I'll be away from the 21st till the 26th of August.  Time to go enjoy the company of the people I'm related to in a group setting with rules intended to prevent us from killing each other.  Otherwise known as a family reunion.  I am actually looking forward to it. Really.  Last time when I said to my Hubby "never ever let me go to one of those again" I didn't really mean it.  Honest. This time all our parents are to be seperated at all times and not let within 5 metres of each other.  And each of us is responsible at all times for their behaviour...if they get out of hand we must take them away.  For my Irish family its sometimes better if we visit from a bit of a distance.  There is lots of animosity between my mom, Eileen, and her siblings and her siblings with each other as well.  So all the cousins band together to keep the peace.  I'm sure it'll go better this time.  No one is allowed to bring cast iron frying pans for instance.  That's a given after Uncle Allan and Uncle Phillip had the frying pan/whiskey bottle incident.  And we all know there's no way we can prevent Uncle Phillip from leaving the whiskey at home so extra measures are being taken to keep him occupied. 

Well that's probably too much detail just to let you know I'll be away, but as I was saying to someone else recently; I should never be left alone with a keyboard and too much coffee late at night.