This morning we all slept in til 9am – lovely 🙂 and very tricky when you live in a van as once one person is awake you pretty much all are. Ady had been sick last night (can’t decide if there is an issue with food here or just bad luck as I’d had an upset tummy the day before and of course my sickness last weekend too) so was feeling a bit delicate this morning.
We ate breakfast in the van and the kids did some writing and drawing letters to Wildlife Explorers – we decided yesterday that we would write to Wildlife Explorers who had asked us to stay in touch, and tell them what wildlife we had seen. We’re also planning to email Badgers with some photos and an update and send a newsletter to the neighbours in our street as we know they’d all love to hear from us and can pass it around. Scarlett started well but made a huge fuss about the writing but Ady helped her and she did really well in the end. Davies did an excellent job of writing and illustrating his note including getting out the bird book, looking up various birds and animals in the index and using the pictures to help him.
We’d just finished that when everyone from the house came over – Amanda, Gemma and Zoe to say goodbye as they were leaving, so hugs all round and lots of best wishes for the future, and Emma and Pete to say they were off out for a few hours so if we wanted to make use of the house, bath, washing machine, TV to feel free to do so.
So we did 🙂
We all had baths – I had a lovely long bath with bubbles and the kindle – bliss :), I put two washes on (now drying on our washing line), we watched the repeat of Britains Got Talent as the kids hadn’t seen it last night and I’d been telling them about a couple of the acts and the kids watched the Pirates of the Carribean bonus features disc. Then Pete & Emma came home so we sat and watched Evan Almighty with Pete while Emma went out for a run with a friend. A top Sunday afternoon film :).
When that ended we went out for our promised to Scarlett walk in the woods for a couple of hours. We didn’t see any wildlife but did have a lovely wander about, spotted some mushrooms and tried to identify them with our spotter book, chatted and talked about the week ahead,
what the next month has planned and how we’re looking forward to seeing friends.
Back at the house Emma & Pete said to help ourselves to food and cook for ourselves as they had eaten at lunchtime. We did sausage, bacon, eggs, potatoes and beans which was really nice. I am craving a good curry though – will definitely be on my list of dinner when we’re at Jill’ and cooking for ourselves. We came back to the van for stories (The Twits) and bed. Tomorrow we’re hoping to borrow a car and head into the nearest town for a look round. I need a charity shop trip too – all my jeans are falling down, I see why Barbara Good wore dungarees!