Plans Are Just About In Place And I Cannot Wait To Take Off
The last of the bank holidays prior to the festive season is nearly upon us and it’s time to decide what to do with it. This August we already know what we’re doing, at least for the first part of the morning as the 1st Mrs Izzard has an appointment at the hospital for her pre-treatment blood test leading up her next chemotherapy treatment on the 31st so that kind of rules out going out for the day.
As an alternative we shall go off somewhere on the Sunday and a journey out to the coast is a definite. A couple of years ago when our son was very young, we tried to go to the marvellous town of Barmouth on the Welsh west coast. We’d been there once on a camping holiday and had had a brilliant time as the site was very basic and allowed camp fires, so we had made a point of having a proper open fired barbeque on the Saturday night. It is a beautiful place to go to, not least for the trip which involves driving through the stunning ranges of the Snowdonia National Park. Alas, the last time we’d gone we hadn’t been able to get a place in the town to park so instead had driven further down the coast to Shell Island and spent a couple of hours on the beach, the first time that Will had seen the sea.
This year he is a little bit older and we will be able to go earlier and it’s likely that we will be going to Brean on the coast of North Somerset which is just south of Weston Super-Mare and we will try to get there early and spend the day on the beach. We will also look to buy a small kettle charcoal barbeque in order to make lunch and hope that we will be allowed to use it on the sands.
If we cannot and we are not able to set it up somewhere nearby, we can only hope that they have some sort of provision for a publicly available barbeque that we can use instead, maybe even to the extent of a gas barbeque which would be useful for the clear reason that once we’d finished we could just put it out, scrape the fat off and leave it for the next people. If we have to use a public charcoal barbeque then you have the difficult of making sure that it is completely extinguished before leaving it so that it is safe. And I think that a dim view would be taken if one was to just chuck a bucket of water over it as that would obviously make it harder for anyone wanting to use it later.
The obvious answer would just to be able to use our own kettle charcoal barbeque as we can just buy a paper bag of coals to burn, though I will have to remember to pack some matches as I no longer own a lighter since I gave up smoking in 2004. It would be useful to have a kettle gas barbeque but we just have the one size of gas bottle and it is really much too large to be portable.
I can’t wait to be honest. It’s been a dreadful of a year for us so far, and the opportunity to get away, even for the one day with an exciting early start, spend a day lying on a beach and going swimming with Will and making sandcastles is going to be a rare treat.
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