This morning was spent in the van, some card playing, some reading, some drawing and lots of chatting and drinking tea. Oh and listening to the radio. Ady won Popmaster this week 3 to my 2.
After lunch I decided we all needed to get out, rain or no rain (it’s not stopped for about 48 hours) so we put coats and wellies on and headed off for a walk. We walked in the direction of where we thought the breakdown garage was but missed the turning on the outward walk and followed a sign for a walk trail instead down to the loch. Through the woods which were all autumnal and lovelyand down past the misty loch.
We suddenly noticed some decorations dangling in the trees in the wood and a sign next to a tree with loads of brollies dangling and a welcome sign saying we could borrow an umbrella as long as we returned it, signed the Fairy Folk. Then followed a rather surreal half an hour or so wandering from tree to tree over a fairly large area through a succession of decorated glens, gardens, trees and scenes. There were all sorts, bells and windchimes, pond life scenes around huge puddles with dragonflies and frogs on lily pads. Gnomes and dragons and goblins, glitter and mirrors and jewels, charms and twinkly things, cuddly toys, fairy statues, various animals, toadstools, flowers, rainbows. There were trees adorned with welly boots and odd socks, piles of pinecones and woven branches creating arches and shapes and pathways. It truly had a feel of magic and naturally Davies and Scarlett loved it and were totally captivated and charmed by it. I also found it utterly enchanting and wandered about like a 7 year old gazing from one little area to the next, ringing the windchimes and smiling at it all.
Ady, who is less easily impressed thought it was slightly spooky and half expected an evil person to leap out having entranced innocent children into wandering off the pathway :lol:.
I signed the visitors book and Scarlett donated a pound she happened to have in her coat pocket into one of the various places where donations are collected. From a bit of googling the project is in aid of local disabled people and was done by one woman. From reading the visitors book (it said it was number 11!) there are many regular visitors who also contribute to the display now, particularly things like the outgrown welly tree.
I loved the whole thing 🙂
From there we crossed a bridge over a fast running river leading down to the loch and then back up onto the road where we did find the garage and checked with the man there about arrangements for tomorrow – we’re to ring him once we are ready for a lift and he’ll take us to the holiday cottage and look at Willow on Monday.
We decided as we were already wet to carry on down to the loch and look at the canal and locks so walked down there too. I rang Jill to confirm the Glastonbury part of our forward planning is all still ok and had a bit of a catch up chat with her.
Back at Willow we rang o2 customer services as Ady’s phone was playing up and a very lengthy two phonecalls later we finally resolved that by changing some settings.
After dinner instead of bedtime story the kids requested we start reading the WW blog from the beginning to relive some of of the early days of our adventure following a conversation about ‘this time last year….’ and speculation about ‘this time next year…’
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Comment by Michelle — 21 October 2011 @ 11:27 pm