Southwold

The weather remains fine and sunny...for a whole week. We will no doubt shortly be declaring water rationing and drought. Everything is suddenly GREEN. all the trees now have leaves and the grass is growing - seems like several inches a day. Since it was such a beautiful day on Saturday we drove 2 hours to the beach at Southwold on the Norfolk coast, about 10miles south of Yarmouth.


Kids had a blast - 6 hours swimming and playing on the beach then fish and chips on the pier before all melting down and being unable to agree on whether to drive 2hrs home or find somewhere to stay the night at the coast.

This is the bit of beach we lobbed up at to start with - turned out there was more sand the other side of the pier, but when you havent been to the beach for 9 months (and you are 8 or 10 years old) you pretty much just have to make the straightest line from the car to the sand with no mucking about to find the best bit!

The water was absolutely freezing, and as you can see the beach has a few too many rocks for comfort. When little M turned blue we walked along past the pier for a mile or so until they found a place to bury J.

Of course when they saw the Morgan in the photo they had to have a picture 'for Grandpa'.

There is a possibility we will be going to Southwold for a few days at half term with some of the kids school friends. Big M is off travelling again at the end of the week and we have some friends coming to York who we hope to catch up with later in the month.