You know how there are things that happen in life that absolutely confirm you are getting older?  One happened the other day.  Amazon delivered my order of a ‘SKYSPER Sling Bag Crossbody Backpack – Chest Shoulder Cross Body Bag Travel Hiking Casual Daypack’ and my excitement levels were high.

I feel like I need to tell you the back story here.

Once upon a time, many years ago…well, about six years ago, I went on my first holiday with Mr R and his boys.  I was not a step mum in those days.  It was very clear I was only just about tolerated in fact.  And that was fair enough; the boys were 12 and 8 and didn’t really know me, and it turned out I didn’t really know them.

We were in Cornwall and on one of the first days of the holiday we went to St Michaels Mount.  This is a castle that you walk to at low tide over a causeway.  It was lovely and I really wanted to take a look around and hoped that the boys imaginations would be captured by the place.

The boys however moved from being relatively interested to monosyllabic in what felt like minutes.  They asked for snacks.  We had no snacks.  They became mute with hangryness.

You see, I had no idea at that point that boys require feeding approximately every 2.5 minutes.  And if you don’t, thunder clouds descend and it is not good.  We cut our trip around the castle short, ignored the gardens entirely and made our way to the café where they embraced their inner locusts and ate everything in sight.

So from that day on, I learned that you go nowhere – and I mean nowhere – without snacks.  And the snack bag was born.

And as Mr R and I got more into expeditions on the bike and walking and the like, we recognised the importance of the snack bag for ourselves too.  But the snack bag holds either a couple of sandwiches and an apple or a bottle of drink and a small snack each.  And Percy usually drinks the entire bottle himself. And then the zip pulls broke.

So I ordered a bigger and better bag with two external bottle holders so now I can fit in a decent sized set of snacks and drinks and open it without having to use my teeth, but not have to carry a full sized rucksack.  I cannot tell you how happy this, combined with the number of useful pockets it contains has made me.  Maybe you can tell that though. 😃

I will be testing out the Snack Bag 2.0 over the next week and for reasons that will become clear I think it will come into its own; I bet you can’t wait to hear all about it 😉