We’re now officially on holiday. But due to it being Fathers Day tomorrow, an effort to stretch finances and knowing that my parents will sulk if we are away for that we are not going on holiday until Monday. The plan if the weather remains halfway decent is to head to Dorset on Monday and camp for a couple of nights. I’ve an eye on Tom’s Field for that but we’ll just turn up and hope for the best. We want to visit Corfe castle so the children can get the whole Enid Blyton experience and just enjoy Dorset, then we’ll head to Cornwall on Wednesday where I have another couple of campsites jotted down and we’ll again hope for the best. We have Eden Project tickets from Tesco clubcard points so that is our plan on Thursday or Friday before heading home again on Saturday. There are various NT places and we have guide books for Dorset and Cornwall so we’ll make our way in finding things to do as we go along. I had got half a plan to visit Stone Henge on the way back but have realised doing that on 21st June is probably not a great plan! 😆 I’m really hoping for good weather and the relaxing getting away from it all-ness that good camping provides.
Today I’ve worked the morning while Ady and the children did various things in the garden including mending the windbreak that took such a battering on the cliff top campsite in Swanage that finally finished off the Crap Tent last summer. I got home at lunchtime feeling a bit rough (suffering with hayfever, a slightly dodgy stomach and general not-right-ed-ness) and was imediately came at from all angles with Ady and both children trying to tell me things and demand my attention. The children settled down to do more painting and pastels, Scarlett spent some time putting make up on me and Ady and I attempted to plan our packing strategy. We decided we really needed a new table to replace the fold up picnic bench and (unusable for adults anyway) chairs and Ady found one for under a tenner online at Woolworths and tracked one down at the local branch and had it put by.
Scarlett and I went to Tescos for barbecue food for tomorrow, camping essentials like small jars of peanut butter, ketchup and marmite and then collected the table on the way home too. Very pleased with it, it’ll be perfect for camping and come in handy indoors too for those table moments that we’re always having round here ;). Down the back streets back to the house I let Scarlett change gear as she was sitting in the front with me and it was merely from 1-3 and back again on empty roads. The worst that could have happened was crunched gears. Both the children are fascinated with driving and very keen to learn how although from their examples of proficiency at Legoland driving school and again at the stand at Ardingly their steering leaves a lot to be desired so there is no chance of them being ready for at least the next 10 and 12 years :lol:.
Ady cooked their tea, I had a bath which both of them got in with me and then we watched Doctor Who and they made fathers day cards for Ady for tomorrow. Scarlett continued to be delicate, I’m sure it is merely a combination of small things and I have been deliberately tough on bad behaviour from her lately which seems to have worked as she is proving less challenging but perhaps slightly more needy emotionally, so being able to have an hour or so off with just her today was nice. She spent ages brushing my hair when we got out of the bath and telling me how much she loves being like me and wants to be like me when she grows up :). Not at all sure which bits of me she wants to be like but I’m very aware that a daughter thinking her mother is wonderful and wanting to be just like her is a very limited period only happening so I’m making the most of it while it lasts before she realises the error of her ways and starts to blame me for all that is wrong in the world, her life, hates me and puts a hex on anyone even daring to suggest she is anything like her mother! 😆