The Weekend…

Don’t think I have the energy to do a blow by blow account of the weekend really – we arrived home having taken at least an hour longer than expected due to some traffic jam (which we never found the source of) meaning we did the first 40 miles in 2 hours 🙁 Tarly had fallen asleep but then woke up and has literally just gone back to sleep (it’s gone midnight!) so a planned evening of wine, some sort of meat product and I’m A Celebrity.. was somewhat scuppered!

But we had a lovely weekend anyway 🙂

Chris and Helen have a beautiful house, meat free zone aside we enjoyed lovely food (mulled wine and chestnuts last night being a particular favourite part of the weekend), the children all bundled straight in and had a whale of a time. Tarly was slightly off colour for a bit yesterday and faded fast again late afternoon today before we left but Davies and Elinor thoroughly enjoyed each other’s company and played pretty much solidly without any real adult intervention required. I was actually very proud of both my two this weekend, particularly Davies as he was a perfect little houseguest. He did his pleases and thankyous, he thanked our hosts for having us, he was very gentlemanly with Elinor and dealt with compromises and negotiation on a very high scale. Elinor was charming as ever and a perfect little hostess too.

Lovely also to see Merry and 3/4 of her girls – it would appear that a Tarly / Ammi corner of the Tarly / Ammi / Lulah triangle started to form which bodes well for Okehampton 🙂 Nice to see Merry when she’s not at a camp too without the backdrop of canvas!

It was lovely to be part of Alys’ first birthday celebrations too – thanks for that Chris and Helen.

There are some photos on flickr – Ady got all arty in the frosty light, bright winter sunshine and the beauty of the house so finally decided to use his own flickr account and uploaded some there too (after I’d stuck most of them on my own flickr, but never mind!) He’ll be using his photoblog soon at this rate!

Had lots of long educational chats too – which was nice and made me feel like I was facilitating something I’d thought through and could justify although I think we all know I am far more muddling along and making it up as I go than that really. Nice to clarify some of my own thoughts though. Also told Helen some of my alternative life ponderings too, which was good to air, so thanks for that Helen.

And I think that’s probably as far as this post is going really – I need to go to bed!

Tomorrow is a quiet day at home, PC world are coming to investigate my laptop which hopefully will not mean I am without it but there is that risk. Other than that its a fairly quiet start to the week with yet more wild partying (well a bit of visiting anyway!) planned for next weekend! Just as well we have the week to recover eh!