and we’ll all drink to that!
This morning Tarly and I started loading up the skip with stuff we’d piled up ready while Ady and Davies lit a fire to burn any burn-able rubbish. Jill appeared and we chatted for a bit then I went off to do some housekeeping type duties – stripping loose covers off sofas and bundling them into the big washing machine then putting them out to dry before putting them back on, plus hoovering up the resultant feathers from wrestling with sofa covers. There doesn’t seem to be much of a handle on what is in each cottage at the moment so Jill asked the kids to go into each one and count the number of TV channels available on each telly – educational as they needed to write her a list and fun for them as they got the keys for all the cottages and got to go poking around and exploring in them all 🙂
We had lunch and then disappeared back to our various tasks for the afternoon. I rang the host we are due at on Monday and arranged to arrive the following Monday so we are now staying here til Friday when we need to leave as guests arrive here on Saturday. This does mean we will need to find a campsite for 3 nights but we will have recouped enough money in these two weeks plus filled two weeks we had cancellations by hosts for that 3 nights campsite fees are easily absorbed :).
We finished work and all went for a swim which was lovely. I also got two loads of washing and drying done which was also lovely :).
Back to the cottage for the kids tea and Jill appeared behind Maggie (her dog, a labradoodle, much beloved by D&S and reciprocated by Maggie) who came in to the cottage through the open back door so we invited her in for a glass of wine. She went to lock up her cottage and came back, staying for much wine, dinner and lots of chatting with an agreement to come again for dinner tomorrow :).
We have definitely slipped back into late dinners, drinking each evening and sticking the TV on, but we are still eating less, working hard and it is for a finite period before we move on to the next host, who on the basis of my short phone call with them this morning sound very nice :).