Get me with my imaginative titles 😉
We’d been invited to a Boxing Day shoot this morning but it was always highly unlikely we’d get up in time to attend and sure enough none of us were up much before about 10am.
We headed off on a walk, taking Tarly’s new camera to test it out. Across the road from Mum & Dad’s is a footpath leading directly to the downs so we set off that way, double backing after a short distance to get wellies out of the car as the track was far muddier than I’d been expecting. It felt good to be back in wellies and mud again walking up hills and through woodlands :).
Ady seems to be veering between supportive of me regarding my parents and frustrated by me for not bowing to their whims or engaging in peacekeeping tactics. I simply have no patience or tolerance for them and find it terribly frustrating that they spend so much time slagging each other off to me and performing like they did on Friday with all the threats of leaving each other forver then they suddenly close ranks and both start picking on me together. I guess the fact we had originally expected to have only been here a week so far but have already been here for a month is now taking it’s toll. Only about two more weeks til we’re off to Glastonbury though and we’re away for some of that so I think we can muddle through, just.
Oh and Ady has a cough so I do want to kill him anyway ;).
We walked for about an hour, sat in the park for a while which is at the end of the walk and then headed to Sainsburys as Mum has decided to make it a mission to eat or drink anything we buy as quickly as possible. This feels really mingy to have noticed but Ady remarked on it too so it is clearly deliberate. We bought some blue cheese and crackers and she has almost eaten all of them. So we picked up some more of both along with some pickled onions and a couple of other bits I wanted.
Back at the house we had lunch and then I decided to take the two huge bags of laundry along to the launderette. I’d done a load last week but it had been noted and huffed about so I won’t do any more laundry here now. I have told Dad how mental it is and that it is the laughing stock of our circle of friends how we are not allowed to do laundry here. He also finds it crazy but then he lives with crazy full time. As it happens I don’t actually mind the act of taking it and sitting with a book while it processes anyway.
When I came back everyone was watching Harry Potter so I sat in the kitchen with my laptop and some books. I’ve made a start on my round up post of the year which is proving more epic than usual, particularly given I have TWO blogs to re-read to try and summarise 🙂 An enjoyable exercise though, particularly reading the early Jan and Feb parts when it was all angst about whether it would all fall into place or not and how we’d cope with things which I know now we managed just fine :).
Scarlett has been doing great work taming Humphrey and is hoping to get a ball for him tomorrow. She is slightly nervous about being nipped again but I know she’ll overcome that. Listening to her telling Maisie about him on the phone was lovely :).
Dinner was leftover meat and jacket potatoes, the food waste here really gets to me and it all goes to landfill too. I’ve given up even trying to talk to them about recycling, composting or anything like that so bite my tongue but it is hard to watch food chucked away every night.
This evening we watched some Gavin & Stacey and then headed to bed for an early night. Certainly don’t miss TV, I’ve not seen anything since we’ve been back that has been really worth watching.
I enjoyed poirrot last night. Didn’t think I would but I did.
Comment by Michelle — 27 December 2011 @ 10:46 pm