For goodness sake I'm a day behind again (if you include Saturday and Sunday as one blog). Must get organised again. Haha.
So, here we go...weekend!
Saturday we went apple picking at Gore Farm with Phil, Linda, Tony, Danielle, Mellissa and Ruby. Colin and Lily went off to horse riding and met up with us afterwards in the cafe. We rent a tree for £30 per year, which between 3 families isn't that much, and we get to pick all the apples off of that tree. If the crop is a little low (as it was this year) they have other trees from which we can make up the loss. The photo below is just our share of the apples picked.
Whilst we had a good old chin wag around the table at the cafe drinking tea and eating cake, the kids went off and saw the animals and did a bit of investigating. The girls also picked strawberries, but Callum stayed with us, not because he didn't want to pick strawberries, we just didn't have the money to buy any that he picked and I didn't want him just going off and eating them all.
He went off and fed the donkeys (his favourite animal) where one particularly noisy one didn't like it when he fed the others. Very vocal animal (the one below).
The afternoon he spent back on the computer, so I was glad we'd managed to get out and about.
Sunday was very lazy, partly because I'd been out the night before and just fancied doing nothing all day and partly because Phil was busy doing stuff in the kitchen. So Callum spent the day occupying himself (may I add, not all of it on the computer!).
So, today! Phil is off all week this week and that normally interferes with our home schooling, but I'm determined to get at least maths and literacy done. So at about 9.45am this morning I woke Callum up with a cuppa and while Phil was sorting out the dog and what he was going to do for the day, we sat in bed and did his worksheets.
Then up we got, Phil going into the bathroom to put radiator on the wall and redo pipework running to it, we started the BBC website's typing course....dancemat style. Callum was really nervous, but he did it and got very good with his 'home' keys. I think him learning to type properly will be a big benefit to him and he sees me touch typing all the time and sees how quick it can be. Talking of which, I did a speed test on Google and came out as 54 words per minute. Bit slower than I was when at work, but glad I'm still above 50. Need to practice more!
This afternoon was baking and cooking for me while Callum helped his dad refill the heating system and check the boiler was working ok. All good stuff.
So, am now up to date again. Yay!
Cya
We've had some trees at Gore Farm for the past couple of years, this year's crop is disappointing, especially from the Cox's trees, but we got a little more than we expected from the Crispins. We've been twice this year, once the weekend before last to pick our own, and the weekend just gone to pick with our daughter and son-in-law from their two trees and to pick the two trees that we bought as a present for our son-in-law's oldest brother (still keeping up? Good!). The grand-children enjoyed the experience, especially getting a ride in the barrow when we borrowed it to get the apples to the car. Mary and I went back home to get on with the dinner, and the rest stayed to have a look at the animals. We all met up back at our house for roast lamb with all the trimmings and the grand-children surprised us all by scoffing their own body-weight in meat!
ReplyDeleteLater in the afternoon I had a Gatwick trip and so I did a little detour to Ewell to deliver my son-in-law's brother's apples that we picked for them (because they'd been on holiday the previous weekend and only came back at 3.00 a.m. Sunday morning). A nice day, all in all, and we enjoyed it as much as you obviously did.