Holiday at Home

There are 2 bank holidays in May, but for some reason the decision in Scotland has been that we would forego the bank holiday at the beginning of the month and instead have both days together at the end of the month; this is how I ended up with a 4 day weekend.

Four days off and I decided to have a vacation at home, since I had so much planned for June.  I had some general plans, but it was all dependent on the weather.  

After I sent the post last week, the sun came out and it was warm and sunny.  I smiled as I walked the dogs without a jacket, but two long sleeve shirts to see all the kids on the beach in shorts running through the water.  It was not that warm.  However, that only lasted a day, and we had a nasty storm in the middle of the week with near freezing temperatures, gales and high seas.

But when I woke up on Saturday, everything was gorgeous.

After a fortifying breakfast, I headed off to shell beach.  I spent hours wandering along the edge of the water on the look out for teeny tiny sand dollars, which Jason assured me existed at shell beach.

I didn't find any sand dollars, but I managed two pockets of shells.  Of course, there were groatie buckies (not too many); teeny tiny shells; and lots of shells with pink and magenta in them.  There was this very cool magenta sea plant scattered across of the beach.

Once you figure out how to find groatie buckies, you do go on for other finds - hence the search for the tiny sand dollars.  There are also bits of red polka dot shell and I am on the look out for a whole shell, but didn't manage to find one on this trip.

After hours of hunting, I earned myself a cone of rum raison ice cream and a pokey ride home to make dinner.  Glass a wine and a catch-up with Gill on the phone and I end my first day of home vacation with Maggie curled in my lap as we watched Lord Sugar tell some dork that their 'fired.'