Thursday 20th September 2012 – 'Spread' (264/366)

The Boy has been quite disturbed at around 5 o'clock every morning lately. This morning neither of us could deal with it, and as he was sobbing about how he wanted his sandwiches back, he was having a nightmare and needed a cwtch. Mr. TBaM brought him into bed with us and he cuddled up in my arms. After 45 minutes of being prodded in the face with his elbow, I let him settle in the middle of us and turned over to get an hour's sleep before the alarm went off. Mr. TBaM was under orders to turn it off straight away so as not to disturb The Boy, and when we both sat up to get to it quickly, The Boy stretched out. Clearly we weren't going to be sneaking an extra five minutes in!

Country Kids: At Home With Coombe Mill

We've come for a short break down to Coombe Mill for a few days and I have to say that I think I've found paradise on Earth! Having been to a few places that have Scandinavian lodges as their accommodation, it is refreshing to come to a similar place but with the difference that this has the great outdoors as the entertainment and what an outdoors it is.

This thirty acre site has a beautiful and melodic river running through it which is the soundtrack to our stay, a plethora of children's play areas for different abilities and desires, and the most fantastic animal farm we've seen.

Yesterday we had fun exploring the play areas…

… including some twilight trampoline jumping!

Today we set off after a hearty breakfast to enjoy the feed run. I'll admit I was sceptical about this as The Boy has always been apprehensive about animals, especially those which are similar in size to him, so I expected lots of, "Can you carry me?!"

However…

… he even told us he uncurled the pig's tail!

But for him the best bit of the day was this…

… under a small amount of direction, he was genuinely steering this tractor!

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