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Great ages, aren't they?! still young enough to be 'innocent' - childhood seems to pass so quickly these days.
I have been playing the easier board games , like Snakes and Ladders and Ludo with the eldest grandson since he was "but a nipper"! all the boys play now, even the 3 year old can manage Snakes and Ladders.
Are you thinking of going camping as in staying in the tent overnight? if, so , you are far braver than I!

I am about to order Snakes and Ladders!
The family want to stay overnight, not sure about me. But we used to camp as a family a long time ago. I remember staying in a really wild place in Scotland (the name Melon sticks in my mind, but seems unlikely), close to the sea. A gale got up and all of us (except my mother) spent the rest of the night hanging onto the frame of the tent.
I believe you are kept awake by muntjac deer barking where I'm thinking of the family camping.

Rosalind, I usedto go to Wester Ross.
That is wild!
Two places there were Mellon Udrigle and Mellon Charles?

You never know, Rusty and Ros, you may have passed each other on the moors?!
It's like Chris, jazzy and I discovering that we'd all been to the same haunts in and around Swanage at the same time! Chris even visited a pub just up the road from where we were staying!

Elle, so that was Rosalind?
Not too far off, is the abandoned village of Slaggan.
It is reached by an unmade road.
The road stops there at a beaufiful beach on the shores of Loch Ewe. Very deep water.
I remember a wren nesting in one of abandoned cottages.
Happy days!

Yes, thanks Rusty, that sounds like the place. My father loved wild and untamed Scotland, my mother not so much. I can't remember more than I wrote before, except that I think we had the sea within sight of the tent. I don't think there was anyone else around, but on the other hand we usually went to a campsite even if it was a "wild" one. And Dad had to use the work's waysgoose (a new word, Rusty?), the last two weeks of July.
I've just heard we are going to borrow a tent with black outs (for the children) and sleep in my wood for a night soon. Wow

Rosalind, yes, waysgoose is new to me!
It sounds to me as if you were at Mellon Udrigle beach at Laide. Aultbea being the only place of any size nearby. By that I mean it had a grocer cum Johnny-everything shop.
Mellon Charles is more remote.
At Mellon Udrigle there would be great views of the mountains and the Summer Isles.
A tent with black outs is new to me too!
Sounds great though.
Watch out for bears!

Hello Everyone !

Hope you are all enjoying your Sunday.

Rosalind, I'll team up with Rusty and ask you what a tent with black outs ? (Mind you I know nothing about camping)

Good morning, Pigale!
Camping was pretty rough and ready when I was a lad!
No black out tents!
How is your weather, now, Pigale?

Hello Rusty !

A bit grey and coolish (well to us ! its no more than 22C) yesterday and today - although the recent storms did not affect us, it has affected our weather - all due to get back to normal in a day or so.

I have never felt inclined to go camping mostly because I do not want to share my living space with 'creepy-crawlies' ! I leave them well alone to lead their life in the garden on the understanding that they respect my living quarters too.

One great experience though was when we hired a canal boat and went on a trip for a week with my Parents. We had hired a large enough boat to be comfortable regardless of the generation gap.

It took us a whole week to get to Sancerre and back - now, getting to this town from here by road only takes something like an hour and a half! It really felt like we had gone far away, with no cars around us, just the canal and fields or woods on either side, and plenty of locks to pass through. To be recommended !

During that trip, I took a picture of my Father actually drying up the dishes - quite an event !