Camp Bestival

After last year's extreme mud, we decided to give Glastonbury a miss this year and try out a new, much smaller festival designed with families in mind - Camp Bestival, at Lulworth Castle.

It did pretty much what it said on the tin - there was lots of stuff for kids to do, even at George's age. (Although I was disappointed with his lack of commitment to the many craft activities on offer, meaning that we only came away with a very poor tea cup hat and a really quite impressive plaster cupcake.)

But he had a great time running around the kids' field, between the toddler area and the bouncy castle and the steel drum and the tightrope (which he liked to grab hold of and swing from when other, older children, were halfway across). His biggest regrets were not being able to go on the swingboats, and not being allowed to stay in the Shisha tent.