Well life in this house is never dull with so many of us. We came back from Dorset yesterday lunchtime and D, who has been down in Cornwall with her boyfriend and his family, came back Friday. She said to me she thought she had tonsillitis as she had had a sore throat since the beginning of the week and she is prone to it. I suggested she do a flow test just to rule covid out and, of course, it came up positive as did a second one. She has been and had a full PCR test this morning and we are awaiting the results. I don't honestly know if we will make it to the Lake District now - D's mental health is not great at the moment as she is anxious about going back to school and now having to isolate will not help, plus there's the risk that one of us may catch it from her.

 Anyway, back to Wednesday and we got away fairly early for Charmouth and were on our pitch by 11.30. We got ourselves all set up, had some lunch and then went down to the beach for the afternoon. I love Charmouth as it is just a village so unlike Teignmouth, near us, which gets really busy with holidaymakers Charmouth is always less so. We had a barbecue in the evening and played card games.

Thursday we woke up to mizzle so decided to go over to Lyme Regis for a wander. We walked all along the seafront and out to the cob stopping on the way back for coffees and hot chocolates in a lovely new cafe called Swim. We had a mooch around the shops and by then it was dry but overcast. We went back to camp and decided to go back down to the beach. There weren't many people down their as it was pretty blowy but the girls had great fun on their bodyboards with the waves and I sheltered in the beach tent with my book.  Late afternoon we went over to Bridport, had a wander around, and got some dinner. Afterwards we carried on to Westbay for another walk and ice creams so a very full day.

Friday, I had planned on a trip down memory so we up early with a packed lunch made and the beach bag packed. As a child we had several holidays at a little village called Ringstead Bay not far from Weymouth. This was a favourite place of my Dads and I haven't visited for probably 25  years. The village is a few miles off the main road and on the beach. It has about 30 houses which apart from a small handful are all holiday houses and a campsite. Facility wise it has a small toilet block and a small beach shop cum cafe. It was a truly wonderful day, the sun came out and the girls spent hours swimming and just relaxing. I have been wanting to go back there for about the last 5 years so it was great to finally tick it off my list. We came back, had another barbecue, and then had a nice walk down and around Charmouth before coming back for a glass of wine and more card games.

Saturday, we woke up to torrential rain which thankfully stopped whilst we were packing up but which meant yet again we came home with a lot of soggy kit. Luckily it has been sunny today so it is all now dried out and packed away. We had another really lovely short break away and now we just needs to see what the week ahead holds as far as D is concerned.