In brief

As I’m tired and I’m working tomorrow and somehow it’s already tomorrow!

This morning I made a few phonecalls and various other adminny tasks and then packed up some food and water and we headed up to the allotment. We got there just after 11am and it was by far the busiest I’ve seen it yet. We met our end-to-end neighbours who seemed very nice. The sun was shining, birds were singing, everyone was in a smiley ‘good morning! 🙂 ‘ type mood and it was all very blissful :).

The children both did some mud sculpting – Davies made a chickens head and Scarlett made a penguin; both were excellent and have been left up there to dry out in the sun – hope it doesn’t rain and wash them all away! They then found a huge hairy caterpillar so played with that for a while. They both wandered over to ‘help’ me for a while but quickly realised it was actually quite hard work so wandered back off again fairly sharpish 😆 . I had a very successful couple of hours (not sure where the time went actually, it didn’t feel that long at the time but my back tells me it clearly was) and finished digging and weeding all the way to the end of the half I’ve been working on. That means in my 6 sessions up there I have dug half of the entire allotment. I am very proud and pleased about this and rang Ady specifically to boast about how great I am when I’d finished :).

We paused on the bench to eat some fruit and drink some water and enjoy the sunshine before heading for home in time for Ali and Freya to arrive.

A very nice visit was had with the children all playing DS, sometimes together, sometimes with chatting and sometimes just side by side but all very peacefully :). Davies showed Ali his War Museum and I sent them all outside for ‘ten minutes’ to run off some of the sugar they’d consumed with a bowl of sweets. They appeared to have a timer out there though as they were gone for almost ten minutes to the second before reappearing and reconnecting to their DSs. 😆

I did some ragrugging, threading up the loom with string and then unpicking and re-doing Davies’s rainbow rug that had come undone as the yarn had snapped. I redid it longer and thinner which actually I’m more pleased with anyway :).

I ran Ali and Freya home when Ady got in from work and then arrived home to read a couple of bedtime stories. It was very nice, outdoorsy, interesting chats, nice company, creative and active yet relaxing day all in one :).