This morning we finished off at Paddington Farm. We’d said we’d help clear out the feed shed as they have a visit next week from animal welfare to check on the livestock and facilities, so after letting out and feeding various animals we gathered up all the feed buckets around the farm and Tarly and I scrubbed them all out with hot soapy water while Ady and Davies started sweeping out the barn. We found a Henry and put Scarlett in the big trunk that houses the feed to hoover it all out 🙂
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Further scrubbing, sweeping and cleaning and then we went to find the keys for the tool shed to swap over the battery powering the electric fence around the pigs. While Ady put some new straw in there for them I found Michael and got the key and we did that. Then Tanya appeared so we said our goodbyes. We swapped mobile numbers and have been invited back for Easter and at any other time we are in the area which is nice :). Davies asked if he could have one more drive on the tractor as Ady had not seen him doing it the other day so I drove it into the field for him and he had another go, perfecting his biting point with the clutch and his general steering 🙂
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I’d already popped over to Jill’s this morning to say yes please to her offer and arranged to come over this evening to move in and to feed ourselves tonight. Davies is down to just wellies as his shoes (which were on the small side now anyway) fell apart so we went on a fruitless shoe hunt this afternoon, trying a Clarkes Shopping Village nearby which we had a feeling might be a designer / high street factory outlet place and was just that, offering nothing in the way of suitable footwear so we drove on to Wells which is nearby and were disappointed there too. We gave up and came to Jill’s via Morrisons for dinner supplies tonight – all choosing food we haven’t been easily able to cook in the van in celebration of a kitchen :).
Jill settled us in including reappearing with a couple of dvds for the kids to watch and saying rather than filling up the fridge with stuff we might not like would giving us £100 for food for the week be okay/ Er yes! 🙂 We’re to report for work at 9am tomorrow but as yet have no real idea what we’ll actually be doing – she’s said there are various things she needs an extra couple of pairs of hands for and that she’ll just enjoy having us around but whatever she chucks at us will be worth it for the luxury of this cottage for the week :).
We’ve charged everything up, had showers, eaten dinner, watched a film & some TV and everyone else is already in bed asleep in beds! so I guess I should do the same really.
Sounds brilliant – love the pics of you guys on the tractors 🙂
Comment by Sarah — 29 March 2011 @ 5:45 pm
Love that photo of S, she looks all outdoorsy and glowing 🙂
Comment by em — 30 March 2011 @ 7:01 am