What We Did On A Sunny Day.

Well, it was a long weekend here, 

and the sun continued to smile upon us, so we did what we have been itching to do but couldn't over the last week.

We drove half an hour south to one of our favourite beaches, Silver Strand, just south of Wicklow town. 

This is a beach from my childhood. 

I know we have a beach on our doorstep, but that's where you go for stoney winter windswept walks. 

This beach is where you go when you want to swim,

and catch minnows and shrimp,

and tear about in gangs, voices high-pitched and excited,

where the coldness of the water seems incidental,

because there are boats to be sailed, 

and holes to be dug.

And there's more on the way, they say. I am not going to be typical Irish and say wistfully, 'Well, that's our summer over and done with'. Surely we are due a good summer after the last few wash-outs we've had! 

Well, I hope the sun shone wherever you were today!