Up early (for me) this morning to be organised. Oven on, bread rolls shaped from dough made last night straight in. Pastry made, mince pies in the oven in rotation, veg peeled, chopped and bagged up for soup making down at the hall, cake decorated and everything loaded up ready to take to the car. Kids advent calendared up and then left to walk down with Bonnie.
As usual everything takes longer than planned so I was frantically getting soup on and laying stuff out when Fliss arrived for Christmas Fayre so I didn’t do as much helping as I’d planned in setting that up with her, then Davies and Scarlett arrived so they set their stuff up and I carried on getting the teashop sorted.
Ady was a superstar in the kitchen cooking up chips, making hot drinks and doing the back of house stuff while I mostly chatted and served at the front. Sean, Ali and Eve came, as did Fliss and her girls, Mel, Dave and Naomi, the volunteer who is still here on Rum and Lesley & Bad Neil. We took just over £60 so made over £40 for the hall roof fund. I sold some chocolates and the kids both sold some candles and cards. We did free refills of mulled wine so Lesley and I had three mugs each and it felt a weeny bit like Christmas camp with lots of kitchen activity, mulled wine and Christmas songs playing.
Everyone left and it was just us, Dave and Naomi. We’d been invited to their kabin for dinner so Ady nipped home to the croft to feed the animals and he thought he was meeting us at the kabins while we thought he was meeting us at the hall. Then Scarlett and Davies confided that they had got locked out of the static and had to climb back in through the window but forgotten to tell us there was a problem with the door. I had visions of Ady here in the dark with no torch trying to find tools by the light of his phone and break in to the static, door running wild, pigs on the loose – Ady would have not had a straightforward trauma! So I decided I should come and check out what was happening incase he needed help. I arranged to meet Dave and Naomi back at the kabin and the kids and I walked home by the light of my mobile phone only to find no one at the croft and the door perfectly fine. So we gathered torches and another layer of clothes and headed back down knowing either Ady was properly lost somewhere or we’d crossed with him in which case he would probably come in the car for us when Naomi, Ben and Eilidh got back to the kabin. Sure enough at the bridge along came our car!
Back to the kabin for sausage sandwiches and some chats around the fire before the day caught up with all of us and we decided it was time to head back home for bed. The kids had half an hour playing as they find Ben and Eilidh rather hard work so wanted to just relax in their own company a bit before bed time. It’s another busy week ahead.
Not wanting to piss on your 4-pint milk carton in the wind tale, but we once had a full size gas BBQ and its bottle blow off our deck. It was a high wind zone in Hawkes Bay, which means October comes with dementing winds – we were lucky it didn’t blow through a window or something. Are your knickers now blown all over the croft?
Comment by Heather — 02 December 2013 @ 8:13 am
we toasted you again this year at xmas camp x x x
Comment by hharicot — 06 December 2013 @ 11:35 pm