Today started rather early as Edward decided he was ready to get up quite sometime before 7am. The frustrating thing is that when he does wake up early he’s usually back sleeping within an hour and a half! Just too late for us to go back to bed! So he had his milk and we watched the Hoobs and a few other tiddlely peep type programmes. He does like Thomas the Tank engine and Noddy! Good old classics! And a little while later he was off to sleep!
During the week we decided that Jack and Elise (J & E) were old enough to go to the park on their own! So this week they have been practising going out and remembering to come back on time – so far I don’t think they has forgotten once! Of course they love it – their first real taste of freedom. The park is a couple of hundred yards down the road and is split in to two parts. One part is small football pitch where they play football and the other is a traditional park with swings and slides etc!
They have made some friends and really enjoy going out – they also visit the horses and ponies in the field next to our cottage. Elise is horse mad – really really horse mad! Lynn took them both to a stables near her house a couple of weeks ago for pony club which they really enjoyed but the kids who went were all much younger than J & E. So we’re not sure if they are going to go again! Anyway it may not matter as they have been invited to help out around the livery yard over the back of us. They are thrilled. Not only do they get to groom and muck out horses all day but they will also to ride as well on occasions. The other kids there are nearly all the same ages as J & E. Jack plays football a lot with a boy called Ben and some other kids from the village but also enjoys working with the horses!
The only problem is that they come back stinking of horses! I had forgotten just how much you smell of horses when you’re working with them. Elise was really smelly when she came back for lunch, so much so that whilst she was standing in the garden telling Sarah and I about her morning adventures Cypher came over, cocked his leg and wee’d over her legs! Elise was shocked and we fell about laughing! With that lesson learnt we instructed Jack to change his trousers before he came in for lunch or he’d risk the same treatment!
So J & E are very happy – tomorrow they will be going swimming with Tony. More practice for the Pier to Pier race in July!
I popped out to get some dog food and a few bits from Tesco and came home with a rotary line dryer for the garden as well, it was 1/2 price in Homebase. And at about 50p a load to tumble dry it will pay for itself in saved electricity in no time at all! The only problem was getting the base stake in to the ground. Our back garden is laid out to gravel and seemingly the gravel is on solid rock! Eventually I got the thing into the ground only to find that it was really on the wonk when I put the airer on! The daft thing is that after spending so long getting the thing in to ground in the first place when I pulled up the airer to put it away the base stake came straight out of the ground! So tomorrow we will pop to Wickes and get some cement!
This evening saw the welcome return of Doctor Who, this was followed by home made quiche and bed!