Hope the weather has been nice where you are. Here in Scotland it has been a bit sprinkly and overcast but nice enough for summer. I've been back into the swing of seaglunking and etsy selling again for the past couple weeks. Yes, a THOUSAND apologies for being so out of it over the last few months. I suppose its ok to tell you all now since I'm 19 weeks in and no troubles so far that yes I'm pregnant again. It was a pretty difficult first trimester this time around. I was sicker and more tired than I was last time and I guess with the added bonus of looking after a toddler has taken its toll on me physically. I know it's not gonna get any easier but I really can't let that stand in the way of my most favourite hobby, seaglunking of course!
So this is a bank holiday weekend and usually my husband and I indulge in another of our hobbies, Larping. (Its like RPG but you dress up as your character and spend a weekend killing monsters and making friends.) However, this year due to money or rather lack thereof, we have forgone going down south for this festival and instead decided to spend some much needed time together.
Here is part of the beach we walked along. So beautiful! Anyway of course we are seaglunkers so the name of the game is finding beach booty. And the reason I like going to these more northen beaches is because they offer a sandy tumble from a harsher sea making the glass you find here just amazing high quality. Because the Musselburgh beaches I venture out on are much more rocky, I tend to find more but not nearly as much of that totally tumbled stuff.
We also find a great selection of rocks here. Scotland has lots of ancient valcanoes and the beach is littered with quartz and volcanoe rock that has been surf tumbled for centuries. Mr. Seaglunker is particularly enamoured with the quartz rocks you can find on the beach and of course geodes are a special favourite. He's found a couple of those in his time. Great big oyster shells are dotted around as well as lovely tumbled small cone shells.
Anyway we'll be back but not anytime soon for a couple of reasons. I'm getting bigger and unable to hike as far (I have got ailments in my hips and back from you know being pregnant lol) and our little mini glunker is such a handful when she's out on the beach. Watching her is a full time job that takes two parents and of course leaves no time for dedicated seaglunking. Challenges are coming but I'm sure in the next couple years we'll figure out a good routine. Or at least something workable.
But as I'm on a high from yesterday I'm going out today to my normal beach with just me and the dogs. They aren't nearly so demanding of my attention and are happy to chase the ball and hang out with me while we walk along the beach. So hopefully I'll have a few more rarities by the end of the weekend Seaglunking and tomorrow we can all get busy on the task of totally relaxing! All the while I'm sure I'll be planning my next outing lol
Catch up with you all again soon!
Happy Hunting xx Sarah
