Planet Ruby Starrs

A complete break from college stuff as my daughter and her two children and myself headed off to France for an adventure.  For the girls it was the first time on an plane and it was pretty amazing, little legs was totally entranced by the whole experience, she soon got over the disappointment that nana wasn't driving and spent the whole time sat on my knee spotting her house - nanas house ( I wish ....we were over Jersey at this point) - there were actual boats but I wondered whether the 'whales ' she spotted were real... Then a serious rip off taxi ride to the camping Chateaux de Galinee in north Brittany, the same price for 20 mins 10 mile as an adult plane fare!! And the next bit of adventure - a caravan - which little legs thinks is called an airport!! and best of all a huge HEATED swimming area with wave machines Jacuzzi jets, and water slides - heaven for our water babies!!!! I totally renegaded on my promise to go on the water slides but no one seemed to care - the...

Its all going a bit downhill at the moment!!! Yesterday Dr Fred got up and could hardly walk, with very little warning other then a funny sensation the night before- his knee has decided to rebel, cease working in an efficient manner and swell up to the size of a medium melon.  Its grim! We spent the day feeling sorry for ourselves, Dr Fred extremely gloomy and not even a bear sighting to cheer us up.   We did see a moose or maybe an Elk but we were on a busy road and couldn’t stop so it was a fleeting glimpse and not enough to raise our spirits.  Trouble is knees might go bad overnight but they certainly don’t mend that quickly!  So Saturday is another doom and gloom day Dr Fred’s knee worse if anything - its very swollen still and ice has helped but its also quite painful.  At least he can still drive and while he’s feeling like an old crock he has at least got me to cheer him up! We went into town and had coffee and cake by way of a treat and I ...