19th March 2011

Saturday and the weather is looking good. Polly went of to Stagecoach while Alfie and i stayed at home. Phil popped into his Dad's to pick up is new computer that he ordered last week. He also ordered a new TV for our bedroom which was delivered on Friday but i was not in so it is going to be delivered again on Monday we hope so Phil is working from home until it turns up. All we need is the bracket to put it up on the wall then we are up and running, yipee!

Due to the weather being so nice we decided to go to Thorpe park this afternoon and use our Merlin passes. So off we go around 12 o'clock only to find that there is a queue of cars going up the Stokenchurch hill to get onto the M40 due to there being a very bad crash by the Lewknor junction so all the cars have been diverted off and the M40 was closed between Thame and Stokenchurch, two lorries we heard on the radio. We eventually got onto the M40 and got to Thorpe park around 1.30pm as we stopped off at the new Beaconsfield services for some lunch as we thought it would be easier to eat before we got there.

Parked up and got into the park which did not look to busy, this is the ideal time to come just after the park
has opened for the new season! Went on a few rides dry and wet ones which the kids loved, but got very wet on the last ride so we decided to make out way back home as the park was closing at 6pm and by this time it was 5.30pm and my jeans where wet and i was starting to feel cold! Why do kids never feel the cold Alfie was walking about with no jacket on saying he was warm i will never understand them!

Had a really good afternoon, looking forward to having alot more like these with our Merlin Passes this year!

I am very pleased as i actual managed to finish my book, i know what you are thinking how long does it take to read a book? Well for me it could be a week but then again it could take a lot longer, like this one i started back in 2010 but i have finished it at last while driving to Thorpe Park. It was the Autobiography of Gok Wan

so i can now pass this book on to mum for her to read. There is a paragraph in the last chapter of this book which i would like to share with you: Gok Wan's words are:
' I firmly believe that you've got to embrace who you are as a person. You do not need to lose weight because you look in a magazine and see a woman who is airbrushed, re-touched, underweight and on a catwalk. And i know that because i've been on both sides of the fence. There's no point in losing weight and becoming addicted to the gym if you don't understand the person you are. You can never be happy that way. Accepting who and what you are and resolving to make the most of that person is the kjey. I truly believe that.'

I like this and it has alot of meaning to what he is saying!