It was a great holiday, with fantastic weather - we had one shower of rain, lasting five minutes while we were in the car heading back to the cottage. Otherwise it was fine and dry all the time, with a lot of sunshine.

For those who don't know the Norfolk Broads, we stayed in a lovely cottage called The Nook at Potter Heigham. Because it's in a river valley, all the holiday homes (and some of them are permanent homes) are of wood construction, with the concrete piles going down forty feet. One of the oddest places is Dutch Tutch - it looks a bit like a windmill but is in fact an old helter skelter!

Over the course of the week we had a couple of meals out, went to various craft places (including a pottery and a candle maker), walked along Caister beach and spent many a relaxing hour sitting outside. For the second half of September, that's amazing. Dad got the chance to do some fishing, and it was really great to spend some time with Mark & Sam (my younger brother and his wife).

Picked up a bargain too - Return of Saturn by No Doubt (with bonus track) for £2.49. I've been looking for it online for ages, but that was a great price in Roy's of Wroxham.

So it was back to another pile of e-mail and lots of forums to catch up on. And some good news - a poem being published by Forward Press, and winning a prize in the pre-order competition for The Wild Bunch on C64. I also wrote some more poems while I was away - sitting in the lounge of the cottage looking out over the water inspired me.