Moving on

Watty1

that is a lovely area (and on my potential move to list as well)

Cherryfudge

Quite a full day: I gave DH a haircut first thing this morning, then we 'did' church online and I got very frustrated as the speaker, while enthusiastic, wasn't structured. I'm still not sure what the talk was about! However, things were otherwise good.

J had arranged a meeting with her cousin and family so we drove out to a country pub. All the Yorkshire family except D and E were there. I was quite pleased with myself for looking more 'put together' than usual but forgot we'd decided to take the hobby car, which is a convertible.  After a few minutes of glorious breeze, you could forget the 'put together' look! However, we had a really good afternoon with the cousin and family: there were thirteen of us including five children so we had a big Sunday lunch, including introducing the guests to Chicken Parmo, then decided to go into the pub garden for desserts. I was good and just got a cappuccino as I'm trying hard to reduce the saturates in my diet, and it was a good cappuccino which meant I didn't miss the ice cream and brownies too much.

The pub hospitality was excellent: there was a table of toys for little ones (N and F took turns riding the pink rocking unicorn) and outside there was a sandpit, swing and bouncy castle. Unfortunately N jumped off the edge of the area where the swing was, landing on soft sand which pitched her forward into the wooden sleepers around the sandpit. She has a huge bruise on her forehead now, though the nice member of staff obliged with an ice pack and paper towels and after a while N was able to go and enjoy the bouncy castle. Of course she wanted grownups there too, so A and I obliged, and there was great hilarity when I got on the castle and fell in a heap as it was really very bouncy and I guess I'm heavier than the kids! Anyway I had fun playing with them and it did nothing to restore the put together look!

The cousins had to go by late afternoon after which the rest of us drifted off. We will see them later in the year for their wedding.

Back at home, DH and I both decided we needed to rest, despite only having done a couple of thousand steps apiece, but after that we did some light gardening. More ground elder has been removed and I was happy to discover the mulch has largely stopped growth. Half the time was taken with picking gooseberries, which are abundant this year.

Expenditure:
Entertainment £45.50