A weekend with the family for a change

Today has been lovely. And yesterday was relaxing as well. And there are only nineteen days to go till I leave my job!

In case you are not in the UK, we have had a heatwave these past few days. And in order to let the kids make the most of this, we put out the paddling pools yesterday. One is fairly small and we stick a slide onto the side of it, which does make it unstable, but so far, they have yet to get it to fall over. So they climb up the ladder and slide down into the pool making a huge splash when they hit the water. We used it like this last week when we had friends round. And like last week, the other much bigger pool was used. Though not as full as it was last Sunday! During this time, which has been the first weekend (when we were not on holiday) in ages that I have not been working at least one day, my wife and I relaxed while doing a few things. She did a bit of gardening while I had to transfer all my contacts from my old mobile to my new one.

Come the end of the day, the kids were shattered, but we all relaxed. And then today we went to Mersea. Yesterday the kids had a pool, today the sea and loads of sand. I did refuse to make any castles but did take them on several trips to the water to fill up buckets for use on the beach where we sat and either watched them or the sea.

Anyway, they are in bed now. For those who are reading this from abroad, take care and I hope you like these posts.