I slept in this morning which I felt way better for having done and when I did get up I was ready to face the day properly :).
I let the chickens out, did the kids a second breakfast (they’d been scoffing various things already), tidied the kitchen up, sorted some laundry and then sat down with a cup of tea to discuss ideas of what to do with the day.
Ady has a geocache thingy on his phone which has GPS and can tell you the nearest caches to where you are and direct you to them. It had said there was one at Brooklands and Ady had offered to leave his phone here. So I suggested geocaching, some time at the allotment, PYO which opened last week, some baking, staying home, seeing if I could arrange to see friends, going to town to get Tarly a new rucksack. Davies wanted geocache and Scarlett wanted PYO so we planned to do the geocache first, come home for lunch and then go to PYO in the afternoon.
Except Ady had forgotten to leave his phone here and taken it to work 🙁
So instead the kids had some time out in the garden with the chickens including building a fake chicken out of sticks and feathers, while I processed some laundry. We were so close to midday by then that they had some food for lunch and then we headed off to PYO.
It’s still really early in the season so there wasn’t much to pick yet but all we really wanted was strawberries anyway so we had a happy hour sitting in the field picking (and eating!) those and got a huge punnet full. We walked round and looked for peas but only picked a handful, there were broad beans ready but we have those growing and ready at the allotment and didn’t want spinach or cabbage or rhubarb.
We drove into Worthing town and parked up for an hour and looked for a rucksack for Scarlett. I picked up a couple of tshirts for me in a cheap shop as I seem to be lacking cool, comfy tshirts to wear with jeans and the kids found some rip off lightsabres each for £2 so I got them one of those each which they were delighted with. We found a rucksack in the cheapo sports shop which claimed to have 70% off. It’s a pink Puma one so Scarlett likes the puma on the front :). It does look more likely to stand up to actually being used than her previous one though :).
Back home I did my baking – I noticed the lavender was in flower so I made some lavender shortbread and at Scarlett’s request some snickerdoodles with lavender in which we re-named lavendoodles and are very nice indeed :). I also made pastry for quiche for dinner which has cleared some of the 25 eggs we’ve collected over the last few days now all the hens are laying again :).
Davies and Scarlett played in the garden for nearly 3 hours, really nicely, together. I peeked at them every so often and it was just really nice to see them so happy together :). Ady came home and I left him to bath and feed Davies and Scarlett while I cycled up to the allotment to water it. I got a kick out of ruthlessly chopping down the spinach which I’d never wanted to plant in the first place and was blocking the sunshine from my precious sweetcorn. Really enjoyed that :).
Back home I read the last four chapters of George. Not sure what we’ve got lined up next. I finshed putting the quiches together and cooked dinner. Ady went and voted first and then I went when he got back as the kids were already in their pjs when we remembered. I chatted to the neighbours on the way and was most amused by the choice of 15 candidates for the european elections :).
Today Ady learnt about the speed of raindrops falling, Scarlett learnt about carbohydrates as a result of a conversation with me at PYO about wheat and what we use it for. This was well timed after me spending time on my healthy eating course yesterday so she now knows about us getting energy from carbs and how they should form a big chunk of our diet, Davies learnt about water on Mars from George and asking me about it afterwards and I learnt about the Goldilocks Zone, also from George. I also learnt that all 3 of us can now tell a few root vegetables by their leaves after we all correctly identified onions and carrots and beetroot which I don’t think any of us could do this time last year :).
I’ve been battling, and losing, with flickr so I’m going to give up and go to bed. Some of us have got work in the morning ;). It’s been a nice day, reminds us of just why we do this :).