Bumping back to earth

Yesterday was supposed to be the HE Pulborough Brooks meet up but I already suspected we wouldn’t make it and sure enough it was gone 930am when Scarlett finally came upstairs and woke me up having only just got up herself. We woke Davies and decided it wasn’t worth the mad dash it would require to get there and we’d have a quiet day at home instead.

Davies and Scarlett did that reconnecting with each other thing that they always do after being away on a group holiday where they don’t spend much time together. They had ended up playing together in the snow one of the days but aside from that I don’t think they’d seen a great deal of each other last week. There were new DS games to explore together and toys such as geomags and animals to be played with and caught up on :).

I spent most of my day with my laptop. I don’t miss being online when I’m at camp as most of the people I would virtually hang out with were there in real life but it does mean there is a whole load of catching up of blogging and flickring to do afterwards. Some might of course suggest I could reduce the words or pictures but I have a reputation to protect ;). The final Bruge pictures are now uploading and I’m almost up to today though so I’m getting there with catching up.

I did some baking – cheese scones and chocolate cakes for lunch, much processing of the laundry mountain (the dirty pile is now lots smaller but the clean to be put away one is rather towering).

The chickens were rather desperate for attention – for their own safety we’d kept them shutup all day and night from Saturday night to Monday morning – we left in the middle of the night and returned in the middle of the next so they wouldn’t have been safe if left out. We left them with food and water but they were still rather indignant! Candle also required lots of attention – she has been howling at night and sitting as close as she can get to me all day purring her head off, poor cat 🙁

I cooked two dinners for Davies and Scarlett both of whom claimed to not like the first one (shop bought pizza for Davies, he says he only likes my homemade one – and pesto pasta for Tarly who I think was just jumping on the I don’t like my dinner bandwagon for attention ;)) and then chucked them in the bath to clean off all the foreign travelling grime 😉 and let them play with some of Tarly’s bath stuff birthday gifts. They stayed in there for about an hour and came out very clean and wrinkly.

I read bedtime stories of easy to read and easy to listen to books and then they went to bed. Davies was straight back to his usual after 10pm asleep time but Tarly managed a fairly early night. Ady was late home having been caught in traffic and we had comfort food dinner of toad in the hole (odd cooking for just two people after last weeks mass catering) and watched last weeks Survivors ready to be caught up for tonights.