Tomorrow we head off to Hesfes 2008 for the week. We went to Hesfest last year and had a great time, for a while it looked like we weren't going to be able to go this year, but lady luck was on our side and Steph got a new job which meant she could book the time off, and we could all go!

Hesfes is great family orientated event, short for the 'Home Educators Seaside Festival' it involves hundreds of Home Educators camping on a huge campsite, with lots of workshops and activities, along with live music and seminars on all aspects of home ed. As someone who was home educated along with both of my brothers (the younger of whom is also coming), it's a great oppurunity to catch up with some like-minded people, many of whom have a similar outlook on life. Our clans constsits of my parents, my younger brother Al, Steph, The Blonde Kid, and Me - there'll also be lots of other people we know on site.

Despite going to school The Blonde Kid had a brilliant time last year and made lots of friends, so much so that he was already talking about coming this year during the car journey home! We also came to an arrangement with the new school he started at last September that they will mark him as 'educated off site' (as opposed to an 'unauthorised absence') when we chose to take him out of school during term time for Home Ed events, which is great.

Steph and I will be blogging in varous forms whilst we're away (after all geeks take their techology on holiday with them!), so should you want to, you can track our activities below...

- See out photos on the joint Hesfes Moblog here (includes some of last year's photos).

- Follow our Twitter updates tagged '#hesfes08' here.

Check back for updates and 1000s of photos from Steph on our return!

(If you're twittering from Hesfes, follow the user @hashtags and include #hesfes08 in your tweets and they'll appear here.)

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