So, we got up the day after the party. Or, I got up. By the time Barb and then The Builder emerged I had washed up and tidied up and washed up and put the dining room furniture back in place and washed up and sorted out the lounge room and washed up and been extremely careful with my one remaining clean and dry tea towel and my one remaining clean dish cloth and washed up and made a cup of coffee.
Did I remember to mention that I had done the washing up?
We took Barb out for a round about drive to the Chatsworth Farm Shop (where there was not a chicken to be had at all :-S ) then we came home in a different round about way. And then Barb went home and The Builder and I made a start on eating up the party left overs (there was lots of party, pasty and sausage roll filling left).
On Wednesday we went out to Bakewell to have lunch with some friends. They have a beautiful house on the edge of Bakewell up at the top of a hill. As we got there the clouds darkened and the heavens opened - and we abandoned our plans to have a post-prandial stroll through the countryside to a convivial pub and settled in for a lovely lunch and conviviality at their place. And, of course, as we eventually headed home (via the Chatsworth Farm Shop, where we snapped up the very last remaining chicken - what is it with people bulk buying chickens this week???), the clouds cleared and the sun came out. Next time we'll go for that walk!
It had once again crossed Freyja's mind earlier in the week, that Thursday would again find her, Tabitha, Cally, The Builder and me (but not Gaz who was, poor boy, at work) free and available to meet for lunch. Also - she and Tabitha still had the Aussie party supplies held to ransom. So I baked the ransom of pasties and a veggie pasty and round to Taffa's place we went for a yummy and spectacularly unhealthy lunch of barbecue shapes, twisties, chocolate mint slices and double decker chocolate - a dietary catastrophe mitigated only by the relative healthfulness of my home made pasties!!! (Cally refused the healthfulness and insisted on eating twisties and chocolate biscuits :-D )
Yesterday we mostly pottered about. We went out to a Farm and Smallholding supply shop near Rowsley for some chickeny supplies - and had lunch at home. And once again I seem to have done none of the useful things I was intending to do during my week off. It has been rather nice and restful though, once we got the party done with. But now I must get up. We are shortly due to leave for somewhere near Loughborough, where The Builder's Birthday Present activity from Jeanette and Matthew is due to take place. (At least the weather is looking good for it; it's been predictably cool and showery for most of this week!!)
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