Toddlertastic

Today it is finally raining after weeks of unbroken sunshine, which we are pleased about as we have laid grass seed around the building project and would like it to have a good water now.  In other places grass is being dug today; as I type at 5.15pm on a Friday afternoon the new 'toddler tower' has just arrived from Derbyshire and is being installed into the play area.  It is a slide and climbing wall for our toddling guests which is very exciting.  Our youngest member of the family started walking this week so I am certain I know two little people who will test the new play equipment out.

Talking of testing things out we have been trying out the cycle trails that lead from the park.  I have acquired a bike trailer, so I have had great fun towing our girls along the trail - I even have the sore muscles to prove it as it some weight I am pulling along.  We had a lovely cycle up through the Kings Wood to River Valley Holiday Park towards St Austell, our other touring park, to visit Auntie Alison.  It was such a lovely ride that Bethany managed to doze off.  Then another day we had an adventure down to Pentewan.  The trail is flat so it is an ideal ride for novices like myself or for younger riders learning how to ride.  So don't forget to pack your bike when you come and stay, or if you can't fit it in then you can always hire from Pentewan Cycles.  If booked in advance they will deliver to the park for you and collect them.

We feel like we are on the home straight of the toilet block project now.  All the tarmacing around the new building is complete, we have ceilings going up in the laundry room ready for the washing machines to be installed next week.  The carpenters are installing the cubicles in the gents and work on finishing the skylights in there is complete too.  The cladding of the building has begun which is a long slow process, but it looks very nice and we have started painting the outside too.  We are now heading towards the finishing touches, which I cannot tell you what a relief that is after a very, very long winter.  I am off all over St Austell collecting mirrors, toilet brushes, ordering toilet roll and cleaning products - it really is a glamorous job!

That say I did have a more glamorous experience this week and one I cannot recommend enough.  My friend and I managed to re-home the children for the day and headed to Fowey Hall Hotel - ironically a very child friendly hotel.  We were treated to an hour long massage and facial and then proceeded to sit in the outside hot tub over looking Fowey and the sea for 2 hours (we were a bit wrinkly when we got out).  Followed by the biggest afternoon tea I have ever seen.  It was a belated birthday treat and what a treat it was.  If you are looking for a special afternoon whilst staying at Little Winnick Touring Park then why not check out one of the spas near by.  As well as Fowey Hall, there is The Cornwall just up the road or Watergate Bay Hotel on the north coast has a stunning spa on the top of the cliffs.

Finally my most exciting news of the week is the two new recruits that will be joining us here at Little Winnick.  Lady and Bird.  They are too bantam hens, who are very tame and friendly.  They are at our cottages at the moment, Tregongeeves, but once we get opened they will be part of the welcoming committee here and tonight I am off home to set up the incubator my mother in law gave me today.  I am not sure how happy Richard is about this, it is all part of my cunning plan to acquire a few more feathered friends!

Finally sorry for the lack of photographs in the blog, I had taken some and my camera ended up at home and I am at the office...next time!

Competition time, oh and the sun is out

So last blog I launched our competition for you to win a free ice cream!  We have Postman Pat obsessed children who love getting things in the post, but these days there is not much post - so we are asking you, are lovely blog readers to send us a postcard from where ever you happen to be and in return we will give you a free ice cream when you come and stay.  It really is a win win situation - you make two little girls day and we give you an ice cream!

I cannot tell you the delight at the postcards we have already received - trying to spot Fuzzy the bear was fun and the safari postcards caused great excitement!  Please send all postcards to:
Miss J&B Clemo, Little Winnick Touring Park, Pentewan, Cornwall, PL26 6DL.  Thank you!

In other news we have been blessed with wall to wall sunshine this week.  In fact on Wednesday we decided to head to Pentewan Beach - Little Winnick's nearest beach.  I stupidly told Jess we were going to beach, so we ended up there at 8.45am she was so excited.  Funnily enough we were the first people on the beach - it was glorious having the beach to ourselves with the tide right out.  With such a low tide brought with it some interesting discoveries on the beach - we spotted two huge jelly fish.  Apparently there are a lot of them off our coastline at the moment.  So that was the morning, we popped up to see Granny for a few hours, she has two new lambs so we went to see them at Tregongeeves Farm Cottages - Olaf and Elsa are bottle fed so quite tame.  We then headed back to the beach for tea - a fantastic barbecue and a beer with friends.  The temperature stayed high until gone 7.30pm so we felt very spoilt.

