No debate with Tilly about what to do - although to be fair, the boys accepted the suggested days activities without a hint of decent!
After breakfast we headed out to Seahouses. After filling up with petrol we parked on the sea road, just outside the village, and walked over the dunes to the beach.
Another difference was noticeable here - Tilly and I would have enjoyed a 3 mile walk along the beautiful beach to Bamburgh. The boys weren’t up for that but wanted to spend some time messing about on the sand / dunes before getting in the car and driving to Bamburgh.
Charlie went on his phone, the Twinnies chased around in the sea and on the sand and I went in for a swim.
Gee, I forgot how cold the North Sea is. Normally when you get in you get acclimatised relatively quickly and your body warms up. Not in the North Sea, I remained freezing for the whole 10 mins I was in!
The beach was busier than I’d seen it before but still very sparsely populated considering it was a sunny day in the middle of the school holidays.
After the 45 mins on the beach, we drove on to the car park just outside Bamburgh. It was quite a long walk over the dunes and then a short walk along the beach before the climb back over the dunes and upto the castle entrance.
We paid our entry and had a lovely couple of hours. Walking round the site, playing games on the grass, visiting the cafe and then a tour of the inside of the castle.
Another difference - dogs weren’t allowed into the castle. A visit to the cafe is less stressful with Tilly though. Harry wanted a ham sandwich. We got a round of ham and mustard. After I spent 10 mins scraping every grain of mustard off the sandwich, Harry refused to eat it saying he could still smell the mustard on the ham!!!
The visit was great fun though leaving us with another trek over the dunes to get back to the car park. Then onto Seahouses to buy fish and chips from my fave restaurant-The Neptune.
It didn’t disappoint. We took the grub home to Brunnehilda and ate it alfresco on the grass. Gee it was good - 4 very empty / clean plates.
After a bit of a rest we headed to our local beach at Dunstan Steads for a game of football golf. After that we went back to Brunnehilda for a games tournament - Cluster / Penalty Shoot Out / Sevens / Itchy Feet. Now what sort of grandad would I be if I won both the beach golf and the tournament? What sort of monster would beat his 3 grandsons and then boast about it in a blog? Well, I bloody well did - and enjoyed every moment!
The other main difference between Twinnies and Tilly are the questions! Not too many from Tilly but so so many from the 9 year olds. A lot of them very obscure and left field! Being deaf (as I am) you try and predict questions - that’s not something you can do with Twinnies as they don’t seem to follow any sort of logical thinking and can be as random as they are obscure!
The good news - the teenage shower went well. Charlie managed on the 3 minutes of hot water with no complaints. He also cooked himself some egg and bacon for breakfast - very impressed.
Less so with the Twinnies! I decided, being that they are nearly 10 years old, it was time they learnt to butter their own bloody toast. 25 years ad a trainer didn’t equip me for this challenge!! After a lot of watch and try, they did eventually butter and jam/ Bovril their toast - although they did go through half a slab of butter!
Another DVD after games night. It’s going to rain tomorrow!
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