Boxing Day at the beach

Christmas day night as my husband, David and I were about to retire. I had a brain wave. I went and checked that we had enough sausages and bacon about the place and suggested to David, that we could have breakfast a bit later in the morning, having a good old English fry up and thus skip lunch and get out for a good walk with the children and dogs. 

Wikin & sons Ltd Brown Sauce

I don't often do a good old English fry up. We don't tend to eat very much fried found, but as an occasional treat it goes down a real treat. I do like a bit of Brown sauce along with my fry up and rather than HP Brown sauce, which is made now in Holland. I like a Brown sauce that I consider is head and tails above HP sauce in texture and taste and it is still made in the UK by Wilkin and Sons Ltd based at Tiptree, Essex, England. You can find this Brown sauce in most supermarkets and if you have not tried it yet and like Brown sauce, you won't be disappointed.  
So we had our hearty breakfast just after 10 am, this morning, got the dogs that were not coming with us run out and the house chores done, and then set off for Saunton Sands beach just after 2 pm with Millie and her Granddaughters, Blottie and Bumble in tow.

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Our daughter, Florrie looking at Blottie and Bumble running towards Crow Point

Where we live it is on the side of the Taw Valley and our home sits in what locally we refer to as ,'the lew of the hill.' The word 'lew' in this case comes from Old English ​meaning “warm, sunny, sheltered”and often I can leave our home with hardly a breeze in my face to walk just above our home and be nearly blown over, as was the case today at home it hardly seemed much of a breeze, but at the beach it was really blowing, it was dry and mild though. Got a few photos of the dogs running about and some lovely landscape photos with the low Winter sun coming through the clouds. 

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Very,

very,

I also got a bit of video footage, which you can hear how blustery it was, which did have a positive of only the hardcore walkers out, so it was not to busy on the beach. I do consider myself very lucky to live where I do. It is amazing how many people live in the UK, travel all over the world, but never realise the beauty they have on their own doorstep. Mind you this does come from someone who can stand in the shower and watch water running through their hand transfixed for some considerable time, occupied with thoughts of where that water has been in its billions of years of existence, only being knocked from my thoughts, by someone else shouting, "How much longer are you going to be?" Travel has many forms. Hope every one is enjoying the holidays, I'm back milking the cows tomorrow morning, which is sort of a bit of a rest.
P.S, I do say,' "Shit" a couple times in the video and that is because I forgot whilst concentrating on videoing, that I was just wearing dealer boots not welly boots and I nearly get caught by the tide coming in over my dealer boots, which are not water proof. 

sleepy heads, Blottie and Bumble after their beach run