First of all a lie in, what bliss 🙂 when compiling a list of small things I won’t miss when our year is up one will be having to fit in around Ady and my incompatible sleeping habits. He hates having to stay up til I am ready for bed / I hate having to go to bed early because he is tired and the reverse happens in the morning. Last night he got to go to bed when he wanted and I got to stay up, this morning we got to do it in reverse, just lovely 🙂
We spent the first couple of hours doing stuff like drinking lots of tea / coffee, chatting about how the first three months has gone, doing a blog post on WW about the last host and starting to compile lists of what we still want to learn more about, what we’d like on our own land and an in depth discussion about breeds of dog and what purpose various breeds have and how you can determine that from their physical features.
Davies asked me to show him how to draw 3d shapes so we did that for a while which led to talking about symmetry and parallel lines, naming some shapes and then on to looking at angles. We are in the perfect place to do angle and parallel line spotting so we did some of that for a while.
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It made me realise I was a bit rusty on some of the stuff so I must remember to remedy that with a bit of brushing up on such skills ready for next time a question is asked of me 😉
We went for a wander into the town which is quite an amazing little place – there is a trail around the town of wall plaques giving all sorts of information about the history of the place and the individual buildings (good info on this BBC site about the place) so we read those and went into Bunners, an old fashioned hardware store that pretty much sells *everything*. The museum is open tomorrow and Thursday afternoons so we will make it along for a look at that too to learn some more about the town.
We popped into the deli and bought some cheese, a slice of cake (which was big enough for the four of us to share) and a couple of sugar mice to bring home for lunch. We called into the garage to see if they had the stop leak fluid for Willow we needed too. They didn’t but recommended somewhere in Welshpool that did.
Home for lunch which we ate in the garden and then sat chatting out there in the sunshine. Ady made some phonecalls to try and sort Willow out. We found a place in Huddersfield that specialises in automatic transmissions but after a long debate between the four of us we decided we’ll just keep topping her up and hoping for the best rather than spend a load of money. This is subject to review and depends very heavily on how she does getting to Jan and Jonathan’s on Friday. We then looked on ebay and amazon and rang the garage in Welshpool which not only had the stuff about a fiver cheaper when we explained our predicament offered to drop it off later this evening on the mechanic’s way home. Hard to think how you can better service like that really! 🙂
I sat and did some weeding as the tiny front garden is almost completely overgrown with ground elder and we said to Lesley we’d do some gardening while we’re here. I did one of the beds and we’re planning to get the rest done tomorrow, trim the hedges and generally tidy the garden up, then have Thursday off as it’s market day here which we want to go along to.
Ady, Davies and Scarlett played some card games and then Scarlett came inside with me and we did a jigsaw – I love puzzles, almost worth having a table for ;).
Ady cooked lasagne and I rang Julie for a catch up chat; she and the children have been away to Germany for 10 days or so so we both had plenty to talk about. Scarlett got a chat with Maisie too (Jack was already asleep) which she was really chuffed about; she’s missing Maisie and even bought her a present the other day to post to her.
Davies and Scarlett took ages to get to sleep again, you’d think they’d be bored of each other by now but the lure of sleeping next to each other *without* us in same room (van) seems to have elevated it to novelty sleepover status again so they were still chatting at 11pm nearly 2 hours after they went to bed.