Smooth Breakfast with Tom Davies

Your Summer Survival Kit

Ah the summer!

Welcome to your Summer survival kit.

The credit crunch has hit so here are your top five tips for entertaining the kids with no budget.

Tips to entertain the kids during the credit crunch.

Tom's Top Tip: Give them your old fairy liquid bottles as water guns.

Roger's Top Tip: (thanks to his dad!): Take them to the beach when it's raining, everything is closed so you spend no money and they have more fun because they can build better sand castles with wet sand.

And your tips:

Send them to the grandparents and let them worry about it! Hannah in Tow Law.

I always find the old ‘go and make your dad a cup of tea and a sandwich' occupies them for quarter of an hour and it's interesting to see what they come back with!

We had a party 2 entertain my 3yr old nephew with bits we had in the cupboard and played pass the parcel with his own toys the party was just 4 him and he loved it! keeps asking for another. Gina in Boro

We used to go camping down the duff at Wrekenton, you just couldn't do it nowadays but it cost us nowt and we were less than a mile away from home. Jon in Gateshead

We take our granddaughter down the beach lookin 4 seashells and she loves it we see who can find the most. Hazel Whitburn

And Here are the Top Ten Songs that sum up the unpredictable summer weather we enjoy in Britain.

Good Day Sunshine - Beatles
It's raining again - Supertramp
Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks
Heatwave - Martha and the Vandellas
Have you ever seen the rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones
Sunshine on a Rainy Day - Zoe
Its Raining Men- The Weather Girls
Wake me Up When September Ends - Green Day

Question:

This year the summer Solstice landed on June 20 but where does the word solstice come from?

Answer: it's from the Latin words sol - Sun, and Stice meaning to stand still.