Which doesn’t make sense really when I have unlimited power and internet but there you go. I found more interesting things to do online than blog!
Yesterday Ady and Stuart went off with the kids to the train station where a steam train is running back and forth this week. Stuart volunteers on the steam trains in Manchester and is a real enthusiast. He knows the drivers and owner of the train currently up here so they went along for a closer look. Apparenting if you are interested in that sort of thing it was really good 😉 🙂 Ady and the kids enjoyed it.
Lynda and I sat and chatted about Home Ed, travelling, life in general. She is always so supportive of our rather unconventional ways and says such nice things. She knew Davies at 2 so very well and is utterly of the opinion that the choices we have made for him have been the right ones and gives me so much praise for my parenting and lifestyle. I do love her 🙂 (and not only because she says all the right things!). Then we walked along to watch the train go by from the bridge just outside the cottage before walking a bit further along a footpath towards Fort William and then back to look at the castle. We got back to the cottage just after the others and had lunch.
After lunch Lynda and Stuart went out for a drive and walk and we wandered along to the local CoOp about a mile away, mostly to check out where it was because we’d been given directions there on Saturday and utterly failed to find it. We got various reduced to clear bargains, including stuff for a couple of dinners we could bung in the freezer at the cottage :).
Back at the house the kids spent some time playing in the garden. There is a field at the back of the house with horses, ducks and chickens in it and the chickens come when you call them to be fed so we’ve been giving them our kitchen scraps. Made us all very nostalgic for our own chickens again.
Dinner was a chicken casserole using up leftovers from Sunday and some dumplings and mashed potatoes, followed by the rest of the apple pie from the day before. All very delicious.
In the evening we had baths, luxuriated infront of the TV sprawled on sofas and chatted.
See boring, but very enjoyable 🙂
Today I slept in until 1030am – quite possibly the latest I’ve slept since we left home! It was blissful and I feel very refreshed by it :).
We had an earlyish lunch and then we set out to walk to Fort William, about 2 miles away. Lynda and Stuart drove off for another walk (they love Glen Nevis and have been walking around there every day, we prefer something a little more strenuous, Ady and I are very conscious of eating more this week and not wanting to get too sedentry) and said they’d ring us later if they stopped for tea and cake somewhere incase we were close enough to join them.
We had a wander round the charity shops in the town, bought a few essentials from the chemist and took a phone call from the garage to say Willow is all fixed and ready to collect. Ady arranged to get her tomorrow morning as we were tied up for the rest of today really and was told the breakdown cover will pay for the labour so we only need pay for the parts which was just £30. Hurrah! 🙂
Lynda rang to say they’d meet us at Morrisons so we walked there and they treated us to drinks and cakes in the cafe there which was very nice :). Then they headed back and we got a few bits before walking back. The sky was very dark and heavy, particularly over the mountains but despite looking very threatening it never actually rained on us.
It was my turn for dinner tonight and I was doing lasagne which meant a full on hour or so in the kitchen grating cheese, cooking mince and sauce, making white sauce and constructing an apple crumble. Ady left me to it with a glass of wine and then came and helped move stuff around the rather fierce oven and we chatted about plans to head back down south. All a bit vague still as we don’t know what the Eigg hosts will be like and precisely when we’ll leave but nice to have a sort of a plan at least. Hoping to take people up on their offers of hospitality too :).
Dinner was served and much enjoyed by all, I had a lovely long bath and then watched some very strange TV programme about women becomming nuns before retiring to bed leaving everyone else watching something else on TV about the war. Davies and Scarlett have been buggers to get to sleep each night sharing a room without us directly underneath them shushing them!
. . . Made us all very nostalgic for our own chickens again.
Dinner was a chicken casserole . . .
Brutal!
What was wrong with Willow?
Comment by Michelle — 26 October 2011 @ 10:25 pm
PMSL 😆
Coil had gone, not really sure what that does but it now has a new one which means it does it again!
Comment by Nic — 27 October 2011 @ 12:04 am