Commercial Break
We were away camping with friends last week in Wales. Plenty of beach exploration, socialising, life skills, living in a tent in a field, dealing with extreme weather conditions (including floods! 
), swimming, running about and generally having a wonderful time.
As such I have no particular recall of what happened on which day so it seems a but pointless to try and attribute anything other that a fantastic week of childhood with lots of memories they’ll carry forever of sitting round a campfire lit on a beach, toasting marshmallows and singing songs with a large group of friends, finding crabs in rockpools, tasting seasalt on their lips, having their tent flooded then moved by a team of complete strangers who happened to be camped on the same field as us to a safer part of the campsite, a wonderful day at a theme park riding rollercoasters and eating ice creams, finished off with fireworks that lit up the sky and their faces.
That to me is what childhood is about and I love that although this week coincided with school summer holidays anyway it was with a group of Home Educating friends and rather than being exceptional it was a slice of what has become our rather wonderful lifestyle year round with the freedom, friendships and voyage of discovery that we’ve adopted since we chose to Home Educate.
Back next week with a return to normal blogging. 
