Half Term Summer Fun

Today is the first day back at school for Beth after a week off for half term. It seemed to fly by, probably because the weather was nice and we had lots of plans.

A lot of the time was spent in the garden in the new paddling pool (Beth wearing her new swimming cossie), eating ice creams and playing on the Fifi sprinkler mat.

We got in visits to both sets of grandparents. At grandma and grandpa's a digger turned up, much to Toby's delight, to fill the hole outside their house. The rest of the day was spent in the sandpit and paddling pool. Unfortunately they both burnt their bums since we lotioned them up before they decided to totally strip off and it never occurred to us to reapply! At gran and grandad's the paddling pool was broken out along with the bubbles.

We had a couple of days catching up with friends we hadn't seen for ages. On Wednesday we met up with Carl and his family at Clumber Park and had a lovely picnic in the sun. Even though Beth and Carl haven't seen each other for a long while, it only took a couple of minutes before they were off together with Toby and Mo tagging along joining in the fun.

On Friday we met up with Maisie and her family at Thrybergh County Park and Reservoir. Again it was a beautiful day and the kids had great fun in the two playgrounds chasing each other around. We found a quiet spot to eat our picnic and blow some bubbles before continuing at break-neck speed around the park.

Back at home we are a little late with our planting. Our kind neighbour gave us some of his spare tomato plants, six went into a newly cleared bed in the back garden and Beth planted two tumblers in Toby's old wellie boots. Hopefully we'll get around to planting our sunflowers this week though I'm not quite sure where they will go - our garden is a little wild at the moment!