This morning Ady was helping Gav move lots of parts of their house that has been arriving over the last few weeks. It alternated between midgey and rainy so the kids and I hung out indoors. I had a couple of pressing things to do online (actually I have more than a couple but I did prioritising as Scarlett had particularly asked me to do some stuff with her). We did some chatting, some breakfasting and some doodling and stuff. I am ever reminded that the times they spend wanting to hang out with me are both slipping away and even more important than ever so try to put everything else aside. I don’t want to have invested so much in the early years only to blow it now, particularly when they are actually at their most interesting to spend time with stage ever.
We packed up lunch and headed down to meet Ady only to find him walking up to meet us. We checked on all the animals (seven hatched chicks so far, soooo cute!) and decided to take the car down to the pier and leave it there – we are almost out of diesel until more comes off the boat so rather than play roulette is made sense to just leave it there til it arrives. Plus it was raining and it meant we could leave Bonnie in the car with a walk at the end rather than in her crate at the static.
It was just us four and a family of three (small toddler) on the boat. They did lots of shy smiling at us and when she sat inside the undercover bit and breastfed the toddler I had a moment of awww-ness for small children but they didn’t chat so we didn’t either. Aside from a couple of porpoise spottings we saw nothing but as ever it is a nice two hours to do nothing but look at the sea and chat and I love it for that regardless of wildlife.
Ady and the kids and Bonnie headed for home while I walked along to Fliss’ to join Fliss and Casey for crochet. It was nice and Casey has picked up both knitting and crochet really quickly. Fliss had guests to feed (the BBC folk actually) so Casey and I left and went to her and Mike’s for a cup of tea and chat which was really good. I feel Casey and I have really clicked 🙂
We walked round to the hall for the RCA meeting which was fairly straightforward this month. Ady had come down too and we chatted with various folk after the meeting before heading for home and dinner time. The internet is crazy slow tonight but we just about managed to listen to me on the radio and watch me on the telly.