We were supposed to be at Pulborough Brooks this morning. I even put bread in the breadmaker on timer before I went to bed last night so we could take lunch with us. But when the alarm went off at 8am there was wind and rain lashing against the windows so I knew we wouldn’t be going. Quite aside from the not needing to drive 10 miles to get cold and wet I was not at all convinced my car would make it in the rain anyway.
So I rang Julie to check she wasn’t going as she has taken over organising the monthly meet up and I’d promised we’d be supportive of it, arranged to meet up with them next week instead and then rang Tasha to arrange something else with them as we were planning to pick them up and take them with us. We went for going round with bread and soup to their house.
We watched Sorry I Haven’t Got A Head which makes us all laugh and then packed up soup, bread and knitting and headed over to Tasha’s. Shockingly the car started and we had a very lovely few hours round there. Toby has a tv in his bedroom so I think watching that formed the bulk of the kids time there although there was some playing outside and some ‘truth, dare or joke’ game which had them coming into the room a couple of times to say silly things 😆
Tasha made some croutons from my bread to go with the soup and stuck a sponge pudding on to cook for afters. We sat and ate and chatted and laughed lots. Will really miss them next year.
We left when I got a text from S to say she was sending her husband round to collect the clothes for the nearly new sale so handed all that stuff over and then we shot back out to the post office to get all the paid for ebay stuff sent off. Room in the playroom to dance again now :).
Back home the kids put the chickens away, I chopped some wood, both Tarly and I had a go at lighting the fire and failed (damp sticks) and then Davies got it going, I did their tea and Ady arrived home.
I read a couple of Colin Thompson books at bedtime – we are having debate about suitable bedtime reading with Davies not wanting anything that plays on his mind before he tries to get to sleep and Scarlett not wanting anything too funny or pacey that gets her too excitable. And of course both of them enjoying the debate ;).
I cooked – sausages to go with leftovers from Saturday and we watched the Good Life programme with Sue and Giles which we enjoyed lots. Some excellent TV at the moment.