The Adventures of Bumpy

Bumpy (the name we have temporarily given to our unborn child) has been on a few adventures recently. I guess because I've been on a few adventures and it's inside me. Yes I'm like a russian doll, but a bit of a crap one because there isn't a baby inside my baby. Although if my baby is a girl then the eggs that will hopefully be half of our future grandchildren are already inside our baby's ovaries.  So that's pretty cool.

This year we decided on a very opposite holiday to last year's cycle to Kuwait. We decided to do something relaxing and to stay in England in case we needed the NHS.  So we booked 6 nights in a B&B farmhouse with a swimming pool in Cornwall. We then kept adding extra days to complicate things, so we ended up going to Cornwall via my parents in Coventry, friends in Wiltshire and a campsite in Devon.

So here are some things bumpy has been getting up to:

Going on a rope swing.

Sleeping in a horse box, that my friend Josh is making into his house.

Being licked by a horse on a day trip to Lundy Island off the coast of Devon.

Swimming in a rock pool.

Breaking the law.

 We have this really cool book called 'wild swimming' that has lots of suggestions of nice places to swim (that's how we knew about the cool rock pool place.) So on our way back from holiday we looked in the book for places near the M5 that we could stop off at and we found this lovely quarry. Unfortunately since the book was written there must have been an accident here and the police have decided to put an end to everyone's fun by putting up boring signs. They could have just put up a sign saying 'be a bit careful' or 'don't jump in if you're drunk or can't swim' but that's not really their style.

I didn't want to let a sign get in the way of fun, so I weighed up the risk of danger... (I can swim, there was no current and Dan is a qualified life guard so low risk) and the risk of getting caught...this concerned me a bit more but it would only be a fine, they're hardly going to imprison me. My motto for life is "better sorry than safe" so I decided it was worth it. There was no one around when I got in, but then some walkers appeared making comments like "it says no swimming" and more offensively "that's how natural selection works".... "well ha ha to you because I'm already pregnant" is what I didn't say in reply.

I will leave you with some bump art. I wonder which face Bumpy will end up looking most like.