More sun, more outings: 31 May, 1 June 2013

As tradition dictates, it rained most of the days of the school holiday.  By Thursday, the children were climbing the walls so as soon as I woke up on Friday and realised that it was sunny, I made a picnic and loaded the kids up into the car, direction Attingham Park.

I love living in Shropshire, I feel strong links to the places that surround where I live mainly because I have so many memories of visiting them as a child.  I remember vividly, Grandpa preparing individual picnics for us as children and going in their mini van on little adventures to Benthall, Ironbridge, Attingham, Hodnet and Bridgnorth. The nostalgia evokes feelings of love and happiness that we always felt with Grandpa and Nana Fenton.  We knew they loved us and they made up for the fact that we rarely saw our other grandparents.

It makes me smile every time I drive to Ironbridge and point to the house where Mummy lived and show the children the fields she played in or when I drive past Hampton Loade and think of Nana and Grandpa living there.  So taking the children to Attingham park was a real pleasure today as I reminisced about going there as a child.

On Saturday we got up early and drove to Ynyslas with our friends the Pollands.  We ran into the water, had a bbq (as usual, Mummy forgot to bring several things) but luckily, Hannah had remembered some of the things that I had forgotten so we all ate well.  Afterwards, we went and explored the sand dunes and had fun running down them full pelt (yes even the adults). Jason and Gareth had a jumping competition to see who could jump down them the furthest.  We rounded off the day with the Howlett tradition of fish and chips.

Family video here: