"... but it's not dark Mummy!!!"

... yes that is the phrase which has come back to bite me on my (ever increasing in size) bum isn't it?  So Spring has sprung those clocks forward and so getting Ella to bed when it is still light is a very interesting process. Never mind. She'll get used to it.

Well what a fun packed weekend we had! It had it's ups and downs and that is for sure. Firstly my sister in law's car broke down before the Boundy's had even left (she was picking it up from the garage at the time after having the bumper repaired!) and then at 1pm I had a message from the Cottage hire company to say our cottage was flooded and they had to find us some more accomodation... 

To cut a long story short - they did - and it was pretty horrible.  We had treated ourselves to somewhere special, it wasn't cheap.  Where as where we ended up was not something special and should have been cheap!  But the good ol' PM in me got straight on the phone (payphone  - no signal) on Saturday morning and with a long process of them calling me back (it is not fun waiting for a call back in a phone box) I managed to get them to agree a 50% refund!  Wooo hooo.. 

Saturday ended up a lovely, lovely day.  We took Ella and her 2 cousins to the beach and they just all ran into the sea up to their bums.  They had a lovely time.  We then spent the rest of the day in Salcombe.  Which really is one of the most stunning places on earth.

Family friends, Richard and Judy (... not the ones of the telly) came around for desert and cheese and biscuits in the evening, I have known them forever and so it was lovely to see them! 


We rounded off the weekend with a quick visit one of my best buddies in Taunton and then had supper in Heston's Little Chef at Popham which was actually really yummy...   

Really looking forward to the weekend already... simply because we don't really have much planned and, of course, it is Mothers Day on Sunday which is always great.  Maybe some dinner / lunch out is in order as Greg has just come home with our new Taste of London card today BUT it is now simply called the Taste card. I would really recommend it.  Especially as they seem to be doing some great offer at the moment.

Ok off to cook dinner.  This is a rare, rare thing in this house so I have to try and give it some attention... even if it is just putting pie in the oven!