I slept in a bit this morning, felt much needed after a whole week of broken nights sleep thanks to my shoulder / neck. We have swapped our bedding over too which is working well. We usually have a duvet in the summer and a sleeping bag in winter as the duvet goes mouldy in there because of the condensation and is just not warm enough. This year though we both felt constricted by the sleeping bag and not warm enough. Ady got a new duvet when clearing out the White House so we are using that with the sleeping bag opened up on top to make it like a super duvet and it is working well. We have also ordered an electric blanket to put on while the genny is on each evening thinking that may help in there too.
We listened to Popmaster and then Ady and I went down to the village to get stuff out for dinner, put the car battery on charge and check for post. One of the facebook off grid groups I am on had been sharing posts about favourite books last week and I’d been recommended a couple I’d not seen before so found them second hand and they had arrived. I collected my stuff from Fliss’ craft shop so I can stock take ready for next season in the Shed. There was a power cut though so not able to put the car battery on charge. Ady set it up to come back down and turn on later and we walked home.
We had lunch and watched The Hunt. We had planned to go and chop up some wood but the weather remained very wet and quite windy so in the end Ady went out on his own to do it while I stayed in with the kids. Scarlett had a shower, Davies made a start on some Christmas cards – we’re not sending many but I wanted him to draw the ones we are sending personally for each recipient. Â Ady chopped wood, fed animals and dashed down to the village to put the battery on charge. He said it was scarily windy down there near trees. Almost makes you glad to live in an exposed caravan! 😉
I rang my parents this evening, Mum was out. It turns out her upset on Sunday night is mostly down to her not being in Granny’s will according to Dad. Hmm. Dad said to me ‘It’s funny, I’d say you and your brother are not at all interested in or motivate by money but me and your mother are…’ as though this had just occurred to him. No kidding! I said I’d ring again tomorrow but feel better about all that now, her crying down the phone on Sunday really upset me. I also had another email from Frazer which sounds more balanced too. It’s hard not to be there.
We gave up on tonights Christmas film, it was called The Town That Cancelled Christmas and was just shite. We watched a couple of Vicar of Dibley Christmas specials instead which had all four of us laughing out loud several times. Proper festive fun!