Calm before the Storm

 It was a lovely, bright, sunny day today. No cloud dared to sully the blue skies as the Gorse Fox left to meet with Urban-Cub and walk Ellie round to Dizzy Ducklings. It was chilly, but it was gorgeous.

Once home, the Gorse Fox returned to the Family Tree. The changed, suggested yesterday by the author of the plug-in, had to be rolled out and the Gorse Fox needed to review some of the other charts and diagrams that were available from Family Tree Maker and could be displayed using the plug-in. With a few selected to start the process the Gorse Fox rebut a couple of the web pages. The files displayed beautifully. The only problem could be how responsive they are. That is something that will have to be monitored.

As Urban-Cub had a day off today, her pain was to take Ellie down to the seafront after Dizzy Ducklings. We were invited along so the Gorse Fox decided it was a good opportunity for a walk. He set off to walk to the beach and meet up with the others there. It was a lovely day for a walk, warm enough to be pleasant, and cool enough to be refreshing.

The Gorse Fox arrived just as the girls were walking towards the playground.

Ellie, as usual, was like a whirling dervish as she raced from one item of apparatus to another. In the end, she settled on the swings - for all of about 3 minutes. Then she charged off again to the slide and the climbing frame.

She got bored. She wanted to go down onto the sand. We hoicked the buggy and ourselves over the pebbles and down onto the beach. 

It took a couple of minutes for her to prepare her bucket, but then we were off down to the shoreline where she scooped sand and seawater into the bucket and deposited it a few feet away.

 When she had had enough and wanted an ice cream, we all traipsed back up to the Esplanade, hauling ourselves up the huge bank of pebbles. 

Ellie, Urban-Cub, and the Silver Vixen stopped by the ice cream stand, the Gorse Fox wasn't too fussed (it takes great self-control to maintain a physique such as his !!!). He took this as an opportunity to start his walk back home.

It had been a lovely little interlude in a gorgeous day. Given that we have severe weather warnings for the next couple of days, it was a case of taking the opportunity while it was there.