Today, most uncharacteristically, I dressed up like a toddler.  Or Lu dressed up like a grandmother; I don’t know.  Anyway, we’d seen the same shirt in both our sizes in Tesco at the beginning of the holiday, and today we wore them.  Strange behaviour…

So having dressed like something out of Little House on the Prairie (actually, probably more like the Dukes of Hazzard, given the outfits concerned) we went and played skittles in the garden for a happy half an hour before they all set off to the beach.

The plan was for the family to take themselves directly to the beach while I prepped for and did my interview; and then for us all to go to Geevor Tin Mine and Pendeen Lighthouse this afternoon.  So I got to sit in the sunshine at the cottage, this morning, making copious notes and then re-making them, and then having a telephone call in which I suspect I mostly waffled and didn’t make the most of my copious notes at all….

And then I went and found the kids at the beach.  And there we stayed, for a final day in Sennen Cove.  Lunch at the Old Success Inn, and an afternoon in the sand.  All week, we have been making Lu sandcastles, and all week she’s delighted in destroying them (which is at least *part* of the fun of them, right?!) so today, when she’d made pancakes of our elaborate sand village, James commented that it looked a bit like a boat.  So I made her a sand boat.  Reader, it was a *mahoosive* success! And she sat in the boat, and played row, row, row your boat for most of the rest of the afternoon.

So now we’re back at the cottage, packing everything up and trying to work out how we got it all here, and tomorrow we will set off for home. It’s been a wonderful week, revisiting family holidays and reminding myself how exhausting tiny people can be. I’m so glad we came back to such wonderful old haunts – I hope it won’t be another 15 years before I’m back again!