I had a really bad nights sleep, awake twice with a bad tummy, at least twice with nightmares and at least once finding myself squashed halfway down the bed wondering why my feet were hanging so far off the end. Clearly I’m out of practise at being in an actual bed 😉
This morning Ady carried on with some bramble and overgrown-ness clearing while I went to find Jill to be given tasks. I got caught with Jude- the previous owner, who is living here for another few weeks as her horses are in quarentine until they all fly home to Canada together. She is interesting but quite challenging and is quite taken with Davies and Scarlett while asking countless questions about them and Home Ed. She was fascinated last time we were here by us and continues to seem drawn to us and quite how it all works out, clearly puzzled by us not caring about things she seems hung up on, like Scarlett’s unbrushed hair for example ;).
I found Jill and was tasked with checking all the salt and pepper pots in the unoccupied cottages, cleaning them, filling them and replacing them if they were crappy. I had to return moved furniture to it’s proper locations in a couple of cottages after they had the carpets cleaned and then sort out the huge quantity of cutlery in the function room. All of which I did, sneezing as I went thanks to the pepper. Ady and I met for coffee and popmaster at 1030am and Ady rang the letting agents to chase them over the rent we still had not had. He got mildly stroppy and by lunchtime the rent had appeared, coincidence?! 😉
We took quite a long lunchbreak as we didn’t have a great deal to be getting on with and knew we’d be helping lots with Pizza Night this evening. I did an hour or so weeding in some flower beds while Ady finished off what he was doing. The kids have helped lots today; done some weeding of carrot seedlings, some planting on of various things and put some bulbs in, watered plants, spent time with the chickens and also played in the cottage and watched a film.
I lit the pizza oven which was going really well until I left it to wander off and chat to Ady and it went from a very well burning fire to a heap of smouldering logs, unfortunately just as Shirley came over to check on it’s progress, so I got to feel like a silly little schoolgirl while she took over and re-lit it – grr. We called wine o’clock at that point though so my grring didn’t last long. We made pizzas including a fab heart shaped one for me from Scarlett 🙂 and then dealt with some arriving guests and a panic over whether there are enough Z beds here to cope with the bookings. Jill was just about to click BUY on an online bed when I, certain I had seen one in a cupboard in a cottage went to check and came back victorious that I was right – Ha! That trumped keeping the fire burning in the pizza oven when I was right over the owner and the general manager about how many beds and where they are 😆
We had late arrivals to pizza night in the shape of a group of six from Slovakia, with varying degrees of English, which made for a rowdy and enjoyable evening. We tidied up and came in to watch You’re Fired, having missed the main Apprentice show – and probably the whole of the rest of the series given we won’t be near a TV again for a while.