Canvey Beach Clean Up

We recently took a nice afternoon walk along the coast at Canvey Island and I was super proud of Brandon and Holly as they decided to have a beach clean-up and trolled the beach looking for any rubbish that they could pick up and dispose of in the bins. We also tried skimming a few stones and enjoyed a nice ice-cream to finish off our coastal walk.

On a sunny day it is amazing to live in a place where we are just 20 mins away from the coast and can enjoy such nice walks. If you can overlook the bad reputation Canvey Island has, it can be beautifully scenic as you can see in the pictures.

Beautiful scenery on a sunny day in Canvey Island.

I think our coastline is starting to clean up as it becomes harder and harder for companies to dump waste in the sea.

I know it is shallow, but the water actually looks cler and clean here.

These two were on a mission to clean the beach and went on a rubbish collecting mission for the afternoon.

Annual Car Clean, Parking Ticket and Insurance Cancellation!!!

Joshua has had a testing couple of weeks with his car as of late. It all started when he picked up his first parking offence in Wickford resulting in a £60 fine. However much worse than that, his black box for his insurance detected him doing 48 mph down Cranes Farm Rd (which is a 30 mph limit) and therefore notified him via email that this is dangerous driving and that they were cancelling his insurance. The annoying thing about this is he was only 2-3 months away from getting his first years no claims bonus. So I have had the stress of having to cancel his old policy (before they could cancel) and then sort out some new insurance so that he can still get to work and college! 

On the plus side he has now had Tina's Fiesta for nearly 10 months and up until this week I think he had only washed it once or twice (through a car wash, never by hand). Yesterday was the first time since owning the car that he has actually bothered to clean the car himself. This was  only because he bought one of those spray guns with the foam cleaner from Tik-Tok and was keen to try it out. I have to say it actually works really, really well and when fitted to my old Karcher jet wash it brought his car up beautifully clean. Needless to say I will probably be pinching that off him for my car as well! Let's hope with his new toy he actually keeps the car clean now and that this wasn't a one time novelty for him.

It has only taken 10 months for Josh to clean his car by hand for the first time.

He bought a new foam sprayer gun with foam cleaner from Tik-Tok to clean his car.

So whilst I say he cleaned it by hand, he really cleaned it by spray gun and hardly touched the actual car.

But it did work very well and I will no doubt be using this as well.