Bank Holiday Weekend

This weekend is the last three-day weekend of the summer in England. Everyone tries to go somewhere else for one last time because then school starts and you don't have another nice long break until the Christmas holidays.

My niece Georgia and her friend Zoe came to Reading for the Bank Holiday for the big Reading Festival -- zillions of people gather in a field to listen to rock music. One year Muse played -- I would have liked to have heard them.

But I would not like to spend a long weekend using Porta-potties and not having a shower and tromping around in mud.

That's the key thing about British bank holiday weekends. It always rains.

Here are the girls moments after they arrived at my house (in a downpour, of course). I just loved the way they came in and started furiously texting -- I don't think anyone uses a landline phone these days.