We are home after having the best summer ever! Was so sad to this leave this morning :-(
Our rather sad looking pitch when we left this morning........
We had one week in Somerset and four weeks local so Mark can travel to work from the caravan. We have a little portable twin tub washing machine and rotary washing line so can wash clothes and bed clothes. We took the halogen oven to save using the gas hob which was very useful. In the one week we were at Somerset we left the beds up the whole time and in the four weeks we stayed local we only put the beds away twice, once on a rainy day and the second time on Friday after the awning had been taken down. We have spent most of our time outside.
Anais and Roman have enjoyed riding their bikes, picking plums and walnuts, helping do the gardening, Anais has learned how to crochet granny squares, Roman enjoys making creations with his K'Nex. We have spent a lot of time outdoors and are very brown. Can honestly say in the five weeks we spent in the caravan we haven't been bored once, we took lots of things to do to keep us occupied.
Everything is so much simpler in the caravan, hardly any washing up - 4 cups, 4 plates, 4 dishes etc...... Some days we only had to wash up once a day at the end of tea. No housework, no hoovering, hardly any ironing. The TV only went on for half an hour before bed so the kids could settle down, otherwise it was turned OFF! Even using the twin tub washing machine seemed more of a novelty than a chore.
Anais and Roman have enjoyed riding their bikes, picking plums and walnuts, helping do the gardening, Anais has learned how to crochet granny squares, Roman enjoys making creations with his K'Nex. We have spent a lot of time outdoors and are very brown. Can honestly say in the five weeks we spent in the caravan we haven't been bored once, we took lots of things to do to keep us occupied.
Everything is so much simpler in the caravan, hardly any washing up - 4 cups, 4 plates, 4 dishes etc...... Some days we only had to wash up once a day at the end of tea. No housework, no hoovering, hardly any ironing. The TV only went on for half an hour before bed so the kids could settle down, otherwise it was turned OFF! Even using the twin tub washing machine seemed more of a novelty than a chore.
Here is Roman playing his K'Nex violin!
He enjoys making lots of creations with this and is very imaginative. His favourite thing is making rockets!
He enjoys making lots of creations with this and is very imaginative. His favourite thing is making rockets!
Here are the granny squares Anais has done so far. She can now do them all by herself with no help from me and connect the wool to start new rounds in different colours by herself too.
I have been very busy since we got back, the washing can wait until the kids go back to school and we are still not unpacked yet everything has been thrown upstairs for the time being.
I had a go at cooking the beetroots, never used them this fresh before, usually buy them pre prepared!
I followed Elaine's instructions, twist the top off, wash them and boil them for an hour. After an hour wash them under the cold tap and the skin will come off easily, no colour bleeding either. They smelt lovely and are ready to be roasted tomorrow with a butternut squash. I have the confidence now to buy them fresh and cook from raw again.
I had a go at cooking the beetroots, never used them this fresh before, usually buy them pre prepared!
I followed Elaine's instructions, twist the top off, wash them and boil them for an hour. After an hour wash them under the cold tap and the skin will come off easily, no colour bleeding either. They smelt lovely and are ready to be roasted tomorrow with a butternut squash. I have the confidence now to buy them fresh and cook from raw again.
With the big bag of plums I made four plum crumbles for the freezer. Didn't have time to do any apple crumbles with the cooking apples so thats another job for when the kids are back at school.
I made Mark a birthday cake.
This was a Betty Crocker mix and icing as I was going to make this in the caravan but we came home a day early. On the plus side I got to use my new butterfly icing cutters and made 40 butterflies - one for each of his 40 years!
The butterflies were placed on the bars between a cooling rack to give them a 3D shape.
This was a Betty Crocker mix and icing as I was going to make this in the caravan but we came home a day early. On the plus side I got to use my new butterfly icing cutters and made 40 butterflies - one for each of his 40 years!
The butterflies were placed on the bars between a cooling rack to give them a 3D shape.
Only one of our tomato plants produced any tomato's. We have four! Not enough to make ketchup what Roman wanted to do and not enough for a cheese and tomato sandwich but we can eat one each and try again next year!
Here is the "pencil case" I crocheted for Anais. It fit the speakers to Mark's tablet perfectly though so he has claimed it instead! I sewed a row of single crochet to it to tie it together and put fluffy pom poms on the end.
Anais and Roman painted these sun catchers while we were away. Romans is the giraffe and Anais is the flip flops.
Here is Roman helping to strim the grass around the awning (its cordless and he was supervised!)
On the plus side of being home I am enjoying having a dishwasher again, hand washing up has taken a toll on my hands. I am also liking having Absolute 80's radio back and unlimited fast internet use!
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