Tuesday and Wednesday

Tuesday: I think I spent most of the day in the shepherds hut, I did the second coat on the paintwork, painted the ceiling, hoovered and then mopped the floor and listened to the radio. In the late afternoon the laundry delivered new bedding so I got involved in helping make up beds in all the cottages, which took way longer than expected and it was gone 7pm before we finished. Ady was cooking the kids tea so I joined them in the pool for a while and then stayed in to do a few lengths by myself after they’d got out. I was wiped out after that and ended up falling asleep on the sofa before staggering to bed, hence no blogpost last night 😳

Today: With all the paintwork dry I was able to bleach all the windows as there were loads of fly eggs in the window frames, I then cleaned the smudgey windows, made up the bed and found a rug and some cushions to dress the room as a photographer is coming along tomorrow to take pictures of everywhere.

I helped move some furniture around, put the rest of the loose covers back on sofas and chatted to Ady who was gardening and staining woodwork. The kids were cleaning the inside and out of a red phone box which is here and helping with some weeding. After lunch I did some staining paintwork and some hedge clipping and then lit the pizza oven ready for pizza night. I’ve done something to my neck / shoulder which I suspect is just from so much repetitive painting motion and was eased a bit by an impromptu massage from Shirley – she’s promised me a full massage on Friday again, so hopefully it eases off and is cured by that.

Pizza night was good fun, a large group of us with the family (their youngest is getting on really well with D&S so there is the older posse of the twins and Tom, then the younger trio which seems to be working well), Jill & Jonathan (who we have now met and is very nice), Johnathan’s parents, Shirely, us and a variety of neighbours. We came in at about 10pm having sat gazing at the stars and drinking local cider for a while. Ady used up the last of my Mothers Day baileys in hot chocolates which were delicious. I spent ages on the phone tonight first to my parents and then to Julie which was lovely, so nice to have a proper catch up :). We’re now staying here til Monday, we’re moving into a different (bigger) cottage tomorrow for the last few nights which is great as we’ll save loads of money on not needing a campsite or food for the weekend but does mean no days off which is a bit tough. What’s keeping me going is the new cottage has a bath! 🙂