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By Little Mummy, August 11, 2009 12:31 pm

So as you may have gathered I’ve been away, Erin and I took a last minute trip down south to visit my brother with my Mum. We flew down to Bristol on Thursday morning and collected our car, a Skoda Fabia in case you’re interested. Mum took an instant disliking to it, we’re both short so require a decent driving position, a lower dash and low pedals. The Fabia has a high dash, high clutch and brake pedal and a low accelerator, so not great.

Nearly Killed a Man

She attached the sat nav, and off we went. My brother lives in a beautiful village called Lambourn where they train racehorses, very English and picturesque. To get there we needed to get out of Bristol and go on the M4, the route looked easy enough until the sat nav took us through Bristol city centre during the morning rush hour. The place was jammed and full of roundabouts and filters here and there. Well to cut a long story short before we knew it we were in the middle of a junction with a cyclist hurtling right into the side of us, I shouted to Mum and flailed my arms while she tried to pick up speed to clear the way, it was no good he hit the side of us, fortunately he’d seen us last second and slowed down and managed, barely, to remain on his bike. Of course we stopped to see if he was ok, he was breathless and shaking, apparently Mum had ran a red light. Neither of us can remember seeing any red light and we were watching and driving so slowly because of being in a strange area. However it was only us and him that had entered the junction so either we missed the light completely or went over just a tad to late and he was quick off the mark, who knows, the good news was that everyone was ok and Erin managed to sleep through it all.

Poker

Eventually we arrived safely and enjoyed fajitas and a game of poker, which I lost to my brother

Bournemouth

On Friday we headed to Bournemouth where we rode the carousel, collected shells, hooked ducks and ate candy floss. The sun shined.

Saturday

My brother picked up his new puppy ‘Cadie’, a border collie. Erin was smitten of course and chased her round the garden, she’s really good with animals, and it made me wonder how long it would be before we’re being nagged for a pet.

We also managed to squeeze in a visit to see my cousin and her children, another warm day we sat in the garden munching croissants while the kids played.

Sunday

Call me sad but I’ve been wanting to visit Bekonscot Model Village for ages, in fact the brochure has been sitting in the kitchen drawer for a couple of years. Sunday was a scorcher and we were able to wander at leisure, the village is 80 years old this year and still very popular. It’s quite a small place which seems to attract the yummy mummys, and lots of wasps, there is the model village itself which is smaller than I expected (the overall size, cos obviously I expected it to be small) a wooden play area, a carousel and snack shop and a ride on model railway. Erin seemed to be the perfect age for it and thoroughly enjoyed herself.