Not a bad nights sleep last night but definitely a nice lie long lie in. We had nothing to do today so we spent the morning doing our own thing. Huffle watched the football (though not through the satellite as he usually would because it broke). The boys played on IPads and I knitted and watched an Interior Design programme. Leicester City lost today and so did Stoke - BOOOO!
Huffle spent over 45 mins on the phone to Bell trying to sort the satellite problem out. They said they would send someone but it would cost us to come out. Huffle told him He wanted to speak to a manager and we would cancel and they said they would let him off 'just this one time'. Late morning, the boys and I went into the garden and collected red dog wood sticks and pine from the wood at the back of our garden and I made up the Winter Urns. Smallest gave in first and Small and I got creative. The urns were frozen so we had to use many jugs of hot water. Hopefully they will freeze before any big winds come along and ruin them. I even went to The Royals and cut some of their BitterSweet berries which add a bit of colour.
Bell (our satellite/internet provider) came around midday. We decided he was Constantine the Kermit impersonator from Muppets Most Wanted. (He spoke like him and the boys heard me calling him a muppet!). He decided that the connection to the dish was broken (Summer last year the same thing happened when a 'creature' chewed through the wire and they dug up our lawn and left it a mess to put new cables in). The muppet wanted to do the same thing but we said NO! Surely they don't want to keep doing the same thing so he said he would move the dish and wanted to put it on the side of the house in between Smallest's bedroom window and another window. That would be ugly and I wasn't happy but there seemed no alternative. Huffle was ready to cancel our contract with them but unfortunately there is no other real competitors. In the end, Constantine went up a ladder and came inside and we had 100% signal. He was talking really quickly and told Huffle he had to leave. He said he had to charge us an installation fee and when Huffle questioned this he said he would waive it. CROOKS! I went out to look where he had put it and noticed it was on the roof. I came in whispered to Huffle that he had put it on the roof. Constantine said "no it isn't on the roof". YES IT IS. "No not on the roof, on a blurblurblur bit". YES THE ROOF! Then he told us that Bell would guarantee for 25 years that it would not make the roof leak. Huffle made a note and took a photo of the work paper just in case. Constantine ran away. Crooky Muppet!
This afternoon we had a little visitor by the name of 'Monkey' - Suffolks youngest daughter (6). Her other two kids were doing a creative writing class and I said Monkey could come here and play and give Suffolk a couple of hours to herself. We had much fun, playing Operation, Uno, Pictureka and Mousetrap. She showed us how to make the Loom Bandz on a board and played the piano for Smallest.
When Suffolk came to pick her up, she brought us a big slice of cake. They all came in for a quick hot chocolate and went home. Small did some piano practice, Snallest showered and then we all had pizza in front of Harry Potter (Smallest and Huffle have finished the first book so we have to watch the whole series again, but only after they have ready them).
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