A good day

Yay, went to bed fairly early and went off to sleep really easily as predicted after an evening of estuary air at Sarfend and a full belly of Sarfend's goodies! Unfortunately I was woken up by some loud noise and couldn't work out whether it was in my sleep or outside. Decided I didn't really care as sleep was more appealing than looking out the window to investigate and went back off to sleep again only to be woken again at 2.30am by a text from my youngest son on holiday in Florida. He had just found my text that I sent him earlier and forgot what time it was in England. So after answering him I took a bit of time going back off, but then I remembered that I had another three days off so who cares if I wake up late.

Took mother off to Gosfield Lake for a picnic armed with goodies to eat and magazines and to watch the water skiers and wake boarders doing their stuff. Really pleasant there. It was gorgeous when the sun came out and I felt really relaxed just in the sun watching the water sports and the ducks playing about on the lake. I have lovely memories of when the boys were little and we used to take them there with picnics. I could shut my eyes and could just see Dwight standing on the jetty poking at the water with a stick when he was about seven years old and then watching him twenty years later hurtling around on his wake board trying his hardest to stay on!
I think mother enjoyed it too. Thankfully she wasn't hurtling around with her zoomer frame strapped to a wake board, but just watching certainly gave her an appetite as she worked her way through three packs of sandwiches, some hot chicken pieces, various containers of fruit and lashings of lemonade!
We stopped off at my sisters on the way home and sat in their garden for a while with a cuppa and put the world to rights.

It was a good day today. A good way to spend a summer's afternoon.

Lots of love Debbie x