This will be brief because I can’t relive the grief!

Monday night I scheduled my second outing with Jill back down at Irvine beach – see “Life’s a Beach”. Sadly her hubby had forgotten to tell her that he was playing football and therefore she’d have to stay home and watch the kids. ‘Aye Right! – You aren’t getting off that easy!’ said and so I invited her to bring the kids so we could all have fun and a jog together!

Well, all the signs looked good – Jodie turned up to make sure I was coming and within a few minutes we were all loaded into the car heading down to Irvine.

It started off great, Jill and I jogging with the kids behind catching up and throwing the ball for the dogs…  but very quickly “are we nearly there yet” and “I’ve got sore feet can you carry me?”.

Thank goodness Jill was there and her training as a nursery teacher became evident as she got the kids to do a treasure hunt to find things to take to the recycling area or ‘art installation’ as I call it!

Jodie found a massive post that looked like a yellow pencil and amazingly she managed to carry it all the way along.  Robbie found a large yellow welly which I helped carry as it was almost as big as him!

When we reached the recycling the kids found lots of interesting things to fill their pockets with!

Then began the 1.5 miles of tantrum back to the car as Robbie got colder, the sun started to go down and we had to carry them part of the way back.

Thank the Lord for McDonalds hot chocolate which I used as a bribe to get back before darkness fell and helped thaw us out!

Very well done to Jill who’s sore blistered heel got worse because she managed to do 70% of the distance carrying Robbie as her weight training and she also managed jogging when she wasn’t carrying him.  Outstanding effort!