WEEKEND DAY TRIPPIN'

After a fun-filled saturday with friends at Bristol Zoo's open-air film night and some well deserved mama time checking out Something Else with the lovely Oyster & Pearl and Little Green Shed, we decided to end the weekend on a high note with a bit of day trippin'.

Ever since our dear friends have mentioned their adventures in Woolacombe, I've been eager to discover it for myself. Only two hours down the motorway this beach promises stretches of white sands, cute colourful beach huts and hearty fish 'n' chips – how could I resist – we bundled in the car and headed south. 

As we negotiated our way through the bikini clad masses we found a small space at the bottom of a sand bank, in the hopes we might find shelter from the blazing sun. F was delighted and I felt myself unwind in the sea air. We spent the whole day digging holes, fetching sea water, jumping waves, spotting jellyfish, eating ice creams, squashing sand castles, catching up with a friend and watching the older kids body board.

We set off late back to Bristol, with an exhausted boy snoring from the back seat covered in a mixture of suntan lotion and sand. I lifted him out of the car and he wrapped his small arms around my neck and I nuzzled his salty hair, glad to have given him this day.

PARK LIFE

A long week has certainly been made sweeter with the blazing rays of summer shining down on us. Sometimes I take for granted this time I have with F, and it's all too easy through the fog of tiredness to be short tempered and to forget what it is he is doing. 

He is growing and fast. 

As we hang out at the park most people are replying to office emails or engaged in work meetings, ploughing through those eight hours before they get to head home. He laughs as I wriggle my toes in the sand and I am reminded that I have the best job in the world. 

This time that stretches before me is in fact short and not endless as some days feel. It will be all too soon before he is heading off to school where he will spend the majority of his time with friends and teachers and I will return to the real world of work. So for now I will watch him play, laugh, fall and hold his hand and be thankful for this park life.  

HERE COMES THE SUN

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Today the sun has risen its sleepy head and the feeling of summer is nearing as the temperature sneaks up to 20°C. Long days at the park with friends, BBQs, shorts and tees, melted ice creams and the obligatory seaside trip armed with buckets and spades are sure to follow. How much can you cram into a sunny weekend? 

A LONG WEEKEND

As we held our breath with the promise that the weekend would actually bring warmer weather, we tentatively headed out on Saturday morning with jeans and jumpers hauling with us the optimism of shorts and tee's. Picnic packed and armed with a barrage of toys, we found our favourite spot on The Downs. We made camp and spent a super five hours of lounging, eating, reading, snoozing, playing with balls/cars/trains/bubbles. The day rolled into the weekend and the sun stayed strong, what a difference vitamin D makes.