Embellish your World

Doing it for the chill (I mean thrill!)

A nice bit of  exercise we thought, a sunny day, no rain, barely a cloud in the sky and so off we set in search of a couple of Geocaches near where I grew up. The thrill of the search swimming through our veins, we arrived at the lake and followed our gps, successful in our search, but BOY WAS IT COLD!!

 

Fantastic autumn sunshine, great for photography, but useless for warmth. Time to dig out the thermals if I am going to continue these pursuits!  Still, our Robert was happy to have followed his virtual map and found the treasure, loved the sloshy muddy puddles and stomping through said areas in his wellington boots! I'm off with the children tomorrow and have requests for some messy time (translate to finger painting), McDonalds and more treasure seeking - hey, sounds like an inexpensive day off to me!!

 

Wot no water?

Crazy day today, no water since we awoke following a burst water pipe. Had to pop round to the shops to get a bottle to wash/clean teeth this morning and had hoped it would be on again before now! Luckily my in-laws were unaffected and so we popped round this evening, took advantage of cleaning facilities, ate dinner and filled every water-holdable vessel we could find to bring home!! It's crazy how much we take our water supply for granted, though I think my boys found it quite amusing filling up the guinea-pig and chicken water from a bottle of Buxton and not the tap! According to Thames Water we should be reconnected by the morning, fingers crossed! It would seem the lack of water today was more an adventure for my sons than our three mile geocache trek which saw us find our largest cache to date! Personally, I preferred the cache find over the perpetual humiliation every time I tried to flush the loo or turn on a tap today! Oh the simple pleasures in life!

Day 4 at the Blue house in the Cotswolds and whilst we may not have had an incredible amount of sunshine it has been warm and pleasant. The boys have enjoyed the timber trail not 2 minutes from the house, as well as kicking the ball about beside the lake. Eloise has clearly been inspired by her surroundings and is spending her time drawing with watercolours and pastels creating some beautiful pictures.

Tuesday we had free passes to attend the local holiday site with both an indoor and outdoor pool, the former with waterslides that we couldn’t keep the boys off!! Seriously Jamie is an utter adrenaline junkie steering around the twists and turns as if he were playing Mario Kart! We will more than likely return before we leave, just a shame you can’t take photographs in the pool area, how I wish I could capture their faces coming down the slides! After lunch on Tuesday Rob and I headed off for some Geocaching and managed to locate the two we went in search off. Sadly I also managed to lose my footing on some steps cut into a steep bank and sprained my ankle. It seems much better today after mostly resting it so I should be good to go for the 2mile walk tomorrow to capture six more caches!

Today we visited Cotswold Country Park and Beach for a few hours where there is the UK’s largest inland beach beside a beautiful lake. There was plenty to keep everyone amused for several hours, we enjoyed a nice picnic and I filled up my smallest memory card with photos!!

Needless to say we are having a very pleasant week away, relaxing and having much fun. I’ll leave you with my “wish you were here” card I designed recently and submitted for the Bo Bunny DT call. Seems appropriate!!