This morning Ady and Davies went into Lancaster with Ruth who was doing the food shopping so they could visit Halfords for some dampstart for Willow. They ended up with an hour or so to wander round so also picked up a DS game for Tarly and a PSP game for Davies second hand too. …
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They’ll sleep tonight!
Pah! Gone midnight and Davies is still wide awake! This morning Ady and I did some more work on the bathroom door, we should finish it tomorrow, while Andy, Ruth and the girls were at church. We had a lengthy tea break and then they all arrived back from church. A bit more door sanding …
Tumble Grail
Today was our arranged day off. The weather was more or less on our side – I can’t believe how wet August has been, definitely the worst month of weather we’ve had so far. Very grateful to have been in a holiday cottage for the first week and a host for the second and third …
Finding my groove
It’s been a funny couple of days. I ended up in tears wanting to leave yesterday (although only Ady knows about that) and I’m struggling slightly here. I can’t decide whether it is here or me, or the coming to the end of the WWOOFing hosts really but I know all four of us are …
Strange Day
It has tipped down with rain non stop here today. I think the comment about us already doing all the planned work might actually have been true as at gone 10am we were still sort of kicking about waiting for someone to ask us to do something. Eventually we suggested to Andy that we go …
Kindred spirits
It’s quite challenging being somewhere without set hours where they tell you to ‘just work whenever you want’ as you are unsure whether you are working harder than you need to or not hard enough… on the basis that neither of us are particularly work shy and everywhere we have been hosts have seemed pleased …
Ticking off those counties
Sunday We slept in and despite planning to leave for a walk and take lunch with us managed to take so long to get going that we ended up eating lunch before we had a walk. I was finding Scarlett a bit challenging – she is so infrequently hard work (or maybe I am over …
Holiday cottage tastic
God my parents can be annoying!!!!! First the rant then 🙂 Ages and ages ago we decided that a holiday cottage rental would be a better plan than a B&B for them when they came to visit us. They end up paying at least £60 a night for B&B and then spend loads of money …
Finished. Sob.
We’re done here and have learnt tonight that it is our last night in the yurt as my Mum has finally booked a holiday cottage (that I found in the end) from tomorrow. They have two nights booked at a hotel in Newcastle so are heading for there for the weekend and will meet up …
Veg Box Day
We started slightly earlier today just because it is so interesting being part of Veg Box Day. Ady did lots of harvesting veg, salad etc. mostly working with Ange and Pia who were still here today. Davies and Scarlett did some pea and bean picking (and eating) with Pip before disappearing off into the woodland …
Rendered speechless
This morning started with breadmaking for me again – today was raisin bread with cinnamon and sugar, it was delicious and tasted like hot cross buns 🙂 Then more building. A final application of render and then the start of the cob layer. We were working with Wilf today and two women who have been …
We’ve had a great day today, loads more green building :). We started with chicken feeding and breadmaking (Ady chicken feeding, me breadmaking). The kids came into the house where I was breadmaking and while Davies played with the boys Scarlett came and did some breadmaking with me. The kids then disappeared off for the …
Green Building
Argh, struggling to keep abreast of all the things I want to write online each day before laptop battery dies 🙁 Today we have barely seen the kids – Oaken has finished school so the four older ones were off for the whole morning playing down by the river – Davies definitely much happier with …
Weekend Off
It’s been a fantastic weekend off. This is most definitely our most hospitable host for all sorts of reasons 🙂 Saturday It was Wilf (one of the host)’s birthday and we were invited to participate in the celebrations which included rowing on the river and a picnic in the park. We declined, partially because we …
We live in a yurt
Thursday is Veg Box Day here each week – they run a veg box scheme for 40 local people selling small or large bags of fruit and veg and eggs. Everything has to be picked and packed the same day and delivered to four different drop off points – they leave here with the car …
and the beat goes on
Monday More hanging around at Babs where I even got lured into Playing A Game (I know!). Ady took Scarlett and Rachael for a walk in the morning and in the afternoon Babs, Scarlett, Rachael and I dropped Suzy off at the station and headed over to collect a few bits from Willow when we …
Raine-y Days
Friday morning we packed up Willow and prepared to head off. Bob came over to say goodbye and offer us the visitors book to write in – I struggled to think of an appropriate entry and settled on “a unique and insightful WWOOFing experience” which I felt could be taken pretty much any way and …
Well that’s that then
This morning was a free for all in the breakfast room again and as we sat there eating both Bob and Mary appeared and started to try and give us jobs to do, then had a big argument about what should be done by us. Very tempting to get out the popcorn… Davies and Scarlett …
You couldn’t make it up!
When we went in for breakfast this morning it was so messy I had to take some pictures to remember it. One of the stools was upside down on the table with a net of berries strung round the legs straining (jam or juice making I assume), the sink was full of washing up, all …
Mad world
We went over for breakfast this morning and ate with Bob who appeared in the house just after we did. We’d been wondering about the domestic arrangements of who sleeps where as Bob and Mary are no longer a couple – but more on that later. Bob is like one of those teachers at school …