The day started early - we were all woken by a tremendous storm at 5.30. To be fair it had been raging from midnight and continued until gone 10am but it must have been particularly bad at 5.30. Isabella was really being battered by the 50mph winds and the horizontal rain! I popped out to check all the pegs and then moved the car around to be between the prevailing wind (the south) and Isabella. As in the infamous Whitby storm this trick seemed to help!
So from 5.30am we had both twins in the bed. The night with Harry was equally as uncomfortable as the one with Finners. Finners lashes out with his legs once and extremely violently - like a Backstroke swimmer starting off - while Harry is persistent using all his limbs and continually pounding you like a front row forward trying to get the ball. To say which one is better is a ridiculous concept like asking someone if they prefer tooth ache or stomach ache.
The funny thing is if you think of all the weather Brunnehilda has had to withstand over the last 12 months it would bring tears to you eyes - thunderstorms, rainstorms and winds the like that I don't think I have ever experienced anything like before? And to think, that when we bought her we were wondering about getting air con!!!! I think we’ve only had a couple of days where we have had all the windows open!
We headed out to Bideford at 11am. That’s the great thing about Twinnies .... we’re always out and about fairly early. No leisurely cup of tea in bed, no lazy breakfast with omelette and coffee, no relaxed shower and ablutions!
The rain was due to last until 5 so Kim found an outlet shopping place called The Atlantic Village in Bideford. They had a Nike store and Charlie had money in his wallet! It wasn’t a great success. There wasn’t much there apart from an Asda and the Nike shop. We queued up for 45 mins in the drizzle to get in the Nike shop and then when Charlie and Kim got in, they had nothing on the shelves for children!! Kim did manage to get some bits from Weird Fish.
We grabbed a KFC and headed back to Brunnehilda via Sainos for the boys to buy more toys and DVDs and Charlie to buy a Nerf gun. 2 more guns were bought for the Twinnies so when we got back to camp they had some fun firing them at some random targets. Although the 2 that went onto our neighbour’s awning were not part of the plan!
Kim did some washing and then we headed out to Woolacombe for the evening. Crazy Golf at the Pirate Adventure Golf.
Then more ice creams and then a walk on Woolacombe beach where they managed to get absolutely soaked - rolling up trouser legs doesn’t work when you wade through rock pools up to your thighs!?
We bought some excellent pizza from Stoned (a van on the beach) and headed back to Brunnehilda to eat it.
A DVD in bed (Captain Underpants) for them and a cup of tea and blog / read in bed for us.
Finners will join us in bed tonight but the good news is that there doesn’t look like there is going to be any rain tonight/ tomorrow. Not much sun either but hey, no complaints here. After the last 24 hours, we’re just delighted to have, in the words of Barry Manilow, “made it through the night!
Oh by the way, to clear up a couple of things before finishing ... Charlie won the crazy golf - no idea how but his Grandma was scoring?!
Today’s funniest moment came on Woolacombe beach when Harry was so focused on eating his ice cream he didn’t realise the step down was so steep. Luckily he held onto the railing and went spiralling down it like batman going down the bat pole. To be fair to him, not one bit of ice cream was spilt but the look on his face was a picture!
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