D Day + 9: Saturday 21 August 2010 - Water Water....

Water seems to be a recurrent theme with us lately, in various forms - C is trying valiantly to drink loads of the stuff to help flush his kidney and non-kidney through and is checking its status when it comes out 'the other end'; the weather has been miserable with plenty of drizzle etc; and we've spent more time in, on or looking at the sea in the last week or so than ever before!  It is very relaxing stuff to be around - there's something comforting about the sound of the the sea on the shore, it takes you back to childhood days of summer when the only things you were worried about was who was friends with you, how long you had off school, what you were going to play that day and what was for dinner.  Simple times.
C thinks I should have an 'angle' for this blog in these days when we are treading water (there it is again, you see, keeps cropping up, this wet stuff) for fear that it's going to get boring.  I can see his point - daily mundane reports on what we've eaten, where we've been etc are bound to get more of a yawn factor going; however I quite like the idea that those mundane, boring, everyday things are in this blog so that in the weeks to come when the s**t hits the fan and we're dealing with hospitals, drugs, doctors etc on a regular basis I'll be able to look back and get a sense of how it was now.  Comments please?
We've had another calm day today - spent time down at the beach hut this morning, an impromptu visit (they're always the nicest) for what was going to be tea and buns but ended up as lunch.  I don't know what it is that makes beans on toast and cups of tea taste so differently nice down there; it was also nice that passers by were intrigued by the smell of toast emanating from a former railway carriage - not the aroma you'd expect by the seaside!  One chap declared himself fascinated by the huts and said he's always wanted to see inside one; we duly obliged and let him poke his head in the door to get a full nostril full of toast aroma.  Green with envy, clearly, nuff said.

 The view from our hut - nice innit?

I've acquired an iPhone; it's not like me to get all simpery over gadgets, but since the arrival of C's iPad I've been hooked, so it's like having a consolation prize.  We've plugged it into the PC and it's currently doing synching and back ups or something, which is frustrating C as it's taking a long time.  I have told him off for wishing time away - it's not like I've got to unplug it asap and go off to do something vital - he's becoming as impatient as I used to be...oh the joys of role reversal.
Romilly is off camping on the south coast of the Island tonight; usually in August you'd think that would be a lovely thing to do, however given the weather and fairly brisk winds I wouldn't be surprised if that plan gets aborted for the warmth and comfort of Dan's house...and presumably the return tomorrow of some very damp camp bedding; I hate the smell of 'tent'.
I've rented the newish Sherlock Holmes film for us to watch tonight; I had planned to have a 'dry' night tonight, given that my alcohol consumption this week has been a little on the high side.  However I just remembered that I bought a bottle of Bombay Sapphire gin, and the thought of a large one of those with some ice and a bit of tonic is too appealing to turn down...and I am on my last non-school night tonight.  Ho hum.