Not a particularly good combination for a harmonious morning! Despite their late night, all children were up reasonably early, although the preteens were the last, unsurprisingly. They mainly managed to play on moshi monsters – there was an attempt to play monopoly junior, but it was abandoned on the bedroom floor after not very long.
Adults pottered through the morning – I got the beach stuff through the wash so that UV suits and so on could be reused in the afternoon. Then we rounded up offspring and went down to Landguard Fort for an explore. We are really getting our moneys worth out of our EH membership this summer 🙂 This time we got all the kids in free (well, they are all family group, what with being cousins 🙂 ) and only had to pay for Bil. Tim splurged on the guide, which I started to glance through, then gave up as there was no way we were keeping up with the kids while I was reading!
Raced round the fort, which is very interesting, and I think we’ll do another visit sometime with fewer ppl. Don’t know whether the kids got much out of it, but I hope that something goes in at some point.
There was also an art exhibition underway which I rather enjoyed. Well, the bit I saw anyway!
Paid a very brief visit to the neighbouring nature reserve but various children decided they needed the toilet, so we went back into the fort to use the facilities and then headed off to the beach.
The blokes dropped me and the kids off and then took the cars back home. Tim went off to do shopping and Bil walked down to join us, sensibly stopping off to buy sausage rolls (and thoughtfully cheese and onion rolls 🙂 ) and drinks. I’d already got apples, so when the children had swum for a while, dug holes, run around like loonies and so on, we fed them as well. It was a very pleasant afternoon – good to spend some time with Bil chatting. I did try to read some of the fort guide, before he joined me, but decided that I probably needed to pay some attention to the children – visions of Bil arriving and me saying, well, they were there a minute ago! 😆
Small is getting very brave in the water now – he came back to me eventually with wet hair! He made me nervous a couple of times, but he isn’t actually going in very deep, only really to waist height, then he’s wave jumping. Good to see his confidence rising though.
Big spent some time digging with the boys, think she’s found it slightly difficult being between ages this weekend. Overall she’s managed fairly well though.
Brought them home eventually and there was more putering and game playing (Cranium Cadoo
, which always goes down well). Tim went out and fetched fish and chips for tea, yum, then we did actually put children to bed, as they were more than a little tired.
Small wobbled as he thought (correctly) that the older boys were staying up a little more drawing. At which point Scott made an excellent attempt at heading off further tantrums by appearing in the bedroom door and saying “we’re stopping drawing and going to bed now, goodnight”. Shame that that just moved the anguish on to wondering what they had drawn. Oh well.
Took Bil a while to get Princess settled down, but we did manage to have some time chatting as well. A good day all round.
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