Almost 27!

Can't believe on Tuesday I'll officially be in my late 20s. Or does that not come until 27.5? Or was I already at 26.6666? Can't I still stay mid for a while?

The past few weeks have been wicked busy, but fun! I've finished the theory side of my course and sat the exam (I find out how I did in a few weeks time), started the practical today which was immensely scary, ditched working again two weeks ago, got an interview for a hopefully nicer job next week, booked a small cheapy trip to a hostel in the mountains in a couple of months to try out my beautiful new snowboard wot I bought (yay! a pretty K2 which also donates some profits to Breast Cancer Care - good fuzzy feeling), saw Pink in concert (oh... wow...!) and watched my avocado trees grow another few inches! Although Armando lost his first four baby teeth recently, giving him only 5 leaves total, where Alonso has about 18 already! Can't believe they're brothers sometimes.

I'm also being chauffeur to my Mum at the mo, since she shattered her meniscus cartilage in her knee and needs keyhole surgery and a hoover. So we drove down to Canterbury (soooo pretty!) to visit big bro Ben and wifey Sandrine who were celebrating their 5th anniversary a year and a month early (while making the most of Sandrine's sabbatical from Melbourne Uni and visiting the family all over UK and France, and holding a party as close to where the two countries meet as poss!) They'd hired half a pub for the evening but we bumped into most of the family during the day already, just wandering around town. We found Anna, Ellie and Lydia in Canterbury Cathedral, immediately got the giggles and almost got chucked out by the serious man in the high-vis sash. Then we partied all night and spent the next morning and afternoon in nearby Whitstable, recovering on the beach with a picnic of cheese and wine and cake, mmmmm. It was also Sandrine's mum's 70th birthday so we had bubbly too! Apart from me (designated driver - made it up with extra cheese).

Some pics...

Me and bro Benji and his new(ish) dreadlocks! ... with his belle épouse ... The parents (Mum with silly pout, Maurice and Genevieve) outside Canterbury hostel (PS - what a breakfast!) ... Winner of the ugliest face competition ... Canterbury Cathedral gate ... the downstairs crypt of forbidden photography ... Solemn message of prayer left by my little minx of a cousin Lydia ... Sunset mode pays off at Whitstable harbour ... Boaty photie ... RANDOM EXTRA: 21 year old Heidi after her bath (hee hee!)

Yes even after selecting 'crap' mode on my camera this blog still doesn't want to accept any more photos.

Tomorrow, I will pop to the local pig / goose / goat farm where they build things and feed things and run educational things for kids and always want volunteers and I'm going to try and see if I can spend the next few weeks with them here and there in between fitness thingies and driving jobs and dentist appointments (there are boringly practical advantages to skiving as well).

Later!
xxxx