{"id":931,"date":"2020-08-14T15:47:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T22:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/?p=931"},"modified":"2020-08-14T15:47:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T22:47:23","slug":"14th-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/2020\/08\/14th-august-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"14th August 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Feeling:<\/strong>\u00a0Tired but happy<\/li><li><strong>Listening to:<\/strong>\u00a0Nothing today<\/li><li><strong>Watching<\/strong>:\u00a0Fort Salem<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Last day in Wales today, as we have to be out of the cottage by 9am(!) tomorrow morning and we&#8217;re going to take Mum home then head home ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We went down to Oxwich Bay on the Gower &#8211; it was quite a grey day, and much cooler than it has been most of the week, but that was really nice for me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6418-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-932\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6418-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6418-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6418-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6418-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6418-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6418-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We walked the length of Oxwich Bay (about 3km each way) at a pretty leisurely pace with the kids, especially F, playing in the surf all the way<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6422-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"934\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6422-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/?attachment_id=934#main\" class=\"wp-image-934\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6422-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6422-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6422-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6422-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6422-800x1067.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6422-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"948\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6423-948x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"933\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/?attachment_id=933#main\" class=\"wp-image-933\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6423-948x1024.jpg 948w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6423-278x300.jpg 278w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6423-768x830.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6423-800x864.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_6423.jpg 1398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 948px) 100vw, 948px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At the far end of the bay we had lunch and then me, D and F walked back along the beach the way we&#8217;d come, and Mum and B walked across the dunes instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we got back to the car we&#8217;d promised F she could get into the sea properly rather than just paddling. F and B have both had swimming lessons at school, but they&#8217;ve done barely any swimming outside of that (which we really should do something about), but F was very keen to swim, and asked me to help her &#8211; she did a really good job and was really proud of herself (and I got my feet wet as well!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"759\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_9218-759x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-935\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_9218-759x1024.jpg 759w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_9218-222x300.jpg 222w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_9218-768x1036.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_9218-1139x1536.jpg 1139w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_9218-1519x2048.jpg 1519w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_9218-800x1079.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_9218.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 759px) 100vw, 759px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We got back to the car and bought a cup of tea from the kiosk &#8211; and it started to rain &#8211; so we had the tea and some bara brith in the car before heading back to the cottage for homemade pizza for tea. 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