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	home :: 23 June 2008 OK here we are on our summer hols, at the Haven holiday park in Mablethorpe, on the Lincolnshire coast. Click on picture to enlarge.
		We stayed in quite a posh caravan... Click on picture to enlarge.

	...here it is. Click on picture to enlarge.
		Here's Ry in the caravan. Click on picture to enlarge.

	While we were there Looby's Mum and Dad and Big Nan came down to join us for a day. Click on picture to enlarge.
		It was also Grandma's birthday. Click on picture to enlarge.

	This is Grandad playing with the kids at the caravan. Click on picture to enlarge.
		Here's J on a motorbike. Click on picture to enlarge.

	...and again. Click on picture to enlarge.
		This is me and J on the Orbiters. Click on picture to enlarge.

	And these next three shots are when Grandad took J on the go-karts. This was easily the best thing at the Haven park. Click on picture to enlarge.
		You can't really see J here but he is there sat next to Grandad. Click on picture to enlarge.
	There were six individual go-karts and this one bigger 2-seater one that the younger kids could ride in with a grown-up. John said that this bigger one was slower than the individual ones, but it was still mint. Click on picture to enlarge.
		J spent some of his holiday money on a Batman utility belt, which I have to confess was pretty cool. This is J looking mean with it. Click on picture to enlarge.
	OK here we are on one of our days out during the holiday. This is me and Ry invading Lincoln Castle. Click on picture to enlarge.
		Here's J at Lincoln Castle. Click on picture to enlarge.
	This is a good one...it's Lucy, at Lucy Tower! Click on picture to enlarge.
		Ry at the tower. We climbed the steps and there's a burial ground at the top. Click on picture to enlarge.
	OK get ready for this. A very strange thing happened to us that day at Lincoln Castle. Me and J actually think we saw a ghost while we were there. Yes, I am completely serious about this. It happened in a building within the castle grounds called Cobb Tower. This is a picture of J pretending to be something nasty inside Cobb Tower, because it's a bit like a scary crypt or something. This was taken before it happened. Click on picture to enlarge.
		This was when it actually happened and we saw it. Unfortunately I didn't catch the actual manifestation on camera. I have however, drawn on a red arrow on this picture to show where it happened. What happened was, I saw what looked to me like an arm and a hand belonging to a person stood behind the pillar moving up and down. It lasted about two seconds. It looked just like someone was stood behind this pillar with their back to us moving their left hand up and down. Click on picture to enlarge.
	Unfortunately, as you can see from this shot, the pillar has no space behind it, it is joined to the back wall with a joining wall. So there is no way that anyone could have been stood behind it. This is secondary to the fact that there was noone else there with us. Now I could have probably have said that this was a trick of the light coming in this window here, apart from the fact that J said to me, as soon as it happened, that he saw an arm and a hand moving, which completely confirmed what I thought I had just seen. In my mind, I think that we saw a ghost in Cobb Tower that day. Click on picture to enlarge.
		Here's me being woken up by the kids in the caravan, first thing in the morning the following day. Great. Click on picture to enlarge.
	On this day we went to the Seal Sanctuary at Golden Sands, Mablethorpe. It was quite good actually. Didn't take any interesting pictures though. Click on picture to enlarge.
		This is a great picture of Lu and Ry, taken in our caravan. Click on picture to enlarge.
	On the last day of the holiday we went to Skegness, yeayyy. Click on picture to enlarge.
		Skegness beach. Click on picture to enlarge.
	This is J on the Runaway Train rollercoaster, at Skegness Pleasure Island. Looby's on there with him, but can't be seen in the angle of this picture. Click on picture to enlarge.
		Here's the boys in a Nasa space rocket. Click on picture to enlarge.
	J looking after Ry, as he does. Click on picture to enlarge.
		On the last day of the holiday I took the boys for a proper breakfast, a man's breakfast, at the holiday park diner. Click on picture to enlarge.
	It was here and then that we ran into Rory the Tiger, the Haven mascot. Good place to leave the update I think, see y'all next time. Click on picture to enlarge.