Nice not to have to get up early to walk the dog before 8 am. Suki came back exhausted and slightly stressed. Seemed to settle better after short walk. Spent the day catching up with stuff having put life on hold to learn St John! Mega ironing session - watched Comic Relief night on iPlayer. Did a bit of mending and email housekeeping too. Second attempt at making bread - made bread pudding! Perfectly edible, especially with honey spread on it - but sweet and stodgy rather than bread. Relaxing evening watching TV and early night was a lovely change after hectic week.
Roving Ringers/Cottage holiday Leominster
28th July - 4th August 2018 Photos Itinerary Mike was based with Rovers at the YHA in Leominster , while Suki and I stayed in a cottage a few minutes drive away - The Owl Barn near Kimbolton. Just a few days after the Barnes Summer Trip we were off on the Roving Ringers week. At the last minute it seemed that no-one was going to be organising the catering, so I ended up taking this on - with the help of a suggested menu and shopping list from Becky, who would be providing the meat. I cooked a vegetable pasta sauce for the first night, and then did a huge online Sainsbury order to be delivered direct to the hostel on the Saturday night. This worked extremely well - and it was certainly much more pleasant to sit in the garden on my computer than pushing two trolleys around a supermarket and then packing/unpacking the car. It was just as well we did it like that as there wasn't much room in the car for shopping once we had got all our stuff and the handbike and