We had such a fabulous time in Southbourne at the weekend. The weather was glorious until home time, when the heavens opened and we got caught in a hail storm like never before. Queue wet jeans all the way home to Weston super Mare!

We can go to Southbourne and spend not a penny. We are so lucky that my grandparents bought the flat over 30 years ago and even luckier to have a beach hut! All the big boy wanted was to get nudey on the beach! We had to keep telling him that it wasn't summer and that big boys need to wear swimming trunks!

It is that innocence that I find so heart warming. That he sees a beach and just wants to strip off and run around, come rain or shine, without a care in the world.

Last summer a few people gave us funny looks when I let him run around in just a nappy and it made me terribly sad to think that in today's society, instead of people thinking how wonderful that a child has a sense of freedom, they think it is wrong and that they should be covered up. I'm not quite brave enough for a nudist holiday so will just have to put up with the funny looks!

We took a bootle of bubbly that we were given a while ago, and the boys milk down to the hut and wrapped up warm for pre dinner drinks by the sea!

Not quite a sex on the beach or a pina colada with umbrella in the Caribbean sun, but it felt like a mini adventure!

ps I took small boy in his baby gro and sleeping bag so he was nice and cosy and then was ready to go to bed when we walked home. The bag is the only one with arms I can find and has a hole in the bottom for the car seat straps to go through so perfect for travelling too when you just want to lift them out straight into bed! Find it at JoJo Maman Bebe.

Fortunately the very busy Mammasaurus has posted a link to Saturday is Caption Day early this week as she is off to Blog Camp. As we are off, to hopefully sunny but might be soggy, Southbourne I thought I would miss it, but hooray! Here is my entry! Captured as small boy was having a snack.

"Wishing and waiting and thinking and praying"

I remember at my 6 week check, after I had both my boys, the GP said "so let's have a chat about contraception". I almost fell off my seat! She had to be joking surely, whilst I was finally able to sit down without wincing, (I had forceps with big boy and it was a car crash down there for a long time) the need for contraception was absolutely the last thing on my mind. I have heard the stories of people who have a 9 month and a few weeks gap due to relying on the fact that breastfeeding is meant to act as a natural contraceptive but I am always astonished that people are already to be at it again, just a handful of weeks into parenthood, breastfeeding or no breastfeeding!

Small boy was 5 months old when I finally got round to visiting the GP for the "contraception post baby" discussion. Well, I hadn't specifically booked the appointment for that, I just tacked it onto the end of a visit for the third round of conjunctivitis in as many months.

While my husband is adamant our family is complete, his fear of needles combined with the fact that a vasectomy is a voluntary operation on his misters, has meant that he will not be booking in for the snip any time soon. I have thought about the coil and mentioned to the GP that this was probably a good option. That in five years, we will know 100% for sure that we will not be extending our family as the opportunity and my broodiness will probably have passed by then.

But I had no idea that "having a coil" involved 2 consultations, a number of intimate tests and then a final appointment to have it fitted. Obviously I knew it wouldn't be a "fit it while you wait" scenario and on reflection it is great that the GP devotes that amount of time to each woman.

But I came out wondering when I will have the time for 4 separate visits, as I really wouldn't want to have the boys with me and have to explain to a curious toddler what the Doctor was doing down there! The GP suggested I pick up a leaflet from the receptionist on my way out and then book in at my leisure.

Although I am a grown woman and mother of two, the last thing I was going to do was ask in a crowded Doctor's waiting room for a leaflet advising me on contraception. Announce to the world I might have sex! How embarrassing! Ridiculous I know!

So back to google for now. I found this great, all you need to know article on baby centre, a site I used religiously through both my pregnancies. For now, I'm sure much to my husband's dismay, I'm suggesting abstinence! Well at least until I wake up and don't feel tired as soon as I open my eyes!