holiday day two : someone sells sea shells

when we booked the holiday, there was sun in all the land. so much sun that we believed, foolishly, that it would never stop. we would have sun for all eternity.

as if

so when it, on the next day of our sun-filled holiday, did thusly rain, we were disappointed and surprised...

okay we were disappointed...

okay we got our jackets out of the bag.

APPARENTLY,

zerilda is picky!

this i have always suspected, but was never completely sure about.

we dandered up a side-street for lunch. doctor b says "will this do for lunch?" to which i responded "sure, whatever." he says "well, you're much pickier than i am, so i'm just asking."

just when i thought he wasn't really listening, he surprises me, for, by "whatever," he knew what i really meant was :

"this won't do at all, i don't think they have appropriate food here and what's more the décor is all wrong. not only will i not eat here but i won't let your children eat here. and to prove my point, i'm going to starve myself until you get it."

his question, after all, came right after his saying "i will absolutely not eat in a cafe!" which i love doing, but have only ever done with him when there was NOWHERE else to eat.

lunch was adequate. i didn't care for it, but because i am so picky, i ate something anyway, like i always do when he takes me and the kids to the pub for lunch.

so after dipping in and out of shops all day looking at stuff i didn't want to buy and then have to dust, the sun finally FOUGHT through the clouds. it didn't fight enough to get rid of the wind, but i don't think they are linked, actually. so we walked down to the beach, but did not unzip our jackets. AAAH the holiday memories.

but while we were just walking along the beachline, emma, quilly, and dapoppins were finding some shells! before long, we had quite a collection!

before long, emma had made quite a poem for us. dapoppins was suggesting all sorts of alternative uses for the shells. but we forgot to bring glue. pity.

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but that's not all. kim was getting quite a collection over near the rocks!



but those shells had to be cleaned, as did all the extra guests. sand is really hard to get off, though, and gosh, i think some of the girls felt violated...

but i was gentle. ish.


one nice thing i have discovered on this holiday : peach schnaaps plus ibuprofen makes me briefly forget my pinched-nerve-related pain.

and "my pickiness."

notes:
1 : those damn things would *not* stand up in the wind.