Davies woke me this morning and had been up really late last night creating anniversary card and gifts which included a little pink ribbon tied into a bracelet for me with ‘Nic Loves Ady, Ady loves Nic’ written around it and a voucher for a kiss (Davies stopped kissing us about 18 months ago, he is still really affectionate and cuddles and everything but kisses are reserved for very special occassions!). Scarlett said she’d been far too tired to make anything so just gave me lots of cuddles instead 🙂 I love the way Davies had created stuff out of rubbish really – the card was an old envelope, the ribbon and voucher had been a swing ticket on a new bra I’d bought.
Our first job this morning was to move an old dog kennel from the garden onto the trailer to go to the new house where there are plans to use it as a chicken coop. It was *quite* heavy but Ady and I could have managed it. Ed however is very weak – I can easily out-lift him but he won’t let me try and lift anything so it was a bit of a kerfuffle getting it over the wall and into the trailer. And it was raining. Ady and I kept laughing and saying ‘well it’s not Vegas!’ to each other 😆
We drove to the new house and it had stopped raining and was clearing up so we lifted the kennel off and went in to do some painting. Today we painted the ceiling in the front room using extendable rollers which are all sorts of fun. We ended up covered in paint, particularly Ady who was foolish enough to keep getting in my way (okay, it was deliberate!). There was a guy there doing some carpentry who also works sometimes at the garage and is a part time fireman too. He’d been reading our blog last night (as recommended by the garage) and seemed a little starstruck by us, made a real point of shaking our hands when he left and saying goodbye to the kids. I don’t think he understood that anyone can publish a blog on the internet – or maybe we are that awesome?! 😉
We had a wander down to the beach for half an hour or so while Ed finished tidying up which was lovely, we really do love it here lots :).
Back at the house we had time for a quick shower and got changed before walking into the town for dinner. Ed and Carina had booked dinner at one of the several local restauarants which serve all local food. It was a limited early bird menu and Davies and Scarlett were rather disappointed to be presented with the kids menu containing chicken nuggets or sausages. Scarlett did have the chicken (although she ended up not eating it as it was battered and rather greasy) but Davies had fish off the adult menu – frankly he has a bigger appetite than Ed and Carina so I understood him being put out although they both did well at staying polite and grateful. Ady and I had steak pie which was very nice. It was lovely to be out on our anniversary and toast it 🙂 Ed and Carina have been fab hosts, really grateful for all we have done (which in our opinion has been very little really!) and we mark their last WWOOFers in their current house and last scheduled WWOOFers as they are taking a short break to settle in to their new house before booking anyone else. We’ve been invited back any time – as friends, not WWOOFer, which is lovely :).
We walked to the exercise playpark and all had a go on the equipment and spent time looking at the moon (almost full and very big and bright) and the bay before walking back. Tea and coffee and a bit of TV watching for the kids before bedtime.