Pancakes for breakfast today, might be the last for a while as all the birds have stopped laying now. Jinty will buy in eggs so there will be some on the island but I’m not sure we’ll bother. It might be nice to view eggs as seasonal produce 😉
Then down to the village. Claire caught me and asked for a quick word then dissolved on me as her and James had split up. Gave her much cuddles and sympathy – poor kid 🙁 She was away on the ferry to stay with her parents, sure she’ll be fine in a week or so.
Sean dropped Eve off and me, Davies, Scarlett and Eve made the guy. Eve’s a funny little four year old, I like her but suspect she gets sat infront of far too many Disney dvds…
Sean came to collect her – a load of insulation had come off the boat so they’d all been a while helping unload that, Ady included. We went round to Fliss & Sandy’s to empty the stuff we’d got in their freezer into our new freezer which is now up to temperature. Looking forward to doing a big CoOp shop to start filling that up.
We stopped for a cup of tea and then left to come home for some lunch. A couple of hours at home and then waterproofs on to go back down for the fireworks. We sat for a while in the camping shelter and then Sandy came down to say it had been postponed due to the weather and did we want to go back there for soup. We went back for a while but were conscious of the weather being dreadful so headed for home at about 730pm.
Just as well. The culvert was so flooded it was over welly height with a rushing current. We debated turning back to do the north trail but had no collar and lead for Bonnie and were not sure what condition that might be in either. Ady stood one side, I stood the other and we passed the kids and dog across feeling rather helpless to be good parents. Once over that we hit a very flooded part of the path and it occured to me that the bridge may be under water. It was not quite and we did cross it but it was less than a foot below the bridge. The river had burst at one point and the path was more like a river than a path. The other side of the bridge was the same, flowing very fast, burst drainage ditch which in daylight would probably have been exciting to witness but in the dark with kids and dog just felt scary really.
We got home and were all so buzzed up sending the kids to bed would have been pointless so we watched Lovefilm which had arrived – we bought a zoo. It was a really nice film but with a dead mummy in it both kids were effected having brushed close to danger already this evening. Davies snuggled on my lap and Scarlett cried at bedtime at the thought of me ever dying. 🙁
Knackered now, it’s been a very long day, infact it’s been quite a long week. Fingers crossed for a dry day tomorrow and a nice firework night too.