just another morning here

No prizes for guessing what colour our tent is. Can’t believe how little I had the camera out, I am hoping that someone else will compensate …

The forecast was for rain pretty much solidly for the next three days (Thurs, Fri, Sat), so I decided to take the tent down early in order to avoid having to do it in the rain. Call me a wimp if you like I guess I might not have done the same thing if I didn’t live so nearby, but what the heck, I don’t really care if I’m being a wuss or not, I’m home, dry, and sleeping in a nice warm bed!

So much of this morning was spent tidying/re-packing our stuff, in a leisurely manner. I managed to pop up to the top of the field and have coffee with some of my local friends who were also at hesfes, and on the way met a fellow blogger – all due to my ‘blogging this’ t-shirt, so that amused me somewhat – scroll down a bit on this page for the photo.

Just about managed to collect all the children together at lunchtime and we went over to the beach for the labyrinth building, but it was really windy, so we ended up in the cafe for a hot chocolate/ice cream instead! Stayed on the beach for a bit, but not that long – but it was nice to have been part of something bigger with other fellow hesfesers. Back at the site, we finished taking the tent down and stuffed everything in the car – just about managed to fit it all in so Steve was spared having to come and transport children.

Merry and her family have decamped too, and re-camped in our house! We are planning to go back to Charmouth tomorrow for some of the day, and then we have the pleasure of the Puddles’ company for another night as well I think. Josiah is insistent that as it is Thursday tomorrow, *he* should go to Start Right, but I think he’s way too tired, and I definitely can’t see us being ready to take him at the right time in the morning!

Well, tonight is freezing – it will be a short post as my fingers really are too cold to type. We have an extra child sleeping over in our tent tonight so that has been fun – they only went to bed about half an hour ago having spent most of the evening managing to lose one another despite many instructions to stay together.

It’s been a nice mainly sunny day, in fact I have caught the sun and have an embarrassingly glowing red nose. Haven’t done much Hesfes stuff myself although the children have been partaking of various activities.

Abbie’s shop is still doing okay although sales have dropped off over the last day or so – there was competition from another scoubidou stall this morning and I ended up teaching the kids there how to do the 6-strand ones … anyway, it’s kept Abigail well entertained and she has enjoyed spending the profits, tonights purchases have included chips from the take-away and I think she was feeding the 10p machines in the bar as well.

Anna has mainly been playing with various friends, they went up to do copper beating today but it was on hesfes-time (similar to African time, for those not in the know – something may or may not happen at the advertised time, in fact it may or may not happen at all), so she ended up making a wooden spoon which still needs finishing I think, it looks like a wooden lollipop at the moment.

Josiah has been playing lots with Master Portico – they have matching hats which are rather cute. He’s mainly been around the tent with the odd excursion to the play park.

Toilets have got marginally better today, I think, although I’ve still been avoiding them really – went for a shower at Nic’s caravan today which was nice, if a little scalding hot-freezing cold and not very much inbetween!

We’re planning to go over to the beach for the hesfes labyrinth building tomorrow, so that should be interesting, we didn’t get to it this year and I thought it would kill two birds with one stone (taking part in some hesfes stuff and visiting the dreaded beach – only dreaded by me, I hate sand).

Think that’s it for now … time for bed, I reckon

Another nice day – sunny so far and has been very relaxed. We’ve spotted a few friends and drunk lots of tea and coffee Scoubidoo workshop was happening at the muddlepuddle camp earlier which was amusing, there might be a photo lurking somewhere …

This afternoon has been trendy-woolly-hat-buying time, my girls both spent their money on one, and Abigail bought me one too – in the most outrageous colours, but what the heck, it will keep my head warm this evening – last night I slept with one of Josiah’s fleeces on my head!

Haven’t seen much of Anna so I assume she’s been enjoying herself, she’s been playing so much that she missed a dance workshop she wanted to go to this morning, she may or may not have gone to the archaeology one she wanted to get to this afternoon. Last night I had to wait for her to get back before I could go to bed!

Oh, and good news for us this morning – another new cousin for the children and a new niece for me – welcome to Elodie, born at home early this morning