A quick post because it is late o’clock AND I have a real bed to sleep in tonight so I really should be making the most of it not hanging out on the internet!
We left Evergreen this morning, with the usual round of well wishes, offers to come back any time, huge thanks for all our help and genuine good luck for the future. Pete said to stay in touch and if he could ever help us out or we wanted any advice to contact him. Emma had already left for market but I sent her a text to say thanks for everything.
We were away just after 9am and it was the smoothest 100 miles we’ve ever done, in about 2.5 hours we were pulling into Glastonbury :). We decided that as we will be fo-going our days off this weekend (we are here for 10 days, at most we will get 2 days off, probably only 1, another of those not really a WWOOF host things but worth it for the rest of the deal) we would have a couple of hours to ourselves before heading to Jill’s. The kids voted for KFC for lunch so we went in there but they both left most of their food, Ady and I enjoyed it though. Then we went for a wander round the charity shops of Glastonbury and for once it was quite bargaintastic with Davies getting a cool T shirt and a pair of jeans for £1 each, Ady getting a pair of Levis for a £1 (he has lost a trouser size so was needing some more jeans), and nice fleeces each for Ady and I. Oh and five books for a £1 too, so that was bargaintastic 🙂
We then arrived at Jill’s to hugs and kisses all round from Jill and Shirley, were shown round at all that has been done since we left a month ago, given some jobs to do over the next week and then sent off with £100 to get food shopping “and make sure you buy Baileys!” 🙂
We’re staying in Tor View this weekend, a small cottage with just the one bedroom so the kids are on a sofa bed in the lounge but they are happy, we do have a bath though :). Shopping away and some stuff brought in from the van I stuck a wash on and then the kids and I had half an hour in the swimming pool before we all went over to Jill & Jon’s for a barbecue. There was a terrific thunderstorm so we actually ate inside and caught up on all each others news over burgers and cider while Davies and Scarlett caught up on some Maggie-worship (their dog).
Back at the cottage we had baths and hot chocolate with aforementioned Baileys and now it’s bedtime. Tomorrow morning we are helping serve breakfast to the 12 Italian guests they have staying here. It’s a varied life 😉