Firstly to commentage:

With regards to my recently completed Pack Holiday,
Glad it went well. Did 'arry Potta cope with it all?! love mad xxxHe coped very well despite saying he needed 200g of chocolate a day to survive living with a load of females I only saw him eat about 8 lumps. He was very good I thought ... I'll take him again (but would he go again?)

... on the same subject from 'arry Potta himself:
So what did the Brownies think?
They brownies it would seem didn't want to leave on Sunday. One of my brownies even wore the neckers we made in Hogwart house colours to school on the Monday! (and Brownies last night). I managed to forget the photos I'd printed out so the Brownies haven't seen them yet. They were also singing the campfire songs they had learnt whilst doing activities and raving about all the stuff they'd done to the non-PH Brownies. I've not been asked when the next one is but I feel its only a matter of time!

On other matters today I was sent the following which made me chuckle (apologies to those who've seen this before)
Following complaints made to the IRB about the All Blacks being allowed to motivate themselves by performing the 'Haka' before their games, other nations were asked to suggest pre-match rituals of their own. The IRB Rugby World Cup 2003 Organising Committee has now agreed to the following
pre-match displays:

The England team will Morris Dance and whine in a threatening manner.

The Scotland team will chant "You lookin' at me Jimmy?" before smashing an
Iron Bru bottle over their opponents' heads.

The Ireland team will split into two, with the Southern half performing a Riverdance, while the Northerners march the Traditional route from their dressing room to the pitch, via their opponents dressing
room.

Unfortunately the Committee were unable to accept the Welsh suggestion following representations from the RSPCA.

Argentina will unexpectedly invade a small part of opposition territory, claim it as their own "Las In-Goals-Areas" and then be forcibly
removed by the English, Scottish and Welsh teams.

Two members of the South African team will claim to be more important Than the other 13 whom they will imprison between the posts whilst they claim the rest of the pitch for themselves.

The Americans will not attend until almost full time. In future years they will amend the records to show that they were in fact the most important team in the tournament and
Hollywood will make a film called 'Saving No.8 Lyle'.

Five of the Canadian team will sing La Marseillaise and hold the rest Of the team to ransom.

The Italian team will arrive in Armani gear, sexually harass the female stewards and then run away, only to pop up later having joined the other
team.

The Spanish will sneak into the other half of the pitch, strip it back to the gravel base and then claim that it was all in line with European "grass quotas". They will then curl up under the posts and have a kip until half time.

The Japanese will attempt to strengthen their team by offering good salaries to the key opposition players and then run around the pitch at high speed in a highly efficient manner before buying the ground and ultimately the cup.

The French will declare they have new scientific evidence that the opposition are in fact all mad. They will then park lorries across the halfway line, let sheep loose in the opposition half (much to the delight of Wales!) and burn the officials.

The Australians will have a barbie before negotiating lucrative singing and TV contracts in the UK. They will then invite all their mates to come and live with them in Shepherd's Bush.

and whilst out on site this afternoon we had those words we dread 'Are you from the council?' and there we had to stand for about 30mins (in the increasing colder weather) whilst a local resident tried to tell us his engineering solutions and the reasons for all that is wrong with Pompey. ... this is why you should never stand for too long in one spot when on site visits.