What a lovely weekend we all had, but the 'icing on the cake' was Saturday night. We had a family 'Carpet Picnic' and dvd night. The carpet picnic involves all our favourite nibbles on the living room table whist we all sit on the carpet and tuck in.
After the picnic our youngest went to bed and the four of us watched 'Super 8', which was an entertaining alien monster movie for the kids. Once the other two had gone to bed, us grown ups watched 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' which was heavy going at times but a very well made film, and Gary Oldman was fantastic as 'Smiley'.
But what made the evening great was the discussion the five of us had whilst devouring the picnic. We got around to each taking turns describing our perfect day. Now considering that we are all very different people as a family with vastly varying likes and dislikes, each of our perfect days were our interpretations of days that we have had whilst living here in the lovely village of Bembridge (the largest parish village in the country allegedly).
Living as we do here on our small island off the south coast of England, which is a lovely, safe environment for our children to grow up in, we do sometimes wonder whether we should be joining the rat race on the mainland, it is easy to forget everything we have here. But I think Saturday evening re-confirmed that we seem to be getting if right for all of us here on the wonderful Isle of Wight.
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