Face: not so itchy, has stopped swelling, is very red and bumpy and skin in crap condition. Suspect it will flake and scab etc. like last time but at least I avoided the swelling like a melon and then sagging afterwards stage. Small mercies eh?! Leaving Middlewick: quite teary actually. Big hugs with Jill, Jonathan, …
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It’s been 48 hours, it must be time for another blogpost!
Saturday I was awake in the night with facial itching and sure enough I woke to a face that was red and bumpy and very itchy 🙁 I took piriton which did ease the itching and stayed out of the sun and hoped it might go away on it’s own (the itching, not my face). …
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It’s another two day catch up
bugger! Thursday A photographer came to take pictures of the place so we had done pre prep stuff for that and were also doing pre prep stuff for the hotel inspector coming on Friday which was still going on. Jill started the day going round with the photographer moving stuff around to get the best …
Tuesday and Wednesday
Tuesday: I think I spent most of the day in the shepherds hut, I did the second coat on the paintwork, painted the ceiling, hoovered and then mopped the floor and listened to the radio. In the late afternoon the laundry delivered new bedding so I got involved in helping make up beds in all …
Day Off
Today was our day off 🙂 Ady’s gotten into The Darling Buds of May which is being repeated on one of the freeview channels we get on the TV at 8am, so he watched that and the rest of us had a lie in 🙂 Jill & Thomas called by just after 9am to bring …
Three days gone by…
Friday – seems such a long time ago now, let me think… ah yes. Ady and I worked together for most of the day clearing a huge heap of wood which the builders had chucked into a pile when building a house a year or so ago. We made a platforn and some stakes to …
Okay then, we’ll stay
and we’ll all drink to that! This morning Tarly and I started loading up the skip with stuff we’d piled up ready while Ady and Davies lit a fire to burn any burn-able rubbish. Jill appeared and we chatted for a bit then I went off to do some housekeeping type duties – stripping loose …
what a difference a week makes
So this time last week we were back in the van in high spirits having been over here for the evening for the first Wednesday pizza night and met Jill. This week we were the ones lighting the oven and it feels like we’ve been here forever… This morning Ady donned waterproofs and headed off …
leopards and spots
We reported for work at 9am this morning and Jill took us round to an area of the grounds next to a garage which had been used as a pottery but now houses bikes, tools etc. Next to it was a huge amount of wood and general rubbish and all alongside a house were huge …
Shortest distance between hosts ever?
This morning we finished off at Paddington Farm. We’d said we’d help clear out the feed shed as they have a visit next week from animal welfare to check on the livestock and facilities, so after letting out and feeding various animals we gathered up all the feed buckets around the farm and Tarly and …
we introduce you to WWOOFing, you take us on as WWOOFers!
Today Ady was very productive feeding the animals and washing Willow ready to touch up some bits of rust with white paint, the kids played and Scarlett spent some time hanging out with Benji
Saturday
A laid back day today. We still don’t really know quite what is expected of us workwise and veer between feeling fine with that and feeling slightly at odds with it. We’ve learnt loads here and T & M seem very nice but we are spending money on food and I feel a bit put …
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I’ve blogged over on WW but wanted to carry on my daily account too. A fairly easy day today, there was a teaching assistant and her charge, a 15 year old selective mute boy here this morning so I spent quite a while chatting to the TA who was really nice and seemed very pleased …
splashing ghostbusters
Today was a ‘left to our own devices’ day which we exploited to the maximum with a very lazy day and a three hour lunch :). We’d been asked to finish off the work in the orchard over the next few days so we decided to do all of that today. We started with the …
unexpected invitations
Animal feeding and leading first thing this morning and then we did some trailer unloading. We’d helped fill it with wood yesterday and it was ready and waiting to unload again so Ady got on with that and the kids and I did some sawing lengths into kindling for the wood burner. We were soon …
Glastonbury
We met up with one of the long term volunteers first thing this morning – I do know his name but he is Polish and while I can just about say it I wouldn’t even know which letters to start using to spell it so I won’t try! We went round with him and fed …
Living by torchlight
This week’s challenges will be of a different sort 🙂 Saturday was an emotional farewell to Steward Wood. Another heavy frost (and so cold night), we had breakfast (pancakes) at Seth & Mel’s and the kids stayed there to play while we packed the tent up. It went fairly quickly and Ady had found a …
Finished!
We’re done 🙂 This morning rain started softly falling on the tent around 7am. Davies had already gone down to breakfast as he’d offered to help cook and so spent an hour down there with Dan lighting stoves and making porridge 🙂 Ady and I chatted for a while and listened to the rain before …
Penultimate
I can’t believe we are so close to finishing here. Tonight we said goodbye to Ollie as he is off early tomorrow for a course so we won’t see him again before we go. He gave us a full collection of bird language stuff on a memory stick which we’ll explore further at the weekend, …
Another good ‘un
Scarlett and Davies both decided to stay with us for the day instead of going to the Home Ed group. I was secretly pleased, both because I’d miss them gone all day and because we were due a good day today with Ollie. After breakfast we headed up right to the edge of the woodland …