not all in a good way 🙁
Alarm waking again this morning. I always have a mental tally of how many mornings left before the alarm doesn’t need to be set. This week it won’t be til Sunday, so roll on three more mornings :).
We packed a picnic and headed off to collect Tasha, Toby and Vinnie who were joining us for lookering duty. We arrived and Scarlett and Davies headed up to the field first with Toby. Normally it’s just a case of a head count of nine sheep, checking they are all up and moving, checking they have sufficient water and a quick once over the perimeter fence for damage. Today the children had already head counted and got them all up but the biggest white sheep had a distinct limp. We got her running but I wanted to have a quick look at it to see if it was anything very serious so we had to catch her. Cue two women and four children performing a comedy sketch right there in rounding up and catching a sheep 😆 Tasha managed to grab her but let go and she took off again with Scarlett still holding her and dragged Scarlett along a little way. Scarlett whoa-ed her sufficiently to stop her again until I got there and hoisted her onto her back so I could look at her hooves. The back right was looking pretty dodgey but she seemed otherwise fine and calmly sat while the kids petted her so wasn’t too traumatised by the whole thing. I texted the shepherd to let him know and he will have gone and dealt with her properly.
A quick check of the fence and water supply and then back into the car again. This time off to Rackham where the meeting-up-on-a-Thursday-Home-Ed meet up was. We’d never actually been there before but I knew roughly where it was so we headed for Rackham assuming we’d find it eventually. We did a bit of a scenic drive round the local area with Tasha and cooing over all the same cute cottages with roses round the doors and acres of land and deciding if Ady and Ryan aren’t up for adventurous self sufficiency maybe we should marry each other instead 😆
We finally found the place we thought was right, released the children and sat and ate our lunch. Poor Vinnie developed a rash around his mouth and was suddenly sick after eating. He then brightened up so we assumed heat and long period in the car and then other HE folk arrived. Sadly the rash continued to spread and Vinnie got increasingly puffier of face and less happy :(. We decided piriton was the order of the day and no one had any so we had to call Davies, Scarlett and Toby back and head off. It was a real shame, particularly as Archie and Eliot arrived with some other friends just as we were pulling out of the carpark 🙁
We got back to Tasha’s, via a quick drug stop at the chemist and Vinnie cheered up and seemed much better. Davies, Scarlett and Toby had an hour or so playing while Tasha and I carried on chatting before we headed off. We stopped in Lancing on the way home at a local charity shop which sells buttons and ribbons and stuff at cheap prices, a quick peek in the library for some audio books for Tarly and then home.
Davies and Scarlett had a bath as they were both filthy, I dealt with some laundry, washed up and cleared up the kitchen and got some tea on for the kids. They came out of the bath and I brushed Tarly’s hair and repaired the rainbow braid in her hair which had grown out by about six inches by putting two more colours of braid at the top. Ady arrived home in time to serve up their tea and they watched the latest Harry Potter dvd that I’d brought home from work yesterday.
They went to bed, Ady and I watched Outnumbered and tomorrow is work for me all day long.