Butt Wash*

All slept well. Some of us even had a lie-in. Pancake breakfast (if only from a packet, not bad though) with lashings of fresh fruit and maple syrup started our day of lovely sunshine. A quick change and a grab of chairs, drinks, football, sunbrellas etc and we made our way to the beach.

It was pretty much deserted which enabled us to choose the premium spot today. We all played Jackers, and football. Huffle and I relaxed in our chairs and watched the boys go in the lake. Smallest had some bodyboarding lessons from Small (a little bossy but informative), though Smallest preferred to surf.

The sun was out and the breeze from the lake made the heat very bearable. However this meant that everyone else moved to the beach too. No-one will park their stuff near to us, both Huffle and I thought. Oh yes they will. Huffle thinks they look at us and think 'that looks like a family having fun, if we sit next to them we will have fun too'. So family after family joined us, smoked over us, shouted near us and sat on our sandcastles after doing what Huffle calls the illegal 'stop and chat'.

We had a full morning of beautiful sunshine so I went back to the house to get some lunch and brought it back to the beach. The sun went in for a few hours and it started to get quite cool, which put a lot of the families off and we were soon on the beach all by ourselves again. We sat it out, reading, playing, swimming and then suddenly the sun popped out again and it was really hot. The clouds gradually disappeared. We buried the boys in the sand until a lady who worked in the Coroners Office walked past and told us not to do it as she had seen cases of kids crushed to death! Morbid! We unburied them. Smallest has had many falls, twists and hurt bits today. All on the same leg he said!

We went for a long walk along the beach a couple of times and the boys and Huffle went off to get a pizza for dinner leaving me all alone on the deserted Beach. Poor me - peace and quiet. I blogged, photographed and generally watched the lake across to America. I even managed a wave to Brenda,Truly Scrumptious and MrGator.

Huffle smugly brought our pizza back to the beach as people were starting to casually wander back on to the beach. We tried to sit there until the sunset but the boys were tired and getting tetchy with each other.

We dragged ourselves away and walked back to the house. Everyone had eggy showers - the owner emailed us back and said there was nothing we or they could do about the smell. They changed the boiler but apparently it was the well. I can't believe how bad it is. Smallest asked if we could ask the people across the road if we could use theirs instead. Ha ha!

We did manage to see the sunset. It was amazing. Once the sun went down there were tiny black (silhouetted) shapes on the horizon. They seemed to move though Huffle said it was the sun moving and not them. Was it the other side? Was it Brenda waving back? Was it just clouds? Very strange.

*a woman and her small child walked past me today, she had just dunked them quickly in the lake and she said "Butt Wash!". Oh thanks for that then!

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