So I got out of Lothian and was in the Kingdom of Fife for a day! Jianming said St Andrews felt like Cambridge. Certainly there are the old town buildings and the oldest university in Scotland. But I felt that the similarity ends there. St Andrews has a beach and cathedral and castle ruins. It will never be a dead town when the students have gone home for the summer. Families are everywhere, at the beaches, at the play area, at the shopping streets. That's not to say I like St Andrews better. Of course I don't. Did I mention about GOLF? It goes to show how much interest we have in the game that we saw neither the famed Old Course nor the Golf Museum in the very home of Golf.
We finally got Ethan to take off his shoes and play in the sand and feel the waves lapping at his feet. But he went a bit overboard with the sand. Maybe next time we can bring him to the Portobello beach in Edinburgh. There really is no need to come all the way to St Andrews to enjoy the beach, is there? Even if it does have the Blue Flag award.
4 comments:
Hi RuiFang,
long time no speak to u though i occasionally say hi to jianming.
I read your blog occassionally to destress from work and my 2 kids (1 boy, 1 girl). Understand how u can feel being driven up the wall at times.
Hope to see your family soon back in Spore and perheps let our kids entertain themseleves with each other.
Lionel
Hi Lionel!
It's great to hear from you after so long!
I read other mummy (daddy?) blogs too to de-stress and also just to know I am not alone in all my ups and downs.
Yes, hope we can catch up with you and Xiaoming back home and the kids catch one another - maybe. :)
Take care!
whoa how come the car-seat looks so small (or rather, J is so big now!!), no space for him to stretch his legs heheheee
looks like they had fun in the sand n water! i haven quite mustered the courage to brg ah B to the beach yet cos thkg of the 'mess' w the sand she might make, any tips to keep the 'damage' to the minimal? lol
Xy: actually i had put Jethro a little too low down in the car seat, but he was asleep then and i really, really didn't want to move him too much! nevertheless, the car seat is getting rather small.
hmm, tips... no. they get dirty, Jethro even ate the sand. just wash them and their clothes at the end of the day. i was rather unwilling to get Ethan dirty before too becoz that would mean alot of washing up for me. but ever since he went to the nursery, there's no preventing it. i'd rather he gets dirty than gets all dainty abt rough play, so i dun make a fuss now abt him bringing all the dirt home. actually at the beach, they didn't really get very messy. just need to dust off the sand from their feet, hands and clothes. and Ethan, though he touched water, was quite dry by the time we got him out of the sand. i guess u can bring a set of spare clothes and towel to dry her (got toilets at sg beach usually), and maybe get her into swim wear so it's easier to clean. but kids her age may take time to get used to new sensation, so take it slow if need be. bring spades and bucket...
actually one reason Jethro was on the sand was that i felt rather bad abt him being cooped up in his buggy or sling whenever we went out. so, once an opportunity arose, i would let him move and stretch a bit. hence u can see pictures of him 'released' from his buggy in the cemetery even. :p
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