Bake on!

Still baking

Still eating.

Sea side

One of the commonest threads linking most of the days of the summer holidays (for the children at least) is going to the beach. They're in the water every time we go down and most of the beaches have been right on the doorstep. Now that the water's really warm (by comparison) we're all swimming in the sea regularly.

Even if it's not too sunny, they've been playing in the waves and generally having an awesome time. These ones are taken from when we were at Petit Port with Jack & Harry:

And of course there's alot of jumping off the rocks (as you'd expect):

You can never miss with the beach. Always a winner.

I wocup

Cara and Jonah have been writing diaries over the summer hols, partly to keep a record that they can look back on in years gone by and partly to keep some vague link with the school work that they don't have over the break.
Jonah's writing some genuinely good stuff, really funny and engaging. Cara's drawings are completely awesome. Perhaps we'll get round to scanning in some of the entries before long.

Regatta '09

So we all went down to the Regatta and the weather was awful. Still. there was a decent crowd throughout the day and the kids joined in and even came 1st (equal) in the sandcastle competition (out of 2):

The kids went off with Grandma so that the parents could carry on helping out and doing the bay swim etc. All in all a good day, if a little cold and long.

(That last one is Lenny shortly before the swim)

Jethou

In an attempt to catch up with family blogging, here's a few images of our "recent" trip to Jethou. Grandma bought us a trip to the island when the National Trust were granted permission to go there with a group of visitors.

Much as you'd expect, it's a small island which takes an hour or so to walk around (even with small children). But it is relatively untouched and it's quite something to sit on top of an island that no one usually gets access to. Needless to say, it's beautiful there.