and in under 48 hours!
Yesterday it mostly rained and was windy. We had a couple of breaks in the weather during which Ady went up to check the water pipe in the now very fast running burn and I chopped some wood. We all went outside and gathered some strimmed reeds, rushes and grass to put in Barbara’s pen as she was now thigh deep in mud thanks to a small space, lots of rain and plenty of pregnant pacing.
Around all this we watched War Horse, ate popcorn, had a roast dinner, watched Nims Island, made bread dough, did some crochet, did some drawing and generally had what for us is a fairly restful day. It was quite nice not to see another living soul, no one even walked by on the nature trail. In Sompting we could go a whole day without talking to anyone else but we’d only to look out of the window for 30 seconds to see someone walking or driving by or a neighbour (remember our neighbours?!? 🙂 ) out in their gardens.
I also didn’t get out of bed til gone eleven having enjoyed returning to bed with a mug of tea to finish a book I was reading. I do love my lying in bed reading mornings when I get them every so often. They are often interupted by Tarly climbing into bed with me to chat which is also lovely.
Today I spent some time before Popmaster with Davies looking at a lettering book he got for Christmas with him. He has a range of postcards for sale in the craft shop and Jinty has offered to take some sale or return aswell. she also paid him in sweets and coke on Friday to make a poster advertising the bar on Saturday nights which was classic Davies and very funny with people getting drunk, snogging in the toilets, necking wine out of the bottle and more on it along with the actual writing Jinty had asked for. It’s on display in the hall now. I love how these little touches from my family shape Rum and the village 🙂
I then went down to the village as I had arranged to call into the IRCT office to get caught up on some being a director stuff. I was there for an hour or so and then walked out with Fliss. Ady had come down to meet me and we had enough time before the boat to call in to Fliss and Sandy’s for a cup of tea so did so. We had nothing off the boat but were sending jerry cans of diesel off so needed to go. Jinty had a huge delivery so we loaded some into our car and dropped it round to the shop for her before heading home for lunch.
After lunch I got chatting to Davies who was drawing in a graph paper exercise book (I nicked a whole selection of exercise books for the kids from school; lined, plain, half and half, graph, squares, handwriting etc. Scarlett said to me ‘can you get me a swimming book if the school has them please?’ Eventually we realised she thought that all the books were named after types of exercise and wanted to know what a swimming one might look like! 😆 :lol:) and trying to create a bar chart having had the idea explained to him the other day. I drew him one with hours of sunshine per day over the course of one week. We then drew a graph and plotted the same date on that and I then showed him how to do a pie chart which involved ratios, multiplication, addition and getting out a compass and protractor and teaching him how to use that and about degrees in a circle. Highly educational 🙂 Scarlett is much more mathematically minded than Davies, always has been, she just gets numeracy concepts so muck quicker but Davies really liked the idea of graphs and charts and was trying to think of other information he could put into graphs and charts 🙂
This afternoon Scarlett watered the polytunnel plants and spotted the first sprouts of seeds in the lettuce and salad leaves :). Davies spent time with Bonnie training and teaching some new tricks. Ady did some Barbara pig pen repairs, I tried and failed to clear a couple of the ditches that are blocked at the bottom of the croft and then cut and gathered some more reeds and rushes. Then I left them all to it and went to collect the veg box and had a couple of beers at the shop with Fliss. I walked all the way back up the hill with the veg box plus four cans of beer for Ady, a pack of butter and various other bits, stopping on the way up to put the ducks away and feed the pigs who had already been fed but had decided if the birds were getting some food they had better have some too. Oh and going back down to the river to refill Barbara’s water bucket which she had knocked over.
Back to school tomorrow. Boo.