There are advantages to there
not being a heat wave and ferocious sunshine in the holidays. I’ve hardly had
to use any sun screen at all so far! So I haven’t been worrying about sunburn.
The small hardy souls have
braved the sea a few times, but the wind hasn’t seemed to drop for the past
week so there are always waves. Sometimes big ones – but they love going out
then swimming in with the waves behind them which is something I used to love
to do – and still do. But it’s nerve racking watching them.
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| Brrr - warmer than it looks |
I don’t know why, but the sea
always seems warmer when it’s rough.
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| Sunnier but still rough |
We went to the Colne Valley
Railway. We hadn’t been for several years and I thought with them being older
now that they’d be disappointed (they asked to go), but they had a lovely time.
We went on a steam day, but they liked riding on the little mini train more
than on the steam train.
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| Colne Valley Railway |
We stopped going once there
were four as going back and forth over the railway bridge used to be nerve racking
with toddlers and buggies. When I saw the bridge, it seemed much smaller than I
remembered – it was twice as big in my memory. And now it’s possible to cross
the line without going over the bridge – but of course they wanted to go over
it! We did cross the line once, but even that I found nerve racking.
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| The bridge from the mini train |
Tomorrow we’re going to the
pool so there won’t be any waves to worry about, but slippery pool floors…. Nerve
racking.
I even worry when we go crabbing that one of them might accidentally throw themselves in or scrape their legs on the wall as they climb down to the ledge. How many times did I hurl myself in by mistake? None! Where do I get my daft ideas from? I have no idea.
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| Crabbing |
I’m sure my nerves never used
to be so racked when I was a parent of small children and they certainly weren’t
when I was a child. I didn’t worry about getting dragged out to sea or slipping
over at the pool or falling down the steps of the old railway bridge and they
shouldn’t either. That’s my job.
The hardest thing of all is not letting my racked nerves show and pretending I'm as fearless as they are.
And another thing – I always
thought it was nerve wracking, but from Googling, I think it may be nerve
racking. As if my nerves aren’t racked enough!
But I am enjoying the school holidays, doing things I did as a child and as a young mum and reviving memories while making new ones. It's worth a few racked nerves.
