Categories: rusk, food-and-drink, life-in-general, reading
Tags: coffee, beach, beer, relax, day off, paddle
Date: 26 June 2010 20:57:14
It has been a very relaxing couple of days.
Yesterday included a trip to the beach, meeting up with some people from college. They kindly took over the sandcastle building duties and kept Rusk busy for a couple of hours. Sensible boy: he point-blank refused to paddle in the North Sea. I had thought that this week might be my only chance of a warm day on the beach and a swim in the sea, so I tried. I really tried, but it was just too cold. My friend who had accompanied me corroborated my story of only intending a paddle (to mid-thigh) in the first place. At least the Irish Sea feels warm after a little while - I knew it was a mistake to come East.
Checking out a new tea-room came next. Three Cheers! There is somewhere to buy fairtrade, decaff coffee within 2 miles of home, and they do take-away. We admired the piglets and pigs who were sunning themselves in their enclosure, then headed home to play Bananagrams. This is a totally addictive game and I recommend it to any people who like to play with words.
When I got up this morning, Mr F asked me why I hadn't gone out last night. Oops - funny how meetings just slip your mind when lovely people spontaneously come to visit. I discovered subsequently that the meeting had just assumed that because it was my day off I wouldn't be there. Normally I wouldn't have, but having had the rare occurrence of a week without evening meetings, I had planned to go. No-one (except you and the person I talked to about it this afternoon) need ever be the wiser.
I had book group this morning. I think we talked about books only a couple of times in the hour, but very much put the world to rights. I'm currently waiting for the second Steig Larsson, having devoured the first one a couple of weeks ago.
This afternoon I took Rusk to a parish coffee afternoon. He was at his most charming and spent a good half hour climbing in and out of the patio. He collected half the toy stall and put it ready for us to take home, but then changed his mind and put it all back on the stall. He also became fascinated with the tombola drum - this got quite expensive and we didn't even win anything!
Finally, after Rusk was in bed (his big bed for only the second night), we settled down to watch the finale of Doctor Who with home-made curry and a cold beer.
Phew! This relaxation lark is tiring.