This morning it was tipping with rain. Ady went to feed the animals and I made some bread (I had sold a Croft 3 ‘hamper’ of bread, eggs and jam to someone coming off the boat) and some cookies ready for Market Day / Teashop on Wednesday. The weather cheered up so Ady did some sorting out the pig pen – he’d put a load of cut grass in for them as bedding but the random weather we’ve been having had meant instead of drying out to make nice bedding it had started composting instead, so was stinky and very wet but giving off steam! He raked all that out and put (bought in) straw in instead. Good compost fodder to go down to the raised beds area though…
We had planned to do some work down on the bridge this afternoon but the weather was still looking pretty changeable so instead we went to the boat and then came back for a later lunch. The men collecting the hamper were delighted. Nothing came off the boat for us but we helped Jinty take some of her stuff along to the shop and had a quick look round for the cat. No sign, but other people are now looking out too so that’s good.
Back to the croft for lunch. The kids washed up and then headed down to play on their tablets in the hall for a bit. Ady and I spent some time in the fruit cage as yesterday he spotted lots of problems with the fruit tree leaves – caterpillar and aphid damage and some rust on some of the apple trees 🙁 We did some sorting out of that, sprayed them with washing up liquid and I picked all the currants and the very first Croft 3 raspberry :). We watered the polytunnel and then Ady headed off to meet the kids for Film Night. I was avoiding the village and the weather remained nice so I did half an hours weeding before coming back up and getting dinner started.
The others all watched the Minion Movie – mixed reviews with the kids saying it was ‘Good, well ok’ but Ady saying it was ‘excellent’. 🙂 We watched en episode of Friends (we’re re-watching it before selling on the discs) and then one of Doctor Who.