Work on the park is continuing.  The cladding is going up as I type.   We have now had all the new tarmac laid and we have sown grass seed where we have been digging.  Currently we have a trench dug so we can relay the tv aerial to the hard standing pitches on the river bank side of the park.  We are also excitedly waiting the installation of some extra play equipment - a toddler slide and climbing wall.   I know two little people who will test that out for everyone!

Spring Sun & Competition Time

View from Coastguard Hut

Breakfast. Yum

What. A. Scorcher.  Yippeeee.  We are all nursing slightly burnt noses in the Clemo household today having spent the afternoon celebrating Bethany's first birthday with a BBQ in the garden.  We were truly bless with amazing weather.  We have just about managed to put the toys back in the rightful places, collected all the balls from the ball pool and gathered up all the missing eggs from the Easter Egg Hunt!  Back to work tomorrow for a rest.

We have had a brilliant few days sharing it with visiting and local friends.  We enjoyed breakfast in the Coastguard Lookout at Caerhays - I have mentioned this before but it was the first time we have cooked there.  We took our own stove and had bacon and egg sandwiches with cups of tea. The view is staggering - it was really a fantastic treat.  We then walked the coastal path to Portholland to look at the film set - they start filming Miss Peregine's Home for Peculiar Children in the next couple of weeks.  It was amazing looking around, we were tapping walls to see if they were real (they were not) and spent ages trying to work out which buildings had been added and which were always there.

We enjoyed a lovely cup of tea and cake in the Pebbles Cafe.  The lovely cafe is well worth a visit - take cash as they do not accept cards and take a bit extra for the wonderful crafts they create and sell too.

Pebbles Cafe Portholland

Film set

COMPETITION TIME

Now, down to the business of the the aforementioned competition! Each week I write the blog, I love doing it and love visiting places to tell you about.  In return for the blogs we would like your help.  We have a Postman Pat OBSESSED two and half year old who each day runs to letter box to collect the post when it is delivered as in her world every post person is Pat and has a cat called Jess with them!  So, I am asking all blog readers to make a little girls day simply by...

Please can you send Jessica (aged 2 1/2)and Bethany (aged 1) a postcard from where ever you are, near or far.  In return we will give anyone who visits us in the 2015 season who has sent a postcard a free ice cream of your choice. Please help make their days!

Please send postcards to Miss J & B Clemo, Little Winnick Touring Park, Pentewan, Cornwall, PL26 6DL.  Thanks x

A spring in our step

There is a real feeling of spring around the place right now ans the daffodils are out in full glory.  The rally are having a lovely time with a trip out last night to Jamaica Inn and many more activities planned over the weekend.  There are even more happier now the gale force winds have dropped down - it was pretty windy here mid week.

Work on the park has quietened down whilst we have the rally in - however next week sees a long list of people onsite.  The middle of the week we have the tarmacers in, along with flooring people, electrians and carpenters.  This week has been a bit odd with not much visible building work happening, given we have been a building site for almost 6 months it felt very quiet.  The new facilities are being given a good testing by our rally and we have had great feed back.

The family bathroom

This week we took yet another visit to The Lost Gardens of Heligan - their Easter activities were brilliant, so much to do for the children; we made a rabbit mask, mud nest (not loved that much by us at home!), did an Easter egg trail, painted eggs and much more.  I had a bit of a scare as my fearless child decided to hurtled out of control down a very steep hill.  Time for me was in slow motion as I realised she couldn't stop.  A very dramatic crash followed by lots of people running to our aid.  Luckily the crash helmet took the majority of the fall and the damp weather meant she had plenty of layers on cushion her fall.  There were huge amounts of tears but that was because I told her she had to push her bike and couldn't ride it!  Mummy was more traumatised by the incident than Jessica.

The ladies

The disable bathroom

This weekend we have friends visiting, they are pasty lovers so tomorrow we have promised them pasties by the sea.  We have in the past held the pasty championships with these friends where we brought pasties from all over the place to test them out to see who is the best.  We will be doing the same tomorrow in round two of pasty championships and of course the results we feature in next weeks blog.

Monday sees our youngest daughter turn one - I have no idea where that year has gone.  So we are having an Easter Egg Hunt and a BBQ, just hoping for good weather.  We wish you a Happy Easter where ever you are in country and hope you enjoy some sun too.