Holiday prep Sept. 16, 2006

The decision as to what to do on holiday each day is taken democratically. By secret ballot. The list of proposed activities, is split into two : daytime and evening.
1. Bike ride and pub
2. Tea and cakes at Auntie Pat & Alan’s
3. Portsmouth and Spinnaker Tower.
4. Trash the Shopper bicycle.
5. Build a treehouse (in the Wildwoods)
6. West Wittering (“best beach” in Britain)
7. Fontwell horse-racing
8. Play football in the park
9. Trip west (Dorset direction)
10. Trip east (East Sussex direction)
11. Isle of Wight and Freshwater Bay
12. Goodwood Hills walk
13. Lawn bowls

1. Cinema (“The Queen”)
2. Quiz at the Fisherman’s Joy, Tuesday.
3. Invite ourselves to Auntie Pat and Al’s for meal
4. Family fun.
5. Evening at pub / pub crawl / photograph crawl
6. Campsite bumper cars and cabaret
7. Board games
8. Ten-pin bowling at Chichester
9. Seal Hotel pub quiz Wednesday

… listed by order of popularity. The timetable can now be assembled. And adhered to. A few activities are taken as read : swimming in the sea; lying on the beach; watching a bit of tv; pontificating over what the weather is going to do; arguing particularly over the truth of what the papers say (well one paper really); TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS!