just another morning here

We normally only get together with this branch of our family all together at special occasions like Christmas, so it does sort of feel like an elongated version of that, rather than any other time of year!

Of course Easter is a special occasion as well. We celebrated yesterday together – we had an egg hunt in the courtyard here, with chocolate eggs as well as plastic ones with clues to the Easter story inside (which my friend Liz had sent – and I have to specially thank her as everyone here appreciated it, it worked really well ). After hunting we went indoors and sat round the table to look at the Easter story clues, and then Dad read the Bible and we all tried to sing a hymn that only three of us could remember! (think Steve has some amusing photos of that but he’s not as sad as me so you won’t see those till we get home).

Dad and Lorraine went off to church leaving the rest of us to muck around here – Mark cooked a stunning roast beef dinner on the Aga (which none of us are used to so it was more by luck than judgement!).

After dinner we went on a long walk from the farmhouse to Belstone Tor – didn’t quite make it to the very top before turning round to come back. Stopped for a drink in the pub at Belstone and then walked home again. Took us 3.5 hours altogether and Elodie walked most of the way too which was very impressive! Played Trivial Pursuit in the evening. In fact we’ve played board games most evenings which has been a highlight of the week for us so far.

Today has been more mellow, lots of games/reading … some people went to Castle Drogo while others went swimming. I have held onto my family Nurtz (a fast card game, think it has other names but we always called it Nurtz) champion title for today at least, and there is a very serious Scrabble game underway as I write, as well as a less serious Buzz game going on too.

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