Joni-O

"The swallows swooping across blue skies gave a hint of summer promise and the weather played its part on what turned out to be a beautiful Bank Holiday Monday for some parts of the UK..." - isn't that refreshingly different? We had beautiful bank holiday weather! Usually, bank holidays have a knack of turning out dull and wet, of course the Tuesday after a bank holiday, which people will be looking out upon from behind office windows, usually turns out beautiful. So the weather and the weather-man got it right this time!

We had a great day actually, I suspended revision and spent the day on the beach with the whole family - Mum, Dad, Abi and Des and Bev and the kids - and my little crowd too. Joni just loves the beach, like any kid I suppose, she's fearless though and you have to watch her: one minute she'll be shovelling sand into a bucket and the next time you look her little legs have carried her half way to the sea and you're chasing her across the beach...I meant to bring my camera down but I forgot it, however I did snap some in the house before we went down. Here's two, and a funny story: we got a Chocolate milkshake from McDonalds the other day, and Bex was drinking it in the car, and sharing it around, but Joni wanted it from Bex as soon as she took it back, and she let her know so too - "Mummy, mummy! More! Some! Some! Peas!" (please) ... then a pause, then, in an accusing tone, as if Mummy was being a very naughty girl, "MU-mmy!...Smack!...Smack!...ONE.......TWO....." (holding up one then two fingers) - at which point I nearly crashed the car I was laughing so much! This is what we sometimes say to Joni if she's doing something naughty, we threaten to smack her (if she persists in doing whatever she's doing), and give her a count up to three; we don't normally get there but it's so hilarious that Joni was using this back on us!