A fairly laid back Saturday here. I had a long lie in – which I’d like to think was well deserved, but given the lateness of my night was certainly needed! 😉
Ady did some room rearranging with Davies in his bedroom. A lego catalogue had come in the post this morning which Davies spent ages poring over it and then went and got the lego out. He spent ages building a wall, and telling me how he was staggering the bricks to make it strong. The lego is a mixture of the lego Frazer and I had as children and stuff people have bought Davies and Scarlett over the years. I don’t really recall Frazer doing much with the lego when we were children, he was more into his Action Men and toy cars but I recall spending hours building stuff – I always started with a plan in my head of what I was about to build and it rarely turned out anything like it but I loved the sense of achievement of building things from small pieces. Clearly the fact my Dad is / was a builder played no small part in my interest.
After lunch we went up the downs to where Dad collects logs. It is a small area which a bloke who does landscape gardening and lumberjacking takes his chopped down trees and plants and periodically burns them off, so Dad has been going there for years as whatever Dad takes away is just less for the guy to burn. Why on earth he doesn’t chop them into smaller pieces himself and sell logs I don’t know, but still. Dad’s chainsaw is out of action so we went up there with an axe. The children wandered around finding pieces of wood, identifying plants such as holly, mistletoe (definitely going up there to gather lovely Christmas decorations). I did lots of clambering around on log piles while Ady wielded his axe! I was telling Ady how it was always me who went off log collecting with my Dad when I was little. I have a mentally drafted blog post about my parents which I’ll save further sentimentalising about for 😉 Alison, you’ll be wanting to avoid that one! 😉
We dropped the logs home, I called into Sainsburys for fruit and veg for next week (yes, I do buy veg, I just don’t eat much of it 😉 ) and then we went to see my Dad for a couple of hours.
We used to collect driftwood off the beach.
Comment by Lucy — 11 November 2006 @ 9:38 pm
I need to find these places for when we move!
Comment by Roslyn — 12 November 2006 @ 7:09 pm