The last few weeks have seen really good weather which coincided with some time away.

Early in the year we booked a long weekend in North Devon at the Tarka Holiday Park, which is just on the outskirts of Barnstaple. It was one of those £10.00 per person holidays from the local newspaper and was the second such offer we have taken this year.

The park is quite small but was really nice, with a rather rickety but very friendly clubhouse which I popped into one night. Roaming free-range were the resident chickens which Heidi liked and with sunny weather meant we had a good time. In fact, the caravan heated up too much during the day which I suppose is a good thing, as it was a bit chilly at night times.

We met up with my colleague Paul, who lives not far away and visited Bude. Again a sunny day which was finished off with a barbecue in the back garden.

The last few days have seen us Weymouth where we stayed on their £29.00 per room deal which was good. The weather was sunny, though is now getting noticeably cooler – should be really as its October. Still seems like summer to me.

No cooking for us, so that meant eating out in child-friendly places, timed by Heidi’s small but expectant stomach. Having a Brewers Fayre next door meant things were easy at the end of the day. No having to find a microwave or other heat-source to make her grub as she had to eat whatever we were eating which we try and do as much as possible. The only problem we had is keeping milk cool, so resorted to small cartons of UHT full fat milk which she was happy with.

Thursday night saw her enjoy some whitebait of mine plus Rachel’s lasagne and garlic bread. Whilst in Weymouth the following day Heidi dabbled with some of my black pudding but she was not keen on that.

Our last night was a really nice curry for me and Rachel and Heidi had the tomato and vegetable pasta – again a hit with Heidi. I have discovered she loves poppadoms which is a good thing.

Once back, it is return to the same routine and back to work tomorrow. Hopefully Heidi likes her little jaunts around the south west and beyond and she certainly is more fun now and developing all sorts of peculiar traits.

Still big on waving and smiling at strangers as we go by, she has now perfected the handshaking greeting…..