Better than Grandma*

Everyone slept well. There was no barking from Smallest in the night and although he still has a cough he seems very well. One side effect from his steroid pills yesterday is his bottom smells rancid and his eyes are really red and puffy and very tired looking. We sent him to bed early again.

We had decided we were not going to go out but have a restful day, but being us that didn't materialise. The boys had showers, we had breakfast and then while they played on the IPad I sewed bunting for Small's bedroom and Huffle watched the football.

After we got ourselves dressed, we went out to our nearest forest. We call this one the Quarry as there is a huge pit at the beginning and we walk all the way round before going into the forest. Huffle says the pit was made by a Meteorite, I think it was a gravel pit!

This is a good one when it is snowing. I have walked here a few times in different weather and Small had done walks here with cubs but we don't really know the route very well. Suffice to say, we got lost. We didn't take any provisions with us except a bag to carry the picked up fir cones! Silly us. We wandered off the short trail and ended up walking for miles. Poor little Smallest was terribly tired and thirsty and Small just ran out of steam and was hungry.

The boys foraging for fir cones. There were many different mushrooms here and Huffle wished he knew which ones you could eat so he could take them home and eat them.

Thanks to Huffle's compass reading skills he got us back to the car park without too much trouble. The walk was lovely, the trees were amazing and the wildlife abundant (we saw many fast moving caterpillars, a small snake, lots of butterflies and many birds).

We were all very hungry and went off to The Country Market for dinner. Not the most amazing place but it was close and quick. Huffle and I had Jacket Potatoes which are a very rare thing to find here and the boys had pasta. We checked out the 'Candy Store' where we found English Chocolate Teacakes (we are convinced they are English because the chocolate was so good). Next we walked around the market and found a Christmas present for Huffle and Smallest bought some go-go's. We have never been here this time of year and they had quite a lot of stalls, a bit like a car boot with lots of 'tat' but the main difference to Winter was that they had a singer. Ummmmmmm, interesting. I heard him sing 'hallelujah' in some kind of South American language. It was a bit 'pub singer' like. *The boys said that Grandma sang better - well if anyone has heard Grandma sing they know what we are saying!

We left there and picked up some ice-cream for Small's party and for our ice-cream cones back home and once home sat on the porch eating them. Nice. It was a really warm day today.

The boys and I cleared the leaves from the drive and deposited them down the bottom of the garden and Huffle painted the woodwork by the pool. The boys tidied their rooms and then played on the IPad and I watched Downton Abbey. Ahhhhh it's like a good friend is visiting - just lovely.

We had our tea in front of Iron Man3, just to finish the film off. It was very good.

 

 

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