Productivity comes in waves for me, especially on personal stuff. This weekend has been particularly productive. I’ve sorted out lots of stuff that’s been hanging around for a few weeks.

I’m particularly pleased that I’ve got the camper packed up for the winter. It is now hoovered out, the bed sheets are packed away and I’ve also put on the winter cover. I have also processed all the photos from our last holiday now and published them to my Flickr account and onto the photo album here. I’m not very fast at processing, so it was good to get them all done.

I’ve also started preparing for my conference trip to Santa Clara, USA, in a fortnight. Travel is now all sorted as the plane tickets are booked, along with travel insurance and the hotel. For the travel insurance, I went with Norwich Union as they gave me a good deal, probably as we have other insurance with them too.

Jon, Ben and I played Boom Blox on the Wii this afternoon. Ben is struggling to use the wiimote to control the game. Jon has completely “got it” now and has no trouble flicking his wrist at just the right moment. Boom Blox is quite good – it’s a play on Jenga and quite addictive.

So, all in all, a great weekend. Now it’s time to play World of Warcraft…

Another camping season is over for the Allen family. This year we managed three trips in our Pennine Pathfinder:

• Kingsbury Water Park, a Camping and Caravanning Club site near Sutton Coldfield.
• Long Beach Tenting and Touring, on the Norfolk coast.
• Highclere Farm in Buckingshire, close to Legoland.

We had a good time in all of our trips away this year. They were all very different. Kingsbury is close to us and less than one hour’s drive. We stayed for a long weekend and will almost certainly be visiting again next year. Our pitch at Long Beach was stunning. It overlooked the sand dunes and the sea. Next year we’ll be going to the west coast though as we prefer to watch the sun set over the ocean with a glass of wine. Highclere Farm was easily the cleanest site we’ve been to. It had excellent facilities and the kids loved the playground.

All in all a good season, I feel.