just another morning here

We had a day of torrential rain yesterday, which didn’t matter too much as all we had to fit in was orchestra, Suzuki group lesson, and then Anna and I went out to Exmouth in the evening for a Youth Orchestra concert. That was quite amusing actually, they were performing alongside the Exmouth Shanty Men, who (obviously) sang sea shanties, unaccompanied bar a drum, in period costume. Very entertaining.
Also the first time I have had to administer first aid while on duty at an orchestra concert; the youngest member of EYO managed to trip over something and bump his nose right between the eyes, and it came up in a big lump just like on a cartoon. Managed to find a little bag of frozen peas from the church kitchen (luckily a well stocked church!) and after 10 mins of holding that on his nose it looked much better!

Today, thankfully, dawned bright and clear. We got up and left the boys in bed (or on Wii) and went down to Bovey Tracey for the Contemporary Craft Fair with Ruth, Caitlin and Riona. My girls had been with them before but I hadn’t; plenty to do and see there, they enjoyed making stuff in the children’s craft tent and I enjoyed looking around the various exhibitions. Managed not to spend too much money! Ruth took some nice photos of the girls there … not sure what was going on with the dog!

After lunch I abandoned the rest of them and went off caching; ever since getting to 197 finds last week I’ve been itching to get another three! Happily did that this afternoon, and then another two which were killers, on the coast again, down steep hills both times – I’m tired! My arms were already hurting from playing too much DK Jungle Beat on the Wii yesterday, now my legs hurt as well, and I got somewhat scratched and stung in the hunt for one elusive cache as well. Oh well, it was all good fun, and the sun shone. Absolutely MUST set one of my own soon.

Home for dinner, some tidying up and laundry sorting (much to everyone else’s disgust – yes it *does* need doing before Monday morning) and looking forward to the final of the Apprentice in a minute

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