So That Was October

So that was October and the end of the year is now nigh with the darker nights closing in. It has been a month of mixed emotions but through it all the little ones have kept us smiling even if the little man has more energy than the Duracell Bunny on steroids. Debbie has had a very bad month but things happen for a reason even if we don't understand why. As we move into November I am hopeing things will brighten up.
With Debbie not being well we have not really done much this month to write about, lots of house work and spring cleaning so nothing exciting. I have taken the little ones out a fair bit to get them out of Debbie's hair. It is great, if hard work, having days out with them. Beth is good as gold but William likes to try and escape and manages to get quite a speed up when he runs off.

Living where we do we are fortunate to have the Tarka trail so close, especially at this time of year as we can have a nice walk and look at all the nice colours in the trees. Only slight downside is that Beth likes to pick up the leaves which is OK until she starts putting them in my pockets so that we can take them home.

The weather has been pretty lousy but we have had a few nice days. Last Friday was gorgeous so I took the little ones and my niece down the beach for an impromptu picnic. Before I left I was a bit worried as everyone said I was brave taking three little ones out to the beach by myself but they were all good as gold. We had the picnic on Northem Burrows, a lesson learned from my previous picnic. Better to have a picnic on Grass as on the beach sand gets everywhere and a Sand-sandwich is quite unpleasant. Anyway we had a nice picnic sat on a hill overlooking the beach. The little ones had a nice run around as I sat and chilled with a couple of cans of apple juice (Strongbow), then it was down to the beach for lessons in building sand castles.

Once the sandcastles were made we then had a long trek to the sea (Anyone that knows Westward Ho! will understand) so that we could go paddling, needless to say the little ones thoroughly enjoyed themselves.As we move into November I am once again determined to make more of an effort at writing my blog as I know people read it. The blogger programme has a Stats section which shows how many people have viewed the Blog and in which countries they viewed it from. I just hope that I can make it interesting so people do read it.