Monday – rained and rained and rained and rained. Oh and was quite windy too. Sigh. It’s JULY! I expect, anticipate and accept this in November but July is supposed to be the trade off period, the time to be cursing midges… I’ve said before and will say again if this had been our first year here I think we would have left. There was not even really a spring to speak of, let alone a summer.
We had no bread so I took Manon, our WWOOFer down to the site of the old polytunnel and got her digging up strawberries to move across and came back to the caravan to make some wraps for lunch, some bread dough for later and then as it carried on raining I decided to do some cooking for teashop on Wednesday. Ady was doing compost loo maintenance, infact he did stuff on both the static loo and the horse box compost loo. Reason 2167 for loving Ady 🙂
I made two batches of cookies – peanut butter & choc chip, and ginger, plus wraps. I was short tempered with Scarlett for no real reason which came to a head later in the day after I made her cry, realised I was being a complete cow and apologised. What is that about? Isn’t it supposed to be her getting all arsey with me not the other way round?!! The kids were doing bedroom tidying although Davies came to my rescue and helped me with the wraps for lunch when I was struggling. Manon came in for lunch, we all ate together and then she carried on transplanting the strawberries into their new home. It started raining even heavier so when she came in to say she had finished that after just an hour or so I got her to come in for  a cup of tea and chatted to her for awhile.
At 5pm it was raining harder than ever so I decided not to go down to the village for the cinema night and to stay home instead. Ady and the kids went while I got dinner on, finished baking (I made some cupcakes and baked the loaf), read some of a book, did all the washing up, did some stuff online and just hung out with Bonnie. It was really nice 🙂
The others came home around 730pm with post and veg box and we had dinner and watched a couple of episodes of Eureka.
Tuesday = castle shift for Ady and I first thing. I’d already told Manon to get on with weeding and then to meet us at the castle as we had misunderstood the timings for the helping Mel & Em and thought it was starting earlier. So we took Manon back with us to the croft for lunch and then she did some more weeding. I made my flatbreads for teashop tomorrow and then Ady and I went back down to the village to the castle. Mel & Em were wanting a team of folk to help them move all their boxes and furniture downstairs into the Great Hall of the castle ready for the van to collect from the front door tomorrow. I think there were 8 of us there altogether and we did it in under an hour. First in relays moving stuff and then as a human chain all the way down the corridor and down the stairs passing boxes. It was heavy, hot and tiring! We did it all and then retired back to the flat for fizz and some food. Ady and I didn’t eat much ( I literally had a piece of bread and fancy balsamic, Ady ate rather more!) as we were coming home for dinner. We stayed a while to chat before coming home to cook dinner which we did together with me getting it all started and Ady finishing it off. An episode of Eureka and then bed all round as everyone was tired.