Holy Moly I am Slack!!! June 11 - June 21
Well last week was by all accounts very quiet.
On Sunday the 11 we with met up with Luke and Belinda in a pub to celebrate Luke's birthday. And went to Nando's after that for dinner.
My work was soooooo quiet, I was soooooo bored
I didn't play netball on Tues 15 because the mixed had a bye and i took the opportunity not to play women's to rest my shin splints. I am not supposed to play netball for three weeks to let them recover - ha! We'll see :)
Otherwise it was pretty quiet until Friday night. Of course we filled in the gaps watching the world cup. On Friday Luke and Belinda came around for a sleep over - We went to the Redback for some dancing, before getting a relatively early night. We were going camping in the morning.
The next day we got an early start to Eastbourne, our destination was a little campsite on Pevensey Bay just east of Eastbourne. We left early and arrived in the village of Pevensey in time to have brunch at probably the only cafe in the village. It was packed and did not disappoint. After that we found the campsite and set up our tents. Andy had taken the good tents to Germany (he is there wathcing the world cup) so we were stuck with the slightly less good ones... :) They were waterproof so what more could you want.
The main reason that we chose this as our destination was to checky out Beachy Head, some beautiful white chalk cliffs, it did not disappoint. We found the path and walked along the cliffside up to a couple of the veiwing points. It was a glorious day, (we all got a little pink) but the veiws were well worth it. Some very steep bits though, almost made us wish we had driven to the top parking spot :)
The afternoon was spent recuperating on the pebbly beach at Eastbourne, the boys thought breifly about going swimming, and credit to Luke for actually getting in, but the water was very cold, Duncan didn't get past his ankles. That is a lot more than i can say - i didn't get off the towel :). I do have to mention how much I like pebble beaches, no sand blowing around and no sand in your unmentionables, and the pebbles are actually quite comfortable to lie on.
We headed back to Pevensey bay and got fish and chips, which we took down to the beach to eat. It was unanimous that this was the best and freshest fish we had all had since coming to the UK, however the Poms do seem to insist on having their chips soggy.
We had a few goodnight drinks around the campfire (campfire = two candles bought at the local supermarket), before Belinda and I retired. Dunc and Luke stayed up for another couple of hours burning stuff.... apparently you can get quite a good flame out of a dorrito chip......
It wasn't the best nights sleep that we had had, not because it was hot or uncomfortable but because the two little girls in tent next to us would not shut up, especially around 4:30-5 in the morning......
The next morning we went back to the same cafe for the same breakfast and again it did not disappoint. We hit a local car boot sale, and stocked up on reading material before taking in the ruins of Pevensey castle.
Feeling all pretty tired by this point we headed back to London stopping only at a PYO strawberry patch. We filled a couple of baskets and headed home - we had our priorities straight, and had to get back before the football started.
Work this last week so far has been much busier thank goodness, it was getting so frustrating only having 3 patients on the ward each day to split between two therapists and a student. My contract is coming to an end so as well as working i have been job hunting.
Our big news is of course on Monday Gordon and Mark arrived. Yay!!! It was so good to see them. We met them at the airport and they are staying with us at the moment while sorting out places to live and work etc.
Thanks to my mum for sending some clothes, some chicken salt and some much missed Strawberry fredos...mmmmm.... they were so delicious. Keep them coming :)
Thanks to Dunc's mum for sending chrissy presents, i promise i won't look at them til then :)
Well I must go and rescue the poor pigeon in the garden who is being stalked by Stitch. Hope everyone is well
lots of love
Gemma (&Duncan)
PS we have the photos of our camping trip up
On Sunday the 11 we with met up with Luke and Belinda in a pub to celebrate Luke's birthday. And went to Nando's after that for dinner.
My work was soooooo quiet, I was soooooo bored
I didn't play netball on Tues 15 because the mixed had a bye and i took the opportunity not to play women's to rest my shin splints. I am not supposed to play netball for three weeks to let them recover - ha! We'll see :)
Otherwise it was pretty quiet until Friday night. Of course we filled in the gaps watching the world cup. On Friday Luke and Belinda came around for a sleep over - We went to the Redback for some dancing, before getting a relatively early night. We were going camping in the morning.
The next day we got an early start to Eastbourne, our destination was a little campsite on Pevensey Bay just east of Eastbourne. We left early and arrived in the village of Pevensey in time to have brunch at probably the only cafe in the village. It was packed and did not disappoint. After that we found the campsite and set up our tents. Andy had taken the good tents to Germany (he is there wathcing the world cup) so we were stuck with the slightly less good ones... :) They were waterproof so what more could you want.
The main reason that we chose this as our destination was to checky out Beachy Head, some beautiful white chalk cliffs, it did not disappoint. We found the path and walked along the cliffside up to a couple of the veiwing points. It was a glorious day, (we all got a little pink) but the veiws were well worth it. Some very steep bits though, almost made us wish we had driven to the top parking spot :)
The afternoon was spent recuperating on the pebbly beach at Eastbourne, the boys thought breifly about going swimming, and credit to Luke for actually getting in, but the water was very cold, Duncan didn't get past his ankles. That is a lot more than i can say - i didn't get off the towel :). I do have to mention how much I like pebble beaches, no sand blowing around and no sand in your unmentionables, and the pebbles are actually quite comfortable to lie on.
We headed back to Pevensey bay and got fish and chips, which we took down to the beach to eat. It was unanimous that this was the best and freshest fish we had all had since coming to the UK, however the Poms do seem to insist on having their chips soggy.
We had a few goodnight drinks around the campfire (campfire = two candles bought at the local supermarket), before Belinda and I retired. Dunc and Luke stayed up for another couple of hours burning stuff.... apparently you can get quite a good flame out of a dorrito chip......
It wasn't the best nights sleep that we had had, not because it was hot or uncomfortable but because the two little girls in tent next to us would not shut up, especially around 4:30-5 in the morning......
The next morning we went back to the same cafe for the same breakfast and again it did not disappoint. We hit a local car boot sale, and stocked up on reading material before taking in the ruins of Pevensey castle.
Feeling all pretty tired by this point we headed back to London stopping only at a PYO strawberry patch. We filled a couple of baskets and headed home - we had our priorities straight, and had to get back before the football started.
Work this last week so far has been much busier thank goodness, it was getting so frustrating only having 3 patients on the ward each day to split between two therapists and a student. My contract is coming to an end so as well as working i have been job hunting.
Our big news is of course on Monday Gordon and Mark arrived. Yay!!! It was so good to see them. We met them at the airport and they are staying with us at the moment while sorting out places to live and work etc.
Thanks to my mum for sending some clothes, some chicken salt and some much missed Strawberry fredos...mmmmm.... they were so delicious. Keep them coming :)
Thanks to Dunc's mum for sending chrissy presents, i promise i won't look at them til then :)
Well I must go and rescue the poor pigeon in the garden who is being stalked by Stitch. Hope everyone is well
lots of love
Gemma (&Duncan)
PS we have the photos of our camping trip up
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1 Comments:
12 days without an update, Holy Moly things must be becoming hum drum!!!
Love ya both
Dad
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