Camping #1

Unfortunately Charlie and Thomas were poorly this weekend so couldn't make the inaugural Tymawr-Farm Lads and Dads camping weekend. Now rearranged for the 8th September - looking forward to going to Usk Show (www.uskshow.co.uk/) during the day and camping with Charlie, Huw, Thomas & Owen in the evening!

Earlier in the week I had cleared the path through the woodland.

At about 4PM, I loaded up the wheelbarrow with our camping stuff, and Jo loaded up the pushchair with the children, and we walked up to our camp site.

After we'd got organised, put the tent up and arranged our stuff, Mummy and Kate went back home and left the boys to make a fire and have their tea!  Using extremely rusty skills, still well remembered from the Cubs & Scouts (www.scouts.org.uk) I constructed a fire using dead, fallen wood from some Sycamore and Oak trees in the field.

3 or 4 matches and half of the local free paper later we had a beautiful fire burning merrily away.

I cooked sausage and beans for our tea (disappointingly Ben was much more interested in eating the Peppa Pig (www.peppapig.com/) cakes that he'd made with Jo earlier in the day, but its the thought that counts).  Then we went for a walk through the field, and on our return we were visited by some curious Alpacas!

Then we walked though the woodland and spotted some Ash, Birch, Oak and Rowan trees in addition to the great old Perry Pear tree, unfortunately together with lots of 'weed' trees like Elder and Hazel!  Along the way we stopped at the pond - another one of my giant list of future projects!

Then we went back to our campsite for our hot chocolate, got into our pyjamas and went to bed.  After about a half an hour of excited jumping up and down on his air bed and on me, Ben drank his milk and fell asleep.  It was 7:10 PM!