This week we are on our holidays
Every year for Matilda Mae’s birthday
We travel to Coombe Mill Farm
In Cornwall
With a young family
We always try to break the journey into chunks
Often with an overnight
Tilda’s birthday is in May
And our usual stopover is at Longleat on the 303
This year
We have travelled on my birthday
At the end of September
Meaning that we were unable to travel
Travelling at a different time of year
We decided to take the opportunity
To try a different route
From our home in the South East
To Tilda’s river in the South West
This year we have had a two night stay
In Devon
Spending our days in Dorset
In Wimborne and Weymouth
Two Ws
If you turn WW upside down
You get MM
Matilda Mae
I like it when things happen like that
This year I have also found a new way of recording our holiday
Using Insta Stories on Instagram
This is encouraging me to make more videos
And to add snippets of commentary to the films
I am very aware though that Ista Stories
Are not permanent
And realise I am also going to need another way
To document our travels
And the magic moments from our trip
I take hundreds of photographs every day
They are all stored on my computer
Often only by date
Sometimes by place, event, occasion
I sometimes collate some photographs
Put them together with music
To make a video
What I very very rarely do
Is take any pictures off my computer
And display them in books
Or in our home
And it is a shame
As some of the moments I capture are very special
And a select few of the photos
I think
Are actually rather good
It would seem that I am not alone
Destination2 discovered that
29 percent of people
Admit to leaving snaps on the computer
Doing nothing with them at all
Only 12.5 percent of holidaymakers
Make the effort to get their photos printed
This holiday
Is Edie Mae’s first holiday
It is also a good time of year for our family
The week between mine and David’s birthday
We are also now a home educating family
So we are going to do a little family project
We are going to make a holiday photo book
A scrapbook
Of our special trip
Cornwall 2017
We will choose a few photos from each day
The children can write the captions
And they can all have a copy for their rooms
I think that will be a lovely thing to do
And might even be a new family tradition
In readiness fir when the children are all a little older
And we travel to more far flung destinations
A log of our travels
Our own adventure stories
To have and to hold in our hands
To share
To remember
For all time
The sand may brush off, the salt may wash clean, the tans may fade, but the memories will last forever
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