we will have had a little under two years in filey on the north yorkshire coast. we have loved living here and will miss being by the sea, but the time is right for a change.

simon will be starting a new job in february working for the united reformed church in their thames north synod. the job has a regional focus across east berks, south bucks, beds, herts, a bit of essex and all of london north of the thames.

we don’t know where we’ll be living yet, when we know we’ll let you know!

we won’t bore you with the details here, if you want to know more do get in touch.

here are some of our favourites:

my favourite:

the cafe was no grand affair but had amazing views of the beach.

on the way back abi tried out a new seaweed hair-do.

what i liked about the york art gallery, apart from being free to get in, was the interactive elements that children could participate in were throughout the galleries, not stuck away in a room where you can’t see or hear them.

we then took a boat ride. there’s not much to see of york from a boat. not worth an hour and not worth £20.

after some lunch came the highlight of our trip. we saw the wiggles live at the grand opera house. if you haven’t heard of them, the wiggles are australia’s biggest entertainment export, bigger then kylie!

here is a picture of him walking and one of his friends at the park after their toddle.

jake is on course to raise over £30 for the children’s society.

well done jake!

spent a few days camping on a site overlooking robin hood’s bay. a simple but excellent site with clean facilities. the whole campsite was on a slope but this meant everyone got a great view of the bay.

we spent some time on the beach at robin hood’s bay followed by dinner in a hotel in the village.

on sunday we went to staithes (more on this later) had lunch at a cracking bistro (which is up for sale) and visited staithes gallery and bought some art (well, postcards) then went to runswick bay, which is lovely.

more photos here.