I liked the title so much I have littered the internet with it – twitter (both accounts), blogs (both blogs) and may start graffiti-ing it in places too – look out for a flashmob style sweep of the word in the Bangor area – I reckon I could re-write the lyrics to ‘Didn’t we have a lovely time the day we went to Bangor’ to accomodate it.
Today we started with a very new-Goddard breakfast which was delicious. We may never eat coco pops again 😉
Our first job was taking red and black currants off their stems and putting them into containers ready for freezing. We followed that with pulling up some onions and putting them in the polytunnel to dry.
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The kids were then on duck watch – there is one still escaping so the only real solution is to keep watching and work out how she is doing it. We suspect she is flying and are happy to teach Lisa and John how to clip their wings which is something they have never done before but we have had to do to our chickens over the years when they have got flighty. They had both collected a ‘pet’ snail each and were busy creating snail worlds out of rocks and garden detrius. Ady and I did some sowing of seeds and some planting on of various things in the greenhouse with Lisa and then back outside for some weeding of one of the raised beds. Once weeded we dug some trenches and sowed some carrot seeds. Lisa fills the trenches with seed compost to give the newly sewn seeds a fighting cahance. Judging by the success of the earlier sewing it seems to be a winning idea!
That about took us to lunchtime. I really like the lunches here – home baked bread, loads of home made chutneys, mustards, honey and spread, home grown salad leaves etc. In the middle of lunch Ian the tree pruning neighbour called in looking for John who was not here. He agreed to look at the peach, nectarine and fig trees in the polytunnel which Lisa was planning on having us thin as they are laden with fruit so Ady and scrambled along after them as our philosophy is to never miss a learning opportunity. Ian is a real character, very funny, eccentric and full of sarcastic asides. He’s invited us over for a look at his set up so we will have to sort that out as I reckon we could learn loads from an hour in his company.
This afternoon was mowing for Ady, some raspberry picking and then weeding for me. The kids continued on duck patrol.
We finished at 4pm and hung out in the static – we’re really appreciating the extra space to spread out in. We joined the hosts for dinner at 6pm and then I walked along to Tesco after dinner as we were out of loo rolls and felt odd about asking for more. Also the kids had requested apples and oranges and I quite liked the idea of some excerise as I’d sat down lots today and always enjoy an hour to myself here and there even if it is in Tescos.
I realised on the way back that it was about a year since we came up with this idea and a check back on the blog shows I blogged about the idea a year ago this very day!
We’ve had a really nice evening in the static, Scarlett had a shower, we listened to music, played on laptops, chatted, laughed, the kids put on a mime show, did some drawing…. just hung out really.
What did you have for dinner though? Hope it was better than cabbage soup with no bread!
It was better yes 🙂 Two small jacket potatoes each, served with butter, yeast extract, beetroot grated with tahini and yoghurt, tuna and mayonnaise. Between six of us was less food that Ady and I would have eaten each before we started! They certainly don’t fatten up their WWOOFers here!