Strawberry Cornetto please
You know when you do something, and as you are doing it you are thinking, ‘this isn’t such a smart idea’.
Taking a hot tray out the oven and forgetting the tea towel.
Jumping in a pool without checking how deep it is.
Using your back teeth to open a beer bottle.
Shaking the ketchup without checking the lid.
Drinking a whole bottle of Pimms because it’s only weak and it’s is a sunny.
Do I need to go on?
After a little too much to drink the other night I decided to get all wholesome the next day and get everyone up, bright and early, packed and ready and trundled off to the beach for an early swim.
BIG mistake.
Water was freezing…
Daughter was grumpy…
Sun was too bright…
Head was hurting…
Should have stayed in bed.
After much moaning and groaning at the healthy picnic I had packed, being freezing and generally very under privileged kids, I caved in and we went for ice creams.
Finally happy, off they skipped for a play in the park.
STOP. Just a little advice here before I go on. This may be obvious to most people. NEVER presume anything is anything when a small child brings it to you.
‘Look,’ said Hunny (my 4-year-old) as she held out her dress.
‘Never mind,’ I replied. Immediately licking the creamy white ice cream off.
Now, I’ve never really liked strawberry Cornetto but this wasn’t right.
Hangover in full swing, bright sun, thumping head. My brain took a moment to compute.
I almost puked. Hunny laughed.
Seagulls are a big problem in Brighton.
Never presume.
Next time I will just stay in bed and accept that on certain days, Loom Bands and Ipads really do equal ‘best parenting practice’.
a field somewhere 
Oh gross Sarah – poor you!!!
Actually, it wasn’t that bad. I know that sounds horrible but I thought it would taste much worse consider all the crap they eat!
That just made me giggle quite a lot… Glad to hear it wasn’t quite as disgusting as it sounds!
Hahaha! Did it cure the hangover??
Oh no! That’s making me feel sick now – poor you 😦 #whatsthestory
Oh no that’s not what I was expecting at the end of that post! Definitely a day for bed the next time theres a morning after the night before!
Very funny, but poor you, loom bands next time alright!
Haha thats the best whats the story I have read! I am so sorry to laugh at your misery but … I learned something here and I would never ever lick any white thing from my son when there are seagulls =P #whatsthestory
Thanks for dropping by. Glad to have taught you something for the future!
Fab story – hope you’re not too traumatised! Gammon got attacked by one the other day on the beach. We had a picnic and it grabbed his bit of chicken right from his hand. Cue hideous ear-piercing screaming from both Gammon and Chips. I think they’re both scared of the sea now 😦
How awful! I had some paint fall in my mouth while I was painting the ceiling this morning and wondered if it was poisonous, but what happened to you was worse. Hope you were OK.
Ohhhhh noooooo eewwwww heheheeee I did laugh though (sorry).
Oh Sarah such a funny post, even more so when I got to the ice-cream. I can’t imagine how you must have felt afterwards. What a brilliant story though, one you’ll laugh about one day! Thank you so much for sharing #whatsthestory