Think I might have been watching too much Dr Who…

So there I was, chopping onions and avocados for dinner while the chicken cooked noisily on the hob. In the background I could hear Ady running the hoover round when I suddenly became aware of another noise in the room with me. It started quietly at first, a sort of slow trickle of water sound – I was only half aware of it and glanced at the sink to check the tap was not still running. It stepped up a gear as the chicken was turned off and became more of a gush of water – a torrent if you will. I nipped to the bathroom to check that the bath was not running – no, not that either.

I carried on chopping but a feeling of unease had come across me. I knew I was not alone in the kitchen, I could feel the presence of something else moving, shifting, churning, alive almost. The noise changed again, it was more of a whirring sound, the was movement and tumbling and echoing to it now.

I started to question whether it was good or evil? Was I about to become some sort of chosen one – the first human to have this thing revealed to it. Had all my life so far been leading up to this moment? Why me? What paths had I chosen in life to lead me to this place? Or was I overinflating my own importance? Was I merely an insignificant body which would be destroyed and cast aside? Was my role here of no more importance than the Sharon Stone part in Total Recall? I began to ponder on the appearance of this intruder – would it come disguised as a human? Would it have the looks of someone I knew to throw me off the scent – was Ady even as I thought being sucked out of his body and replaced with this life force to come innocently back into the kitchen, eat dinner with me, continue the weekend as normal before leaving for work on Monday to start some sort of intergalatic star war? Or would it take the form of an earthly creature like a cat but with an obvious difference like a necklace containing a marble within which the whole universe was contained? Even as I consided what incarnation this thing would come to me as I realised it would already be reading my thoughts and know what I was thinking – like some sort of other wordly Derren Browne, perhaps it was already controlling them.

I knew then there was no need to speak out loud, if it was reading my mind I could shout from within without ever needing to use my voice – ‘what are you? who are you? reveal yourself?’ I shouted inside. And then. It did.

From the corner of my eye I saw it. It was pink, no blue, no yellow, no it was red, it was all colours and hues merged in to one great tumbling swirling vortex, spinning ever faster and faster. The pitch of the noise changed yet again…..

It was of course the washing machine, running a coloured wash 🙂

Elsewhere in my real life (and yes you probably are quite right to be worrying about me:-) ) we’ve had a lovely day today. Pox watch on Tarly reveals nothing as yet, scar watch on Davies is still undecided. We had this plan to take our picnic (made yesterday!) somewhere and enjoy a nice day in the sunshine. The problem with the plan was we didn’t actually have a location in mind! Davies was set on the seaside, I was against such plans, Scarlett kept saying she was tired and Ady wanted to go to a herb garden he had driven past in the week in East Sussex. We got there and as it looked suspiciously not like an attraction designed to bring picnics, children or high expectations of a full days entertainment to I send Ady in to check it out. Sure enough it was a nice sedate garden centre style affair with herbs for sale and a walled herb garden to sit quietly in and enjoy the scented air.

We debated where to go next, drove around for a while and as one child was falling asleep and the other whinging I told Ady to turn the car round and drive us home. I relented enough to agree to stopping at either Drusillas or Paradise Park to eat our picnic when we saw a brown sign for this place. Never heard of it before but on a bit of a whim we pulled in and had a really good day there 🙂

Kids played on the playground, we bought bird food and walked round the ducks and swans, had ice cream, went on the train, looked at the old fashioned cars, spent ages in the woods looking at the bronze age houses made of sticks (which inspired a game about the three little pigs and had us running from the huffing puffing wolf) and generally had a great time. We managed to enjoy being all four of us and various splits of duos as we walked round so everyone got some time with each other which was also nice. Davies impressed me by recognising bamboo and telling me which animals eat it, Tarly had me in hysterics by doing a stick version of her stone trick from the beach – picking up pretty much every stick in the woods, looking at it to see whether it was a ‘magic’ stick or not and discarding it as ‘too muddy’. Many photos below 🙂

Kids bathed and asleep having been thoroughly worn out, dinner about to be served. Night all 🙂