We were supposed to having Ali and Freya over today. We had a plan to catch up, be silly and maybe even drink wine together. It was not to be 🙁
With my car still over at Caz and Bid’s that had to be top priority for today, particularly when I tried to start the van and it was having none of it – I clearly don’t have The Knack.
I sorted out breakdown cover online for the van, arranged a rain check with Ali, answered a question on ebay about whether I’d sent a bulk lot of Betty Spaghetty stuff to Greece (I was inclined to reply ‘No. Fuck off.’ but refrained and have a proper answer).
Davies’ second amazon parcel of lego arrived so that was the overriding part of the kids day, putting that together. I’m amazed that the fairly small amount of Lego that has come into the house in the last few days totals £100 😯
We all decided we were very hungry and in honour of British Egg Week we had pancakes made with 12 bantam eggs. And very delicious they were too 🙂
Ady rang to say he had gone to Caz and Bid’s and got the bonnet open and the car finally jump started. He drove home and then we took him back to collect his car, giving my car a really good run. On the way home we called in to see the mechanic mate of Chris and Julie’s who fixed the bonnet catch before. He sorted it (again) and I talked to him about servicing the van. He’s picking it up next Monday and coming with jump leads. It’s a bit sooner than we’d planned but he quoted me £120 which we can just about scrape together and I would rather have the van up and running and ready to go if I need another vehicle with my car being unreliable in the rain. I also asked him if he’d be interested in buying my car off me too. He’s going to think about an offer for that although I suspect it won’t be as much as I’d get selling it privately.
Back home the kids got back into Lego-ing, I did some knitting and then sorted out their dinner. We all had some form of leftovers from Sunday’s roast – the kids had more or less a complete roast dinner and Ady and I had some rice cooked with sausages leftover from breakfast and pork leftover from the roast.
I chopped some firewood, although I chopped with such might that I smashed up the large log we rest wood on to chop – it was slightly rotten! Ady was late home and had called in to see Chris on the way so we were already reading before bed by the time he got home, with a fire lit and a bath run. We started on – we have a mission to read all the Morpurgo books in the library before we leave :).