Holiday in Swanage

The kitchen staff at the Swanage Youth Hostel were astounded at the amount of food that Theo could eat in the all-you-can-eat buffet breakfast.  They had a wide choice and it was all very nice.  My brother Gerard once was serving Spaghetti Bolognese to Theo when he was 11 and theo kept saying load more on and Gerard kept loading.  Gerard bet him $50 that he would not be able to eat it all and lost the bet.  It was a stunning amount of food and Theo was and still is very skinny.  $50 is a lot of money to give to an 11 year old but eventually Gerard paid up.  I do not think that anyone has ever challenged Theo to an eating competition since.  The Swanage YHA may change their rules.
Swanage is the perfect holiday place, the weather was terrific (see the photos down the page).  The beaches are very nice and there are fossils in the rocks that you are encouraged to find.  We hada  fun time picking up slabs of rock and prising apart the layers to reveal ancient shells.  While there, a new lot of rock fell down (luckily noone hurt) and people rushed to the scene to look for dinosaurs.  I suppose that is why it is a good place to go, the cliffs are constantly falling down revealing new old stuff.  We came home with quite a haul and now have to decide what to do with it.  Currently it is in two boxes in the hall way.  We need a cabinet for these curiousities.