Finn and I cycled down to town in beautiful sunny weather. We encountered a brass band, a couple teaching the public The Tango (Spook was SO lucky he wasn't there), a man playing the piano inside a tiny dolls house where everyone had to lie down on their tummies and peer in the window to see him. We could hear the plink plonk of the toy piano, but were too dignified to get a good look. And there was an exhausted International face painter in the library with 100 children wanting their faces done.
We did very well to enjoy ourselves, only spending $12. We borrowed magazines from the library to satisfy everyones taste. The Artist for me, New Zealand mountain biking and Adventure for Spook, Yoga for Meg and HUNTER for Finn. Unfortunately, the $12 was a deposit for his snowboarding helmet and we agreed that he could have the $600 board and bindings if he would pay $400 of his own money from Scotland. He is delighted with this deal. A lot of pleasure for a small deposit. I will need to clean a bit more next week.
We called by the hot chocolate and gift shop so that I could remind her that Meg would love to have some work experience with her. She will be away for a month, but hasn't ruled out the possibility. She also paints and recommended I join the local Art Society. I suppose I can't keep persuading the children to do things and not do them myself, so I will join, AND I will go and play badminton with Maggie on Monday night. She is a full-on expert and I haven't played since I joined the village group when I was 17. I was very bad then, I don't expect the tennis lessons to have improved things much.
Finn and I came back for lunch, by which time Meg had gone horse riding with Smithy and Ceilidh ( she is going to change the spelling). Spook came home from his 85k road cycle up the west coast road and we went over to the Sticky Woods so Finn could make some air and I did a couple of very enjoyable running laps round the forest.
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