OUR HOMEPAGE AWAY FROM HOME!

September 9, 2006

	St. Giles Fair:Sept.5.2006
	Holiday in New Forest:August.25.2006
	Back at Last!:May.1.2006
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St. Giles Fair September 5, 2006

    Here are a few pictures from St. Giles Fair - an annual event dating from the 1700's, in which they close off one of the main thoroughfares into Oxford City centre for two days of mayhem. I was tempted away from work on my lunch break for a little thrill seeking with the kids :) The fair was deceptively large - it wound up the road and you could never see the whole thing - except from atop the "Storm" ride I went on, as pictured below, and then it was viewed upside down. No matter. It wasn't as overpriced as I had feared, though I confess to shopping around for the best price for cotton-candy - sad, eh?

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Holiday in New Forest August 25, 2006

    This year we decided to have a proper family holiday. Not a couple of disjointed long weekends, not a working holiday, but a proper 2-week dowhateverwewant kind of holiday. Cheap. Preferably near a beach. In Greece. Well you can't have everything for we settled for a holiday in the UK, this time camping in New Forest. New Forest is not really a forest per se so much as a national park with lots of people living in it and clumps of forest heare and there, mixed with moors and farmland. But it has plenty of campsites and it's only about 15 minutes from some of the most fantastic beaches on the soputh coast of England. I never thought of England as having sandy beaches, but there you go. Who needs Greece anyway?

    So we dusted off the old tent, bought ourselves a fancy little gas stove and a not-so-fancy hibachi, stuffed the car to bursting and headed south for 10 days. We read books, played games, went on walks in the forest - we even had friends from Oxford come visit us one evening. But the best of all was Bournemouth's seven miles of beaches. The heatwave had already passed by the time we went camping, but we had some sun every day - bliss! Cooking up eggs and bacon in the mornings was a treat too - had a "manly provider" kind of vibe going. Anyway, here's some pictures.....

Back at Last! May 1, 2006

    Welcome to the new and as-yet rather unpopulated Huxter family website. It's been a long absence,, for which we apologise, but Lycos unceremoniously dropped us over a year ago because of low traffic. Well, there was a little ceremony - the long and short of it was probably that as an unpromoted family website, we weren't generating the kind of traffic their advertisers were hoping for!

    No matter - we reapplied for web-space and we're back, but I'm not even going to attempt to fill in everything that's happened in the past year, at least not right away. It will take time to get new pictures up, so please be patient. Meanwhile, feel free to sign our guest book, and of course, instant-message us if we appear online.

    But just to keep you happy, here are some pictures from our recent easter-break trip to "Farmer Goh's". The girls were a bit wary of the larger sheep at first, but by the end of it, they wanted to sign up for the "farmer-for-a-day" summer holiday option!