Not the Marti Pellow variety.
Friday morning I was Mrs Post Office. I got about halfway down to the village and it utterly poured down with rain. It was torrential, I would probably not have gotten so wet so quickly if I’d been standing in the shower! I debated running, turning back, heading for the trees and in the end just laughed and walked in it. By the time I reached the shop I was sodden right through. It was warm in the shop though and I had just about dried out by midday when it was time to head back up the hill. About half way home the exact same thing happened and I got drenched again! At least this time I could get changed. I was still not feeling brilliant so other than make pizza dough and then pizzas for dinner I mostly sat on the sofa and crocheted.
Davies and Scarlett headed down to check for post and came back with a fair bit. Doctor Who and a pretty early night all round.
Saturday morning I was Mrs Post Office again, this time Ady had been at the castle for the morning tour (no takers) and came around to chat with me while I cashed up. Various people were in and out including a load of friends of Steve Dev Officer who was over with a huge group of friends, and had invited us down to the barbecue hut to eat with them that evening. Some of the friends were also mutual friends of other friends (it seems to be a very incestuous world all these sort of Dev Officer type posts with lots of people knowing other people I know) plus a family who we have been emailing with for nearly a year were over for a day trip. They are traveling in a converted mobile library doing WWOOFing and other volunteering and actually spent Christmas in Worthing. Â They had planned to spend some time volunteering with us but their schedule didn’t pan out that way and actually neither did our volunteering opportunities. It was great to meet them though and they may come back either soonish this year or perhaps next year.
Then back to the castle for the afternoon tour which was actually just some of Steve’s friends and the family so a nice tour. While waiting for people to come I had a tinkle on  the Steinway, wish I could play the piano properly, I can only remember about three songs using both hands. It would definitely be the skill I would most like to have. (And by have I mean just be able to do, not actually have to properly learn or practice!)  Then home. We’d got all the laundry done so that was all put away and then we headed back down to the barbecue via the shop to collect some beers. We had a really nice couple of hours down there chatting with various people. Davies and Scarlett left about an hour before Ady and I but we were all home by about 11pm.
Today Ady and I finished the pig move which Ady had done most of over the course of this week. The pigs are really happy now with all the fresh grass and stuff to eat. I did some more crocheting while Ady did various stuff outside and then Steve & Mel came up with a few of their friends and assorted kids to see the animals. We fed the pigs and all the birds and chatted, I guess they were all here for about an hour and a half. There were too many of them to invite in really, plus Davies and Scarlett were having showers so we said our goodbyes to them and then came in for hair brushing and dinner cooking.