A nice long lie in bed this morning reading restored me no end 🙂
Ady cooked everyone bacon sandwiches for late breakfast / early lunch. Having called a chip sandwich a ‘butty’ on the ferry on Monday the kids are very taken with the word and are now using it in place of sandwich at every opportunity :). It’s by no means a new word to them but I do remember being delighted with new words as a child myself and using them whenever possible.
I burnt some rubbish and then we set about putting the new fruit cage extension up. I planted out the two new blueberries we got and we put up four and a half of the six panels before it started to rain and we called it teabreak time and ran for cover. Except it never stopped raining really. Well it did but not for a good hour or so by which time we had got dinner on and were watching dvds with the kids so we called time on it for today and will finish off tomorrow. It should only take half an hour to complete.
Dinner was roast pork (our own pig) and delicious.
Scarlett has taken off with writing, thanks to a DS game – Scribblenauts which has you working through riddles and dilemmas by giving characters props or making them do things. She has made a notebook filled with all the word she uses lots and her spelling is really very good. She is way better at working out the sounds and therefore the letters than Davies ever was – she is also streaking through very fast and suddenly reading stuff too. Keep the faith took the odd battering here and there and it’s not over yet but it all looks like it’ll come good…
I finished the second sock. It’s a little shorter in the foot than the first due to miscalculating when to start reducing but has sufficient stretch to still fit just fine. They are very cosy. I’ve started another using a different pattern but need to work out some of the stitches still. We got Boppit back from Mike yesterday so Davies and I have been playing that too – he now holds the all time Goddard high score 160, and we have been playing a fair few rounds of one on one with it too. After we kept annoying Ady and Scarlett by shushing them Davies plugged headphones in which takes it to a whole new immersion level 🙂
At 630pm I walked down to Ali’s for a meeting with her and Lesley about the Development Officer interviews and caught up a little more on stuff in the two months while I wasn’t a director. We have three candidates coming tomorrow overnight and we’re interviewing them all on Tuesday morning but will meet them from the boat tomorrow and show them round the village a bit. I’m also planning on meeting with Mel to talk about some business ideas for Croft 3 in the castle hostel this season. I got all the way down there without a torch – longer daylight days are coming!
Back at home the kids had only just gone to bed so I said goodnight to them before a quick catch up online. Hoping for an equally efficient week next week but suspect the various meetings and interviews may interfere with that.