You just HAVE to see this place. St. Madoc is 88 acres of Christian Youth Camp run by Mummy's brother Matt Matt. It's got everything; cliffs, beaches, wildlife and dry rot. Here's the gang on the beach. When I say gang, I don't mean they drug run and do 'drive-bys'. Just theft and pilage.
And here's a picture of the beach from a different angle. In the middle is Noodle Doodle looking as though Dada has just been mean to her again. She gets her own back - you can watch an all action A-Team style fight scene at YouTube
We were there for The Beard's 60th birthday (he's my grandad who I call Day-Day. Dada calls him The Beard on account of some mess on his face) . We gave him the bumps, but could only manage 26 (25 plus the old one 'for luck')
Went to my first museum (Dada said 'museum' means 'place to go when its raining' or ' there's naff all else to do', and you know what, it didn't suck as much as I thought it would. In The National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, there was: things to break, things to put in my mouth AND things to hide behind (my new FAVOURITE game) - pretty much lke everywhere else I've ever been really; except with nicer lighting. The olds celebrated the museum visit by having a bonfire on the headland ... apparently ... I missed it because of the evil 'bedtime'
Now I must tell you about The Matriarchs. Three senior ladies of grandparent-ish persuasion. They are a force to be reckoned with even on a normal day. But add 9 bottles of wine and WATCH OUT. Two of them pulled Dada off his chair and sat on him after he referred to them bingo style as '88 - Two fa ... ladies' when they were having their picture taken. Then the other matriarch who shall remain nameless (but Dada calls her 'Mum'), then had an incident where as far as I can tell, she didn't like the colour of the pavement so decided to re-colour it. Dada got told off for telling everyone (after my teenage Grandad told Dada) THEN Dada also got blamed for the flying balls, but I have evidence that my buddy Harvie just might have been involved!
It was a useful trip for family bonding and a celebration of a great man's milestone birthday. But it served a practical purpose as well - we realised we had to drop the baby back pack from our luggage items for the BIG trip. Before that starts though - a brief visit to IRELAND ... up next
big UP: All hail the Barney Massive + Plus (on the way home) Joe Broad for letting me play with his 4th birthday toys
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