Had another lovely day here 🙂
This morning we mostly lazed around and then I remembered I’d promised ebay buyers I’d get their wins in the post today so I dashed around parcelling up three loads of outgrown clothes and headed off to the post office. Came back for lunch and then Ady took the children out in the garden to mow lawns, ‘tidy edges’ (I put that in inverted commas cos I don’t actually know what it means :oops:!) play in the sandpit and run around getting muddy. 🙂 I stayed in the house and made a bright yellow sponge cake with some eggs Ady brought home from our friend Bruce who has very free range ducks and chicken. I used chickens eggs for the cake and it is lovely. I made some snickerdoodles which I am sure you will all be delighted to hear rose, cooked properly and are delicious, quite the best I’ve ever made.
I decided the weather forecast of light rain was clearly rubbish so I stripped the childrens beds and got them washed, dried and back on again as well as a couple of other washes and then I made coffee for Ady and took it out with a plate of snickerdoodles to my adoring family, pulled up a garden chair and sat reading ‘Catcher in the Rye’ in the sunshine. Scarlett was potting up some herb plants into bigger pots, Ady and Davies were painting a wall in the garden which we last painted when we moved in 12 years ago so was in dire need of being done. When we did it back then we painted ‘Nic and Ady’ on it – it’s a three panel wall of about 8 x 6 foot sections of brieze blocks and faces a fairly main road so we thought it would endear us to our new neighbours to graffiti it like that at the time. It clearly had no impact as the man next door called Ady ‘Michael’ for the whole time he lived next door to us – he died last year – and the neighbours on the other side called him ‘Andy’ for about 5 years too. 🙄 Which reminds me we got an Easter card from David et al this week. Now I never send Easter cards. Ever. But I just know he will take it as a snub if we don’t send him one back, which means we need to send one to at least two of the other neighbours who all talk to each other and David will brag to about getting an Easter card from us and then will make them feel left out – and I bet they all get the kids Easter eggs too. So I must get Davies to make some Easter cards to deliver thus freeing me of the cost and religious implication of purchasing them and providing an educational activity in the art, craft and religious belief and tolerance tick boxes for my child. 😉
So I’ve done baking and Ady’s done gardening. I am further perpetuating this by cooking smashed up potatoes with red onions and garlic (boil the pots to mash stage but then smash them up with a wooden spoon whilst frying off with red onion, garlic, butter and herbs in the pan used to cook the sausages, with a splash of red wine to deglaze the pan) and toad in the hole made with duck eggs. I guess we’ll be calling each other ‘Muvver’ and ‘Farver’ soon like in Milly Molly Mandy and I’ll have to get myself a floral housecoat ;-). My granny sat watching me prick my finger every three seconds and swear bad words at pieces of material while slaving over Wallace yesterday – a tribute to the mother with no feminine skills at all with his badly sewn already needed patching bits and pieces, his one hand twice the size of the other and his much embroidered and over embroidered face (but made with much love nonetheless) and seriously asked me if I’d thought about selling home made toys for a living. Well clearly only if they’d been made by someone else!!!
Scarlett and I came in and snuggled up to read some stories including Dr Seuss ‘Wacky Wednesday’ which for anyone who’s not read it is a sort of spot the odd thing in the picture type read rather than a story, so we enjoyed doing that and I was unbelievably tickled to hear her saying ‘look at that, that’s wacky’ whilst pointing at things. 🙂 Davies and Ady came in and Davies joined us in some books while Ady served up the sausages I’d cooked for the kids’ tea and I carried on reading to them while they ate. Then we all had some of my wonderful cake.
Tomorrow we’re over at C&Js in the morning and are debating inviting my parents over for roast dinner in the evening. Weather permitting we’ve half a plan to take a picnic lunch and go to Goodwood in the afternoon and I am ridiculously excited about a get together on Monday night! 🙂