Today was our day off 🙂
Ady’s gotten into The Darling Buds of May which is being repeated on one of the freeview channels we get on the TV at 8am, so he watched that and the rest of us had a lie in 🙂
Jill & Thomas called by just after 9am to bring us food money for the week and some cushions and throws which had arrived in the post and Jill wanted my opinion of for the cottages, apparently I can now add ‘interior design consultant’ to my CV – I am so getting Jill to give me a reference if I ever have to apply for a proper job again! 😉 Their timing was rubbish though as I had just gone into the loo and discovered there was no loo roll and had not got fully dressed yet so my jeans were still in the lounge. So I sat in the loo listening to them chatting to Ady for a while trying to work out how to deal with that…
Jill invited us to a barbecue tonight as some real guests arrived for the week today – twin 12 year old boys and their 8 year old brother, all school friends of Thomas from London and their parents who have rented out one of the biggest cottages for the week, so she was doing a barbecue and wanted us to come along.
We had a second cup of tea and then listened to Popmaster before galvanising ourselves into getting out. We had to do our food shop for the week and also wanted to have a walk so we debated which to do first with me putting forward a suggestion and everyone agreeing it would make sense to get the food shopping out of the way. So we headed into town to do that, then came back to put the shopping away and have lunch (chicken soup made from yesterdays roast dinner) before heading off on our walk.
We’d heard about the two ancient oak trees just a couple of fields away, Gog and Magog so we set off to find them, going via Paddington next door to meet Rupert, a new heavy horse that they have had arrive to live with them. The oaks are huge, gnarled and all the many holes and cavities are stuffed with money, crystals, notes, ribbons and other assorted treasures that people have placed there. We took some pictures and then walked back to Middlewick by a different path to give a circuitous walk.
Back at the cottage we had a cup of tea made by Tarly and Ady cooked up some onions to take along to the barbecue. We had a really nice evening, the kids all had a late evening swim and then Ady, Jill, Shirley & I sat up after the others had gone to their cottages being rowdy and drinking my mothers day baileys 🙂 We fit in very well here 😉
Perfick 😉