How do you like to spend a lazy day?

Thinking about this immediately brings up thoughts of camping on Hornby Island. It seems to be the only place where I feel comfortable doing very little. A typical Hornby Day would see me get up first and put together the ingredients of a camp breakfast with a cup of tea for Rhona while I got the bacon, eggs or whatever prepared. After that a cup of coffee would be called for then down to the chairs overlooking the water with a book for an hour or two.

Around 11am we would stir ourselves and go down to the Co-op which is the centre of social life on the Island. Time to pick up a newspaper and another coffee from the coffee shop and then on to the beach to sit on the beach with our backs against a log. Then after that we would find our way back to the campsite for lunch - usually a soup, cheese and crackers. After lunch it's time to pick up the book again and may be a nap then more reading until about 5pm when it would be nibbles time with a glass of wine and then our evening meal.

After that more reading and then about an hour before sunset we would climb down the steps to the beach and stroll along around the point to watch the sun set then back up to the camp site probably with a camp fire for an hour or so then an earlyish night. The whole routine would be repeated the following day. Our secret is that we only go when the weather is locked in and we are guaranteed three or four days of uninterrupted sunshine. Over the years we have tried to declare various days at home as "Hornby Days" so that we can have a lazy day at home but every one has been a disaster.

Neither Rhona or I are able to stop, there is always some form of little job to be done, one sits down with a book, look up and see something that needs attention. I think that it probably results from our upbringing as children, I seem to remember the phrase "The Devil makes work for idle hands" being used quite a lot.