The Couch!

India, Lottie, Danny and Hugh are sat on the big inflatable couch just about to get their bones shaken to within an inch of their life - they are so excited! To the right, on the shoreline is a group of worried Mums. I managed to talk myself into a place on the boat!

Blue skies and hot sun all day today, Abersochs famous microclimate was in full force, Mark rang to say it was raining at home. Heidi and I had slept in Lucy's new caravan so had a lovely relaxed breakfast with Lucy, Hugh and baby Hector. India had stayed at Janes with Lottie, Jessie and Julie's family too. Jane made the picnic and we were on the beach before midday applying sun cream liberally to the kids. We had an amazingly sunny day, happy children and happy mums. An old school friend of Angela's, Lisa spotted me in the cafe and we had a good catch up of the last 22 years!

The older children had spotted this huge inflatable sofa zooming up and down the bay yesterday so we treated them, the last half an hour wait meant the Mums were increasingly worried and the children increasingly hyped up! As they were getting on the man said, I'll spin them round for a photo, I said , I was hoping to go on the boat to take photos. He said if you get a life jacket you can. Queue the mad sprint up the beach to the sailing school and back, thank goodness for the gym making me fitter! We all got on and then my camera wouldn't work!! Some mysterious button must have been pressed, it was trying to do facial recognition whilst we were zooming round the bay at a million miles an hour so the action shots are all blurry. Anyway, they had the BEST time, they were holding on for dear life and bouncing right up in the air, screaming the whole time! It was great fun watching them.

We stayed on the beach until 6ish then back to the caravan, fed the kids, showered and into the car for the journey home as I have to work on Saturday. We were so sad to leave but are back again in summer for a week. I am so having a go on th couch with India when we're back!