We went to Newmarket races and saw Madness as part of the fantastic 'Newmarket Nights'. I love going there, it's always such a lovely atmosphere, everyone gets all dressed up and the surroundings are lovely. The architecture is amazing and when you're standing in the stands at the Rowley Race Course you can see the lenght of the Devils Dyke running along the north side of the course. It has become one of my summer things to do now, last year I went with my sisters to Newmarket Nights and we saw Boyzone (not in the slightest embarrassed about that!). This time I made 2 little bets and lost a fiver lol! But made up for it by drinking lovely Pimms and being all posh in the Premier Enclosures ;) Madness were great to see and there was such a massive crowd....wonder what I'll go and see next year :)

After a really busy and intense week working hard on finishing off War Ditches history, fiting in makeovers and coping with lots of family stuff, especially my lovely granny who is still in hospital I managed to get a llittle break at the weekend. I went to London on saturday afternoon with Russ, we stayed in a hotel right next to the Tower of London and in the evening we went to Somerset House on The Strand to see one of my favorite musicians - Neil Hannon of Divine Comedy doing a solo Divine Comedy live show. It was fantastic, the music and performance was just brilliant topped off by the lovely surroundings of the great courtyard of Somerset house which was all lit up pretty :) We drunk Pimms and took some nice pictures. The next day we got buses down to Knightsbridge and went to Harrods where we looked at the little puppies in Pet Kingdom and I brought some Hello Kitty things for my girls from the Toy Land. We then walked round all of the food halls and brought some chocolates to bring home for the kids - We only got 8 single truffles and I won't tell you just how much they cost!!! I nearly fell over! ;) We stopped off at Trafalgar Square on the way back to the train station and got some lunch, it was such a nice warm summers day, I really, really needed that :)