‘We could just buy a bus!’

says Ady perusing ebay 😆

Off to visit Helen, Alex and Abbie today on board their boat. I didn’t allow enough time to take the horrid school summer holiday traffic into account, particularly through hotspots such as Arundel, Chichester and the Witterings so what could be a half hour drive in light traffic or an hour in normal traffic turned into 90 minutes 🙁

The kettle was on when we got there though and while the kids fished off the side of the boat with nets, Helen (who is rapidly becomming my existing in a small living space consultant 😉 ) and I caught up and chatted.

We had lunch and then after a tour of their campervan – very cool, all now even more excited about living in one next year 🙂 – we walked down to the beach. Scarlett and Abbie crab hunted while Alex and Davies did ‘extreme coastal climbing’ as designed by Alex which involved working their way along the coast wall face through trees and undergrowth without touching the ground. It had eight levels and they made it to level six apparently. Much scratches and exhaustion later they assured us it was fun and worth it :).

Back to the boat for a cup of tea and some on board hide and seek for the kids (not at all sure it is the right location for that game) before realising it was nearly 5pm and time for us to be going. The drive home was not so bad and I made dinner for the kids before Ady got home.

A faffing about half hour between me asking the kids to get into pjs and clean hands, faces and teeth and then actually doing it led to a lecture from me about bedtime behaviour and then I read a chapter of Why the whales came before they went to bed.

We’ve spent the evening browsing ebay for camper vans, hence the title 🙂