ahhh bimbling

This weekend, Sara met the infamous Fil. He lead us on a very.... exciting? bimble. It was a gorgeous day.. the sun was shining, the breeze was blowing and it was crisp. We ambled out with Jakers on Sara's back, Madigan on my back and Michael pushing Maeve in the all terrain buggy. Neil and Fil were left to carry their own sorry hides altho we did offer Neil a ride in the stroller! Well we walked and talked and had lots of fun until... duh duh duhhhhhhh our bimble home was obstructed by a 'creek' that has grown substantially thanks to all the rain. Fil lead us bravely to where there should have been some sort of bridge or safe crossing. Sadly, this was not to be. Much head scratching and plan making brought us to the new plan. New plan was to climb over crumbling fence surrounded by briars! Awesome you say? Why yes.. as Jakers and Maeve were asleep. I wish I had taken pictures of us unstrapping sleeping children, passing them over briar fence, then hauling our buns over with Fil to guide us/balance us across. Then of course there was the stroller.. ahh the joy.. Michael, Neil and Fil all took one for the team getting muddy and soggy to get that darned thing across! Merrily we sloshed through several farmer's penned in fields, scaled a few more fences and finally made it to the bridge to cross the torrent that was the creek! Home again home again jiggety jigg where many beers we did swigget swig.. well, the adults not the children!






Pics are from our day saturday wandering around Leamington Spa. I am aware that I put a less than flattering picture of myself on the blog with my eyes closed and looking very 'retired' as Borat would say, but pics of all of us as a fam are few and far between! I put the last one of Madigan in there to prove she isn't carried all the time!!!!