Chris, Bridget and Megan visited at the weekend – not Lucy, who had to work on Monday, when the rest of the family travelled back home.
After arriving early Saturday afternoon we had a relaxing afternoon, sorting out toys to put in a wooden chest that we have recently bought from friends who are emigrating to Australia, and which now lives in the living room, full of toys, freeing space in the large “family bedroom”.
We played board games before Chris and the girls joined me for a dog walk. We were soaked by a passing heavy squally shower, and Chris and Megan returned home, while Bridget bravely stayed with me and the dogs, trudging through the mud, some of which Bridget brought home on her tights and jacket, necessitating a clothes wash by Grannie Chas.
On Sunday Grannie Chas and I took the girls on another dog walk down to Croft, while Chris went shopping for some shirts, although this time both girls returned home with Grannie Chas soon after we reached the village, leaving me to stretch the dogs paws for a little further.
In the afternoon we all went to Abbey Park, collecting Andree on the way. We took the girls’ roller skates with us, and Megan skated quite a long way along the paths, aided by Grannie and Grandpa.Megan nearly lost her skates – well, actually Grandpa Coops nearly lost them, leaving the bag with the skates inside leaning against a post while photographing the girls feeding ducks, and forgetting to pick the bag up when we all went to play on the low walls marking put the layout of the original Abbey. Fortunately the bag was still there when we returned hotfoot and breathless to the river, where a couple were just contemplating whether to pick them up and hand them to someone as lost property.
On Monday Keith took the Chris and the girls to Twycross Zoo, before they headed back south to Hampshire.
See “Our Recent Photos” for more photos.
Technically we live in Oaktree House, but sadly the tree had to go.
We now have a thriving Oakstump at the front of the house.
