As in a blog of the people we’ve broken 😉
Yesterday we had got plans to head out to Wells and Street and do a charity shop trawl. Ady had made sandwiches to take with us and I was nagging everyone to get going when Sorry I’ve Got No Head came on TV just as we were about to turn it off. That was reason enough to sit back down and watch the £1000 sketch! It meant that we were still here when Jill called by to see what we were up to and invited herself along with us, which meant the sandwiches got left behind and we only made it to Wells. It also meant she bought us lunch out and we went round the farmers market in Wells and picked up all sorts of stuff for Spicy Saturday though 🙂 I treated everyone to some sweets from the old fashioned sweetie shop and we came home via Morrisons for supplies of Tiger Beer, wine and other such essentials :).
Then Ady got cooking – the kitchen in our cottage is pretty small, not big enough for two people really and he is very happy with his music on and things sizzling and sauteing. We took everything over to J&Js and it kept warm in their oven while we started with bhajees, samosas and poppadums. Tucker (one of their friends who we have got to know over the last 3 times we’ve been here too) came over with his girls who are the same age as D&S – Scarlett gets on really well with the youngest, Flora.
It was a characteristic evening here – alcohol flowed, there was singing, dancing, laughing, being silly, eating and chatting. Ady and I were telling stories about our year, the time we went caving, the remote Welsh hillside arrival with kids like snipers ambusing us, Crazy Mary and her mange tout and eggs for dinner. It was fab 🙂
We arranged Taco Tuesday (our last night) and I think it was about midnight when we tumbled back towards our cottage.
Today was a much quieter affair, Jill was pretty broken and cancelled Six Pint Sunday at the pub (which was for the best, we’d been stressing about going without the funds to pay our way although they are totally aware of our financial situation and had been the ones insisting on pub visits) but we went ahead with our shared Sunday lunch plan. It was supposed to be between 1 and 2 but then a couple who are planning to hire the whole cottage complex for their wedding reception rang to ask if they could bring his parents to look round between 2 and 3 so we held back. They ended up appearing at nearly 330 when I’d sat in the office for an hour waiting to greet them and given up on them and poor Ady who had already pushed dinner back by an hour had to push it back even further. As ever deeply impressed with his ability not to just burn it at that point!
We finally all sat down about 5pm I think. Had dinner, a couple of games of cards and then we returned back to our cottage to watch Hughs Three Hungry Boys before the kids went to bed.
I’ve mastered a crochet pattern or two and made a couple of bags – string bag style ones, one small for fruit and veg and one which will be bigger when it’s finished. Enjoying making something I know I will actually use :).
Two days to go and then back to our old house…
did your tenants move out OK in the end? Or is that date not past yet?
Comment by Joyce — 30 January 2012 @ 7:38 am
They are due to leave tomorrow. Keep fingers firmly crossed!
Comment by Nic — 30 January 2012 @ 11:11 am