.
It’s my visit to the CRE in Esher.

Each year my employer visits many conferences and exhibitions that are church related in order to advertise, and to provide opportunities for our customers to have face to face contact with us to ask questions and complain at us about why the law is the law etc. This year was my third year of manning the stand for a day at the Christian Resources Exhibition at Sandown Racecourse. It’s always a good laugh and we get treated well my Chris the sales manager.

The only downside is that it’s a really long day. Leaving home at 7am and not getting back till late evening.
Still I always enjoy passing under the flight path at Gatwick on the A23:

We arrived at Sandown at around 9.30am and after a quick drink and croissant at Costa, set to work tolerating the public (actually it was good fun). I went to see what sort of crowds Chris was pulling for his seminar on ‘copyright in the church’ and then had a wander around the exhibition to see what was about. Some of the exhibits seemed somewhat unrelated with items such as classic cars:

and bizzarly, a stall selling wicker coffins!

You can even watch them being made, should you so desire…

It got pretty quiet at the end of the day, so we had a good chat with some of the other exhibitors, and a catch up with some of them who we’d seen the year before. The whole day is always good fun though and it always beats a normal day in the office.

I shalln’t bore you any longer with corporate outings, but shall continue my blog of silence until I return from wales with Celtic tales of what we’ve done.

Taraa for now.