Marguerite
Active Member
G'day, people.
We've just had a perfect summer day family picnic. It was not our whole family, it was me, husband and mother in law, with easy child 2/difficult child 2, SIL2 and his family. difficult child 3 was technically present, but had found himself a seat in the back of the shed and spent the day on his computer. We had to go fetch him to come and eat and say hello to people.
We were at the train track, it was the annual Christmas party, but in reality, it's like a collection of friends each at their own picnic table. There were a few trains running, including husband driving a train for a while. There were some vintage cars there also. easy child 2/difficult child 2 had a lovely time following her toddler niece around (BIL2's sister's baby). mother in law & I had a lovely time talking to BIL2's mother. She especially loved the chance to look around, wants to come back again.
After my time yesterday at the beach, today's sun exposure has definitely pushed me into mild sunburn. But I will be out of the sun tomorrow (meeting at school) and some rain has been forecast for Tuesday (I think that's when Oprah is filming - and they will be outdoors!) I'm not really burnt, just a little reddened. Not sore, and it will be brown in the morning. Extra moisturiser for a few days, and I will be fine. They say the temperatures were about 26 C (78 F) but it felt a lot hotter than that. The beaches were packed as we drove home past them, even though it was late afternoon by then.
We had a lovely barbecue lunch and picnic, we managed to keep our table in deep shade by moving it every hour or so. My sunburn came about because I was going here and there, including standing around talking to people. I did have my special Aussie wrap hat, but it was too hot to wear it, so I took it off. I can feel my face glowing a bit. Thankfully, not too bad. husband & I are about to anoint one another with aloe vera.
The only one with absolutely no sunburn is difficult child 3. That's because he actually stayed indoors all day!
Enjoy your Sunday.
Marg
We've just had a perfect summer day family picnic. It was not our whole family, it was me, husband and mother in law, with easy child 2/difficult child 2, SIL2 and his family. difficult child 3 was technically present, but had found himself a seat in the back of the shed and spent the day on his computer. We had to go fetch him to come and eat and say hello to people.
We were at the train track, it was the annual Christmas party, but in reality, it's like a collection of friends each at their own picnic table. There were a few trains running, including husband driving a train for a while. There were some vintage cars there also. easy child 2/difficult child 2 had a lovely time following her toddler niece around (BIL2's sister's baby). mother in law & I had a lovely time talking to BIL2's mother. She especially loved the chance to look around, wants to come back again.
After my time yesterday at the beach, today's sun exposure has definitely pushed me into mild sunburn. But I will be out of the sun tomorrow (meeting at school) and some rain has been forecast for Tuesday (I think that's when Oprah is filming - and they will be outdoors!) I'm not really burnt, just a little reddened. Not sore, and it will be brown in the morning. Extra moisturiser for a few days, and I will be fine. They say the temperatures were about 26 C (78 F) but it felt a lot hotter than that. The beaches were packed as we drove home past them, even though it was late afternoon by then.
We had a lovely barbecue lunch and picnic, we managed to keep our table in deep shade by moving it every hour or so. My sunburn came about because I was going here and there, including standing around talking to people. I did have my special Aussie wrap hat, but it was too hot to wear it, so I took it off. I can feel my face glowing a bit. Thankfully, not too bad. husband & I are about to anoint one another with aloe vera.
The only one with absolutely no sunburn is difficult child 3. That's because he actually stayed indoors all day!
Enjoy your Sunday.
Marg