Castle shift for Ady and I this morning. Instead of the dusting in the castle we were helping with the office move though. The White House (current SNH office) is being turned back into housing and the office is moving to the Big Green Shed agricultural building outside of the village. With Lesley on maternity leave, Doug on holiday and Mel gone SNH have very depleted staffing levels these days, so Ady, Claire and I were on helping the Reserve Team this morning. This basically entailed moving some stuff around in the old common room / bar space in the castle courtyard and then loading the trailer a few times at the White House, then walking back to the castle to unload it again. In four hours we did very little as Manager Mike is very flappy and panicked by everything.
Ady and I went and looked at the bridge we are repainting for the Friends and started to pull off the wire which needs removing  but it was tipping with rain and we’d not brought gloves with us which we’ll need for that task. So we came home. We half planned to go back down if the weather improved like it did yesterday but it never did.
Scarlett was doing room tidying, after I gave her grief about the state of her bedroom yesterday. She is such a hoarder and in a cupboard sized room that really is a problem. She took it on board though and was doing an excellent job of decluttering and properly cleaning stuff up. Davies had tidied his room too.
We had some food and I got stuck into baking for Teashop / Market Day tomorrow making 30 flat breads, 4 loaves and some more cookies. Then I made dinner, so a whole afternoon in the kitchen. Having lived in a very open plan space for all this time now (camper van and now caravan totals 4 and a half years!) I could not imagine going back to a living space where the kitchen was separate to where everyone else hung out. Sectioning off the kitchen from the living space seems such a mad idea. Â It was really sociable chatting, listening to music, Scarlett bobbing in and out with her stuff, me cooking, Davies making some mad film on his tablet, Ady doing some online research and then Ady and Davies playing a game of scrabble. A lovely afternoon 🙂
We watched the second part of Doctor Who and a couple of episodes of Friends. We’re on the last series of Eureka and hopefully the latest disc of that will come from LoveFilm in the post tomorrow 🙂