Beach days. 

Yesterday.

I went for a walk in the afternoon (I try to every day) and stopped in at a bundle of book, sorry, charity shops on the way. Books acquired? A few. Oops. And then the Works where I resisted a beautiful book on how to crochet a doll and all the accessories for it (This book: (affiliate link) My Crochet Doll: A fabulous crochet doll pattern with over 50 cute crochet doll clothes and accessories I may go back as it’s £4 in the Works) and flicked through a bunch of how tos and workbooks on CBT, mindfulness and meditation. Then instead of buying any of those, I went down to the beach and piled pebbles on each other to take photos. It was very relaxing, and quite meditative in its own way.

And it stopped raining on me, and the sun shone, which was good.

And today.

Today we managed to leave the house without it raining on us. Before we went out we read some of the very lovely picture books I picked up yesterday (which included the wonderful The Snow Leopard by Jackie Morris which has the most beautiful pictures in it and as Smallest observed, sounds like poetry. (affiliate link)

We got rid of some books (see, books *can* leave the house as well as coming in) and then went to Clarks where we discovered once again that my children’s feet don’t really grow in the winter. How *does* that work? And then we went to the Works for bubbles to blow on the beach, and oops, a book on how to crochet a doll 😉

And then we went to the beach where Smallest dug a moat and built a hill and Tigerboy blew bubbles and threw sand (gah) and I took photos (you’re surprised aren’t you?)

If I have tempted you to buy the crochet a doll book, here’s a handy the Works affiliate link.

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