Every night when the two boys go to bed they spend at least 15 minutes wrestling each other, despite multiple warnings and threats. They then get too hot, climb out of their sleeping bags and strip off their pj's before finally falling asleep. This would all be bearable if they didn't wake up in the middle of the night freezing cold! Neither of them have the sence to climb back into their sleeping bags when they wake up. Instead they moan and wail until I w...

We woke up to a beautiful sunny day and sat outside and had coffee looking at the ocean. As everyone was awake we decided to go for a long walk down the beach before breakfast and walked as far as the river inlet where there was a mass of enormous bats hanging in the trees lining the river. By the time we got home the wind had picked up and it was quite chilly. The kids didn't care though, so after breakfast we hit the beach for the morning. I didn't last t...