A dog is for life, not your bag!

LOVELY LILY

Today we braved the huge crowds in our local town for their annual Strawberry Festival. Normally, this time of year it is so hot we struggle to find any shade, however this year it was quite cool. We all went out with fleeces on!

We parked nearby as all the streets through the town were closed and pedestrianised. Usually Moo is here and we wander slowly along checking each stall and occasionally stopping while Huffle and the boys race ahead stopping every now and then in order to let us catch up. I also don't often take money with me and have to find Huffle when I want to buy something. Today I took my own money, but they all stayed with me and were happy to peruse.

WHY DO PEOPLE WEAR THEIR DOGS?

We stopped at all the free things and got ourselves a few recyclable shopping bags, the boys won a couple of water bottles and a solar light, a couple of bead necklaces, and some fruit and they also managed to filch many sweets. One of the places was offering photos of the kids with dress up stuff but wanted to give us a free insurance quote for the privilege. I told the woman that Huffle worked in Insurance and dealt with all of our personal insurance so she attempted to talk to him, "I worked at ********* so you'll have trouble convincing me" at which point she gave up but still let the kids have their photos done (they actually turned out really bad because they cut off Small's head and the printer ink was running out).

Smallest gets to hold a lizard

SOMEONE IN OUR HOUSE WANTS ONE OF THESE

Standing on the side of the stream, we were able to watch the ducky race.

DUCKY RACE

Strawberries were bought (well it was a Strawberry Festival), ice creams were tried and we bought ourselves a lovely garden ornament. We searched the food trucks looking for some lunch and ended up driving to the burger place we like. It started to rain lightly so we came home.

We entered a competition for free ice creams with this photo

CAMPER VAN!

The boys played on the trampoline for a while and then played on their tablets while Huffle and I read the rules of the new Catan game. Small then played it with us. Good game with lots of different ways of playing it once we figure it out completely.

We finished watching Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and then watched the Women's World Cup while our big flag hung on the front door.

Obviously we watched on Canadian TV so it was biased commentary and the ref was very biased against us but we let the kids stay up till the end. When we won, we opened the window and shouted and then I put the English Bunting up and Huffle put the porch lights on (Mr Scrooge never does that normally) and posted to Facebook the fact we were taunting the Canadians. I was hoping TheRoyals and D from across the road would join us in a celebratory dance in the middle of the road but as it was still raining heavily - we left them in peace.

Can you see Huffle peering through the door window?

Funny, we would never have watched that game if we weren't in Canada.

 

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