This morning we’d agreed to help bring some firewood down from a high up point on the land so were hanging about waiting for instruction and sitting on a picnic bench. It actually needed moving so we all did that together and then decided to test it’s new citing for view-ability. It’s stunning here 🙂
The gorgeous blue skies had turned grey and we sat out a hail storm on the bench – very cold. Later discovered it had been snowing at the top of Snowdon, which is only a few miles away.
We had tea and biscuits indoors and the weather had cleared enough to tackle the wood gathering. We all went up riding on the trailer attached to the tractor which Sam had a go at driving and then helped load logs on the back as Alan chainsawed them up. Sam was being pathetic in his lifting – he’s really pissed me off today. Tolerance levels wearing dangerously thin with him on my (and Anna’s) part now. Just as well he leaves on Tuesday – I think I can cope with the last 48 hours, but another part of me is itching to say something…
Back down the hill we retired to the van for an hour or so as lunch was not ready and the generator was on to bake the bread and run the washing machines so we were charging everything up in the van. Lunch was called at about 3pm but the weather was so lovely again by then we just made a sandwich and took it back outside to the picnic bench again.
Davies wanted to go for a walk but often when we try to slip away one or more of the boys will want to come with us so we were trying to do it covertly which is pretty difficult when there are four of us ;). We ended up sitting in the sunshine with everyone else instead. Davies and Scarlett got their sketchbooks out and Davies did some drawing, we also played a game with a dice where you had to throw a different number for each component part of a drawing – we started with beetles, then butterflies, the cats and then ducks. That was quite fun :).
We lazed around and Anna brought out a cake she had made with Tom (the youngest lad) at tea time. By then it was pig feeding time so Ady and Scarlett helped with that while Davies and I hung out the laundry that had finished and then we did manage to slip away for our walk across the field the other side of their land where we’d not ventured before. That was a nice hour or so with plenty more view-gazing 🙂
We returned and Ady and I both helped Anna with some wood chopping for the woodburner tonight, then went in to the tea room while all the kids went to watch a film (George of the Jungle). I helped with some peeling and chopping and Anna cooked while we all listened to some of Alan’s old tapes from the 80s. Sam really irritated me this evening and was then rude about Anna who disappeared at dinnertime and was obviously upset about something.
After dinner Scarlett and I had a brief walk to look at the moon, particularly bright and beautiful tonight 🙂 before retiring to Willow where Davies joined us for a couple of chapters of story while Ady helped clear up in the kitchen. Tomorrow’s plan is not very much at all and I am intending to sleep in and hoping the kids will too – it’s gone 9pm before we eat most nights, gone 10pm before we are in the van and gone 11pm before they are asleep – not dreadful or too dissimilar from when we were at home in terms of them actually being asleep but not a great routine really. It feels very much like biding time now as we should be leaving tomorrow to go to the next hosts.
Very worth hanging in there to get Willow sorted though xxx
Comment by Heather — 12 June 2011 @ 8:32 pm