Today and tomorrow have been shuffled round so we get to spend our last working day at the new house. This meant this morning we were off to the healing garden. This was a funded project, opened four or five years ago in the grounds of the towns medical centre and includes fruit and veg, …
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More o’ the same (bored of the river titles for now)
Ady took Willow to the local garage this morning as they had ordered in HT leads for her which was the latest thing Ady was fretting about. He has this list, carefully ranked of Things To Worry About and currently HT leads for Willow was at the top. Previously contenders for top spot have been …
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we’re all carried along by the river of dreams
Today is the 14th wedding anniversary of our friends Pauline and Jim. They got married on the day of Princess Diana’s funeral, quite possibly one of the most surreal days in my living memory for all sorts of reasons. Today feels a bit like that. Today in this current life the weather has been wild, …
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take me to the river
This morning there was a viewing on our hosts house so we all needed to be out of the way. Ady and Ed drove down to the garage in the village as Ed’s car was booked in for an MOT and Ady wanted to speak to the mechanic about HT leads for Willow. When he …
Moon river, wider than a mile
This morning Ady and Davies watched Doctor Who on iplayer on Ady’s phone while Scarlett and I got involved in some communal baking. I decanted some honey from huge bucket to a smaller jar, not on the scale of Pen Y Bonc honey processing but it reminded me of that. Scarlett rolled out some pastry …
ain’t no river wide enough
This morning we mostly pottered; it’s always slightly odd being in a hosts house on days you are not working. Ed and Carina are incredibly kind and I am sure they are not looking at how many slices of toast we have or how quickly the jar of honey has gone down but I am …
rollin on the river
again, more of a wall than a river but I might just keep going with river based lyrics until someone acknowledges them 😉 This morning began with piano moving. Ed who is the King of Disorganisation and a self confessed ‘Faffer’ went off into the village to see if he could borrow a flat bed …
Fishing in the rivers of life
Have a feeling I may have used that blog post title before – anyone name the song the lyric is from? Today was a day off – Carina was at work and Ed was visiting Islay with someone to discuss community gardening projects. Here in Tarbert they have established a ‘health garden’ in the grounds …
Welcome to the new house
On Monday we were all singing ‘welcome to the blue house’ (theme tune to Bear in the Big Blue House) in honour of the many coloured shops and houses along the coastline here in Tarbert. Interspersed with the theme tune to Balamory obviously :). Yesterday and today we changed it to ‘welcome to the new …
Too good to be true laddie
We went downstairs this morning and had breakfast. Peter and Carina had already left for work / school so it was just Ed and us. Ed said he had some stuff to be getting on with this morning so we should go and explore the village and work this afternoon instead. He pointed us in …
70 miles, much of it by ferry!
What a mad day! It felt very strange leaving North Wales on Friday, waking up in Motherwell on Saturday and finding everyone speaking with broad Scottish accents, particularly as Hamilton looked like any British town really. Today we really hit Scotland proper, travelling through breathtaking landscapes, ferrying across peninsulas and approaching a fishing village that …
Scotland – could be the undoing of us all
I think we’ve had more rows since we arrived in Scotland than since we left home! All sorted now but certainly the spirit of fighting in the air affected Ady and I! Yesterday morning we had a leisurely start, packed the van up, put the awning away and the kids had a last play and …
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Swooshing the week away
I seem to have forgotten to blog! 🙂 Wednesday was a chilling out doing very little day for the adults. Julie, Lorna and I drove into Llangollen to do some supermarket shopping and pick up various odd things we wanted from the town – Julie’s list included dishcloth, veg peeler and socks for Jack, mine …
Camping with cousins
Jack and Maisie arrived at our van this morning while we were still breakfasting (acually I was still technically in bed but I was awake and in the process of putting make up on, so sort of up). Lorna joined them while Julie was washing up and then the four big kids set off to …
Wynda to the wescue
When Davies was little he couldn’t say Lynda, despite otherwise having no problem with the L sound. I remember sitting for ages with him saying ‘Llllovely Llllynda’ to no avail as he’d repeat back ‘Lovely Wynda’. He also used to say papple instead of apple, pappy instead of nappy and Tarlett instead of Scarlett (hence …
Like the desserts miss the rain
Feeling most friend sick today 🙁 Not only was it a meet up of some of my Feminist Parent friends it was also a meet up at Chris & Helen’s. I hope we were missed as we most certainly missed being there. We knew when we set off that we would miss out on some …
Winding Down
well I’m still getting wound up to be honest but it really is the final furlong here now. This morning Ady mowed the front garden and then I took over the mowing in the back garden while he did some ditch filling with gravel. The grass was soaking wet though and the mower really struggled …
Andy’s revenge
This morning the sun was shining again and we had breakfast out on the balcony which was just lovely :). Ruth and Deborah joined us for a bit and on looking down at the garden Ruth mentioned the little spring that joins the river was choked with strimmings so we cleared that as a first …
Home Straight
This morning the sun was shining, which has been a fairly rare sight so far this August for us, although I know other areas of the country have been fine. Ady and Andy had collected loads of rocks from a neighbour earlier in the week and tossed them over the garden wall, they now needed …
Friday, I’m in love
yes I know it’s only Tuesday, well probably technically Wednesday, but my experience at this host is very much hating it in in the mornings, feeling better in the afternoons and going to bed thinking actually everyone is lovely after all. And it’s not just the wine, although I’m sure that does help… Today I …