We spent most of today down at Fliss and Sandy’s painting. It felt a bit like WWOOFing again :). The kids came with us and had a great morning watching films with Joss and playing with some Muppet toys that Fliss dug out. On the way down there in the car Davies was asking about trigger words based on a scene from the movie so we got into a whole conversation about therapy, counselling, 12 step programs and types of management for issues such as depression, anger, drink or drug addiction. I miss these sorts of random tangent conversations, we don’t seem to have them so often as we used to.
I like it at Fliss & Sandy’s and it’s great to be doing something so useful for them; returning favours, deepening friendships :). The kids took Bonnie and Tinker out for a walk while Joss was having her nap, Fliss fed them all lunch, Ady and Fliss went to meet the boat (no diesel or water butt for us, grr, it means they will probably come on Wednesday and someone else will have to do us a favour and bung them in the car for us as we’ll be heading off on the first boat.
We left and came home to feed the animals before heading back down for a meeting with Neil and Lesley about venison processing. We’re all systems go there and looking forward to the training next week. I think it’s going to be really good.
We stayed for a drink and as Alasdair (who moved our static) was over we had a chat with him. It was a busy night down the shop but quite cold and we were keen to get home so collected our fruit and veg and headed back after about half an hour. It definitely feels time to be snuggling in and getting cosy at the static long before dark now. We have a busy couple of weeks with guests chich almost takes us to November and then I think we’ll go into semi hibernation and be catching up on reading stories, online stuff, crafting and just hanging out together again. We’re also looking forward to film nights, book group and communal cooking events planned for the winter though.
Back home for dinner – I rang my parents for a catch up although Mum is avidly reading the WW blog so has a good idea of what’s going on here. I’m looking forward to seeing them soon.
Everyone else in asleep and I’ve just ploughed through the first half of an online food hygiene training course but am getting cold now so am heading off to bed too.