{"id":92,"date":"2006-09-15T10:50:43","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T10:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/holidays-over-and-done-with-for-another-year\/"},"modified":"2006-09-15T14:25:56","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T14:25:56","slug":"holidays-over-and-done-with-for-another-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/09\/holidays-over-and-done-with-for-another-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday&#8217;s over and done with for another year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"feeding-the-ducks.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/feeding-the-ducks.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"feeding-the-ducks.jpg\" id=\"image91\" src=\"https:\/\/alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/feeding-the-ducks.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a>Well, we&#8217;ve been on holiday and now it&#8217;s back to work the same as before.  We had a lovely time on the Isle of Man.  My mum arranged a family BBQ on my birthday so we got to see all the family in one go rather than spending the whole holiday going from house to house.<\/p>\n<p>I think we all got to do a bit of what we wanted.  Alan managed to fit in several windsurf sessions (I even let him go out on my birthday!) (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forces-of-nature.co.uk\/dbdriven\/diary\/diary.php\">http:\/\/www.forces-of-nature.co.uk\/dbdriven\/diary\/diary.php<\/a> for more info), Morgan got to spend lots of &#8216;quality time&#8217; with both of us and his Granny and I had a bit of time to relax and Alan and I even managed to go out a coupel of evenings so all in all a good time was had!<\/p>\n<p>We introduced Morgan to the joys of feeding the ducks.  Ask most Manx people and they&#8217;ll tell you the place to go is the arboretum in St Johns.  In fact many associate arboretums with ducks rather than trees much to Al&#8217;s amusment!<\/p>\n<p>Alan tried out his latest activity of geocaching (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/\">http:\/\/www.geocaching.com<\/a>).  It was a good excuse to get out and about although doing it with a pushchair and baby to tow was a slight hinderance.  I don&#8217;t think we are very good at it but our results were much improved once Al read the instructions on his GPS and put the co-ordinates in right!<\/p>\n<p>Morgan came on leaps and bounds with his talking.  He only had a few noises before we went but has come home telling us all about planes and trains and cats and pigs to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, it&#8217;s back to work now but it was nice to have a break.  I&#8217;m already planning the next holiday and we&#8217;ve managed to convice my mum to come along as an extra pair of hands to help with Morgan and let me and Al have a bit of time together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we&#8217;ve been on holiday and now it&#8217;s back to work the same as before. We had a lovely time on the Isle of Man. 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