It's been really hot here the last few days. I managed to get sunburnt again, stupidly cutting the hedge in the hot sun. (Will I ever learn??) The kids paddling pool has made another appearance and there has been some gorgeous sunsets over the mountains.

Yesterday it was so hot we decided to go down by Windermere to let the kids splash about while we relaxed. It was really nice, there was a lovely cool breeze and the kids had great fun playing about on the beach and on an old tree which came down in the last storms.

After doing the holiday cottages today we headed down to the Windermere Airshow. It's on every year but we have never got to one until now. It was absolutely packed down by the lake, I have never seen so many people down there and it does get busy down there in the Summer!
The kids had been watching a big RAF helicopter, while we were at the holiday cottages, doing an aerial display and we managed to catch it just as it was setting off from the show. There was also a falconry display, the local Air Ambulance which the kids had a sit in and an RAF plane where they became mini pilots for a few minutes! Ben wanted to have a look at the Army Jeeps and Eilidh was desperate to go on the big wheel at the fair which they did! There was also a Civil War re-enactment society who had a little village where they were showing people, woodwork, how people lived, all the weapons like rapiers and muskets which the kids had a try with and also a small cannon which Eilidh learned how to clean and load (you never know when you might need to know that!!) It was a really good afternoon, very hot and sunny but I had remembered the sunscreen this time!