The twitchers continue to come, another five charter boats this weekend and meanwhile the MoDo just does it’s thing. Most amusing.
I went off to work yesterday morning and Scarlett joined me. She loves Jinty’s shop anyway and was a little star making tea, coffee (for me and her and one for Abby) and working the till. I was amazed anew (as I always am with our autonomous, no structure approach) that she just knows about numbers for money. I thought gathering change out of the till drawer might pose a problem but no, that was all very straightforward too, she is quicker than many adults I have seen working a till and finding £1.88 with all the right coins!
Davies went with Ady to do bonfire building and then came back with Jinty after the boat – much excitement as he had spotted a spider on our amazon box which appears to be a false widow. He showed it to someone else, they caught it in a jar and it is now doing the rounds on facebook – Rum home to many odd migrants and quite a few odd residents too! Both kids headed off together before the end of my shift when Ady appeared having finished the bonfire. We got our post, found the kids and headed for home.
There was uncertainty regarding whether fireworks would happen as the weather was not great but in the end we got a ‘Go!’ email so I made some flasks of hot chocolate and mulled wine (not together!) and we went down. It was a decent turn out and the fireworks went on for ages. I think my personal preference is for larger shorter displays, my oohs and ahhs get jaded after an hour! 😉 We had venison burgers cooked on the barbecue, various soups and the bonfire was fab. It did rain but sparklers and mulled wine always make everything better.
We got home at about 930pm, mostly dry and watched some Will and Grace before the kids went to bed and we were not far behind.
Today was a slow morning and then we went down to put a wash on and visit the Sunday teashop – the kids collected a dead rat from Ross to take to Sean the Rat (he is doing post mortems on them to learn more about their habits and has said when he has enough he will get Davies and Scarlett round to do some with him. Cue much excitement – opportunities eh?! 😉 We left the car in the village and walked home, Scarlett and I had showers and then I made popcorn and we watched a film while I got all the many tangles out of Scarlett’s hair – wet hair with flour in it from the Halloween games meant this was an epic job! Ady cooked dinner.