Saturday morning work for me, Scarlett came too and we had a busy morning – Tarly counted 14 customers which meant most of Rum came in I think! Ady and Davies watched Shaun of the Dead which Davies has been desperate to watch for about 2 years. Then Ady came down and met the boat (we had petrol coming off and a delivery of various meat from the butcher in Fort William – very impressed, think we’ll be using him again :))
We came back home for lunch and I finished reading Ratburger to Davies and Scarlett. We’ve been watching the Tudor Monastry Farm which is very interesting for all sorts of reasons – firstly that it is filmed at Weald and Downland Musuem where we spent lots of time over the years having annual membership for several years. I remember going on school trips there when I was a kid. It is also interesting in that although I have never had the faintest desire to do Kentwell as so many of our friends do I am still curious about that period. Finally a lot of what is being done in the programme is very pertinent and relevant to us in our current lifestyle – goose and pig keeping, working land, traditional low tech building using local materials.
We went round to Vikki’s for dinner in the evening which was really nice. She cooked pizza; Davies and Scarlett ate and played in her lounge while we ate and chatted in the kitchen. It was a good evening. We left around 11 and so I let the kids have a lie in on Sunday morning.
I enjoyed reading in bed for an hour or so which I like to do on Sunday mornings too 🙂 Davies and Scarlett wandered down to the village to catch up with Mike who they’ve not seen since he came home. I planted some garlic and tidied up in the polytunnel after a rat feast has happened with all my seeds 🙁 My own stupid fault for leaving them all in the polytunnel I know but grr – bastard rats! 🙁
Ady and I walked down to the village to collect some veg from the freezer, found Davies and Scarlett and we all walked up together for lunch. I then made two apple pies and cooked roast lamb and baked bread. Davies stayed up with Ady and I to watch Doctor Who on iplayer. I thought it was utterly over hyped and nothing special but I seem to be the only person in the UK who thinks that so I won’t say much on that count 🙂
Today Davies and Ady went to light a fire in Claire’s yurt and stick a wash on down at the castle while Scarlett and I made some Christmas candles for her to sell at the Christmas market this weekend. She had some great ideas and they came out really well. She spent ages this evening making price tags and labels for them too. Fingers crossed Davies’ Christmas cards arrive in time and they both do well on Sunday selling things 🙂
I also sorted some laundry that had been on the line and brought in some firewood and got the fire lit to start airing some damp clothes. The boys came back for lunch and then Ady and I went to meet the boat. I was hoping my fruit bushes might arrive and we were expecting diesel back but neither came.
Back at home I read a Morpurgo book to the kids (Wreck of Zanzibar) until it got too dark to read. Davies spent over an hour on the phone to Ben while Tarly made her labels and price tags for her candles and Ady cooked dinner. I did some Trust paperwork and then we all had dinner.
I’ve been trawling amazon for interesting books to read aloud, the books we all loved reading last winter were the My Side of the Mountain trilogy so I’ve been looking for something along those lines to get stuck in to. I miss library access!