Ady and I went down to feed Bob this morning and not only did we coax him up onto his trotters we also got him out of his fenced area and walking about 20 foot. He’s still far from right but this felt like a massive leap (stagger!) forward. Certainly won him his 24 hour reprieve for today anyway. He’s not made much progress the rest of the day although he has moved around a bit within  the grassy area at the front of the croft he has now commandeered.
After Popmaster we walked down to the village to get some shopping, clear our shop tab (rent went in today and we had 2 veg orders, a slab of sweetcorn and a load of cheese to pay for), put this week’s veg order in, collect the shop keys so I can do Post Office on Thursday and get bits from the freezer for dinner tonight and tomorrow.
Back home for lunch and what was an overcast but promising day turned into a really grey drizzly day with a couple of hours of rain. Scarlett made cookies and I got dinner on (roasted root and rice gratin, delicious but such a long time to prep – peel and chop and roast veg, make cheese sauce, cook rice, assemble). We watched a documentary on Spectacled Bears and I did some crochet. Forgot to blog a long conversation with Davies last night about whole numbers, fractions, decimal places and percentages showing him how to simplify fractions  and add them together. On a really basic level but an interesting conversation (for 11pm!) which gave him the gist of the idea to build on next time it comes up.
The weather had enough of a break in the rain for Scarlett, Ady and I to go out and feed the animals. The pig feeding is very convoluted just now as we need to feed the birds first so they don’t all follow us to the pigs, then go to feed Barbara, Waddles and Ben Fogle first because they might break through if we feed Blackie first, then Blackie and then down to the bottom of the croft to feed Bob. Complicated! Hopefully we get Bob up asap and then it’s just two adjacent pens to feed pigs in. Bob managed a bit more staggering before lying down, he’s definitely improving.
Back in for board games, shower and finishing off dinner which I had mostly prepped earlier – I made sausage meat (our own) patties to go with it which Ady and I really liked but the kids did not. We watched some River Cottage (we were given a Hugh FW book last year which was one of his really early foraging ones so we got the dvd to go with the book and then started re-watching all the RC series as the kids had not seen them before and they were so inspirational to Ady and I in what we have ended up doing. Then Haven which is quite good but too similar to Warehouse 13 at the moment so we’ll watch this first disc then send it back and try something else.