Saturday I worked in the morning. It was pretty busy. I spent some time on the counter, some time on the desk and some time sending emails to try and drum up ticket sales for the Anne Perry event next month and putting up more posters to advertise it within the library.
I came home and we had lunch. I forget what they’d all spent the morning doing but everyone seemed busy and happy here at home too. Ah yes I remember, Ady had told Scarlett that he’d seen chick FurReal toys at Tescos. She’d really wanted a chick for Christmas but we’d not been able to get one anywhere. Ady had told her they were £6 so she’d emptied out her moneybox of all it’s copper and odd bits of silver to see how much she had. Her and I put them in piles of pennies, twos, fives and tens and worked out how many of each we needed to make piles of 10p and then how many piles per pound and then counted them all out. She had £7.32. She then suddenly got upset and said she wanted the Fur Real but didn’t want to spend all her money so we said maybe she could get the chick as an easter present rather than chocolate eggs. She seemed happy with this idea so put all the money away again 😆
We popped to the allotment to check on progress of things there. The potatoes had peeped through so Ady covered them over, I did a spot of weeding round the onions and garlic and our curiosity got the better of us so Davies and I dug up an autumn planted onion to have a look. It was still a very small bulb rather than an onion but I’m happy that it was a worthy sacrifice to make to satisfy our curiosity :). We spent some time planning and looking at other plots and then as none of us were really dressed for being up there we left.
We went to the tip where we got rid of several bags of rubbish. Ady doen’t read my blog (although he could, he just has better things to do with his time ;)) and I’d not said anything to him but he must have picked up on me being pissed off about all the rubbish round on the patio as he had cleared a load of it and we got rid of a fair bit. We then all went to Sainsburys and got various bits for dinner last night and today.
Back home Ady and Scarlett spent some time outside (he was gardening, she was with the chickens) while Davies and I read some books together. They had dinner and watched various stuff on TV ending up with the first in the new series of Primeval. Glad that’s back, it doesn’t quite fill Doctor Who’s space but it does a fair job. Ady got various torches set up and we turned all the lights (and the TV and computers actually) off for Earth Hour. The kids went to bed and were both asleep really early, we had torchlit baths and Ady even cooked by torchlight.
We had a starter of noodles and duck breasts that we’d had in the freezer for ages but hadn’t been enough for a main course followed by crispy duck in pancakes which had been on special offer at Sainsburys. It was all lovely :). In preparation of the hour going forward which always messes with my head for a week or so afterwards we went to bed early.
Sunday Up and about early and out to Swanbourne Lake at Arundel to meet up with Chris, Julie, Maisie, Jack and Lorna. They were, predictably, late which made me a little cross but once they arrived and we got walking it was lovely. The sun was shining, the kids all ran off ahead and did loads of clambering up the banks and gathering sticks, Chris and Ady enjoyed each others company as they’ve not seen each other for several weeks and Julie and I chatted. It was a very nice hour or so :).
They left and we went back in to sit on a bench and have a cup of tea from our flask and some fruit. We then decided to take one of the rowing boats out for half an hour. It was £10 for the four of us which I thought was pretty reasonable and we had a very nice half hour mostly going round in circles with everyone having a go at rowing 🙂
The kids finished feeding the ducks and swans the last of the food and we came home. We dropped Ady and Scarlett off to start getting the dinner on and Davies and I went to Sainsburys for picnic supplies for tomorrow and various bits for our houseguests for tomorrow night too. Davies laughed at me and said I should probably find somewhere to complain as I ranted about British apples being twice the price of ones from South Africa, people standing about in packed aisles chatting and getting in the way and something else which I don’t now recall 😆
Back home I read my book, the kids played and Ady gardened then we all sat down to roast beef together which was lovely. Scarlett had a bath, I snipped Davies’ fringe out in the garden so the hair all blew away and he had a shower, I brushed both their hair and instead of a bedtime story we all watched a home video of various things including Christmas and a really old one from 2 years ago with the Halloween camp at Helmsley, Scarlett’s 4th birthday and princess party and Christmas 2006.
I watched Lost, had a bath and in deference to that wayward hour floating about I’m off to bed!