Whilst my home life has been exciting because I’ve moved house, my work life has been fairly normal and I’ve been working on the education pack. If I’m honest, I’m rather relieved about that because I don’t think I could deal with too much going on at once! This month, the excitement has all been in Sinead’s camp, where she’s managed to combine home and work in great bundle.

As part of Gypsy, Roma, Traveller History Month, Sinead and her husband, Rory took their vardo to Newport in South Wales, where Rory ran a wagon painting workshop. Although their vardo would originally have been drawn by a horse, they transport it places on the back of a trailer. Still, getting a vardo from deepest, darkest Suffolk across the Severn to Wales, via an event in Surrey, is a bit of an undertaking.

It started at 4am on a Tuesday morning!

After spending the day at an family fun day in Surrey, they moved on to camp in a woods between Hungerford and Wantage, but were on their way early again on Wednesday morning. Having made it to the mouth of the Severn, they pitched camp on a deserted track and were able to relax looking out over the river. How idyllic does that sound?

The next morning they headed to Newport for an event at the Riverside Theatre. Here, Rory ran a wagon painting workshop and Sinead showed anyone who was interested around the vardo. It was a shame that she couldn’t enjoy so many of the events that were happening at the theatre, but showing off the vardo is always fun. That evening they headed for home, pitching camp close to Buntingford at 11:30 at night but were back on the road again by 6:30 the next morning, and home later that day.

What a great trip! I hope that everyone who saw the vardo thought that it was great, too.

Enjoy the fabulous summer weather, make sure to use sunscreen, and let’s see how Andy Murray does at Wimbledon.

– Daniela