home :: 23 June 2008
OK here we are on our summer hols, at the Haven holiday park in Mablethorpe, on the Lincolnshire coast.
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We stayed in quite a posh caravan...
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...here it is.
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Here's Ry in the caravan.
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While we were there Looby's Mum and Dad and Big Nan came down to join us for a day.
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It was also Grandma's birthday.
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This is Grandad playing with the kids at the caravan.
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Here's J on a motorbike.
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...and again.
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This is me and J on the Orbiters.
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And these next three shots are when Grandad took J on the go-karts. This was easily the
best thing at the Haven park.
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You can't really see J here but he is there sat next to Grandad.
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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.
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J spent some of his holiday money on a Batman utility belt, which I have to confess was pretty cool.
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OK here we are on one of our days out during the holiday. This is me and Ry invading Lincoln Castle.
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Here's J at Lincoln Castle.
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This is a good one...it's Lucy, at Lucy Tower!
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Ry at the tower. We climbed the steps and there's a burial ground at the top.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Here's me being woken up by the kids in the caravan, first thing in the morning the following day. Great.
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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.
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This is a great picture of Lu and Ry, taken in our caravan.
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On the last day of the holiday we went to Skegness, yeayyy.
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Skegness beach.
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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.
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Here's the boys in a Nasa space rocket.
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J looking after Ry, as he does.
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On the last day of the holiday I took the boys for a proper breakfast, a man's breakfast, at the holiday
park diner.
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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.
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