Our Bank Holiday Weekend (August 2013) #Flashback Friday

For once last bank holiday weekend was dry and sunny and there was no rain in sight huzzah!

Saturday afternoon the boys and I visited Hartland Abbey for a private event – a summer extravaganza no less – laid on by the company my friend’s daughter works for.  It was a family fun day with a Victorian theme (aswell as bouncy castles and face painting which is more 21st century than 19th!), and there was a Punch and Judy show, boat swings and some old fashioned games including a test your strength monitor complete with hammer and a bell! These forms of entertainment certainly brough back come childhood memories for me – ones I had forgotten about really. I recall having a go in boat swings with my brother at some seaside destination when we were children – possibly Weymouth and / or Barry Island and the test your strength -o’meters were always a feature at funfairs during my childhood. I don’t remember if I actually liked Punch and Judy shows as a child, but I do have memories of watching one on Weymouth beach when I was 10 and not thinking

much of it!! However, Burton and Jenson really enjoyed watching the Punch and Judy show on Saturday and were pointing and shouting and laughing through the 30 minute performance. It’s funny because I did know the script, ie. the sausages and the crocodile and the stick that they all hit each other with!

I think Saturday goes to show that despite all the mod cons of today and the high tech games that our children are exposed too, and the sophistciated and so called PC forms of entertainment shown on childrens television, kids today still enjoy forms of entertainment popular with generations before them. Punch and Judy with its stick hitting is no differnt to cartoons like Tom and Jerry really, and again was something I found hilarious as a child.  All the children who sat through that Punch and Judy show thoroughly enjoyed it and so did the grown ups!!

Monday was a gorgeous day again and we decided Sunday night that we would go to the beach. After packing a picnic we stopped off en route at Sainsburys to buy a wetsuit for Burton to enable him to go swimming in the sea, and  we arrived at Instow beach at about 11am. Straight away we headed down to the sea as the tide was going out. The water was warm and the boys and their daddy went on in, while I stayed near the edge with my jeans rolled up!

Burton did swim in the sea with his Daddy for quite a while as his new wetsuit kept him warm, and I managed to film a few seconds worth – I could not film for longer because my phone memory was too full!!

That’s another thing to tick off the 50 Things List too!

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