Weekendiness

Another lie in this morning, until the sun shining in between the tiny gap of the bottom of the curtain and the start of the window finally did the job of rousing me that Ady being up boiling kettles and two children sitting on me had started but been unable to finish :).

We did some washing line maintenance as it has been really windy here and the line needed more props, but all yesterdays washing is now dry and put away :). Pete came over as the campers were packing up so he collected money from them and Ady asked if we could borrow a car for a couple of hours. All of the various vehicles on the farm are covered by a sort of fleet insurance for any driver and they had said we were welcome to borrow any of the cars any time.

We listened to Popmaster on the radio and had a long chat about what we are thinking about doing once this year is over, but that’s a subject for another post once we’ve honed it a bit more. Then we took a car and drove to nearby Launceston, nearby but in Cornwall across the border. We went to Tescos for various supplies to top the van up; things like bread and milk, stuff like cereal and biscuits that we keep for the kids when they get hungry if we are given food they are less keen on and some really nice food for a picnic; fruit, fancy crisps, olives, pie and so on. We also treated the kids to the latest HP dvd just out, which had them both ecstatic, particularly just 2 days after getting Pirates of the Caribbean on dvd too.

We had a quick drive round the town but everything seemed closed, it being a bank holiday, so we headed for a nearby lake which I’d driven past and been told was a nice walk. But when we pulled in we realised we had no cash and it was a pay and display carpark so we gave up and came back to the farm to walk in the woods, which was the kids first vote anyway.

We put the shopping away, packed a bag with the picnic food and headed into the woods. We got side tracked by a path which looked like it might lead somewhere interesting we’d not been yet but ended up being a long and windy path to the path we always walk down. By this point we were all really hungry and it was about 3pm so as soon as we found a patch of grass in the sunshine we stopped and ate.

We then had a lovely wander around, chatting to the various people we came across also walking, pausing for quite a while by a bridge so the kids could play in the stream.

Then we headed back. The kids went in to ask if they could watch their dvd on the TV in the house, followed not long afterwards by Ady who was bored of my being on my laptop catching up on blogging and giving monosyllabic replies to him ;), so I had a lovely hour all to myself :). I wandered over just before dinner was ready and we had a nice couple of hours with Pete & Emma eating veal casserole, home made apple and rhubarb pie and chatting while watching the kids dvds. They were asking us what we think we will do at the end of our year and we were chatting about their future plans. It’s much more relaxed with just us here and I think we will have a nice last week and actually get to know them a bit better without everyone else here.

We have planned to split Davies and Scarlett between Ady and I for the week so tomorrow Scarlett and I are off to market with Pete while Ady and Davies do stuff around the farm. I want to make sure they get the most out of being here before we move on.