Sunny happy days

How lucky are we?

To live by the sea?

And have friends who come to play?

The weather has been bright, without a cloud in sight,

and our happiness has been as plentiful as the daylight.

Moving house - Almost done!

The blog has been a bit neglected,

Because we have been busy moving house.

To a different island,

with different beaches,

which, of course, we have had to stop and explore.

There has been lots to do and think about.

This is our new view,

pretty awesome.

Our new garden.

A football playing hatchling,

did very well at his tournament.

And there has been

many a back garden football game

played on our new the shaggy lawn.

We are still adventuring,

lots of playing on the beach,

is this not

completely spectacular?

And look,

just across the water, see those tiny houses, well the one third from the left, with the white boat beside it...

that is our new home!

Well, we are digging our selves out of our house moving rut, and will be back sharing adventures.

And hopefully soon, I will do a series on our home renovations, because we have so much we want to do with this new place. 

Wishing you happy days.

New found beach - Yay!

We headed out for a drive,

past places we'd not visited for years.

Which is a shame really,

and here is what we found.

The sun has got his hat on

Hip hip hip hooray.

The sun has got his hat on and his coming out today.

The hatchlings sang this all morning as we drove down to the beach.

Golden sand? Yes, please!

'Why do we not have googles Mama! Sand hurts my eyes!'

Must not forget next time.

Though I'll leave his big sisters to discuss the fashion statement of snow boots and swim googles with him.

The girls worked up their tolerance 

for the cool water.

And the sky, kindly, stayed bright all morning.

I think, just maybe, I now have photographic evidence that I ought to encourage or at least remember to bring hair elastics... 

Nonetheless, it was a lovely morning.

The tide is out

and it is time to play.

What do you think we'll find today?

Clams of various sizes and shapes, whelks and limpets, and cockles in the sand.

This pair mostly caught a lot of sand, seaweed and wet. 

Lots of wet.

This hatchling found a little friend.

A young brown crab.

Now, he is named crabby. 

Hatchling no2 asks, 'Can we feed him up. Grow him into a big juicy crab, then we can eat him.'

She is pretty grounded this hatchling.

We found many cockles, but not the razor clams we thought would live in this area.

Nonetheless, it was a beautiful morning, well spent.