It was a new one on me. ‘Coronating’ the King. I had never heard of such a thing, but yes, it actually is a bona fide word. Anyway, we thought we’d have a family party. Any excuse to get together, drink champagne, eat lots of lovely food, chatter and play.
We started off with bacon butties and ended with a buffet lunch/tea. But, do you know what? We were having such a good time that we forgot to do the Piñata!! It wasn’t until everyone was going home that I remembered, and by then it was too late. “Never mind,” soothed Danielle, “we’ll have it at Thomas’s party instead.”
The children had a good time, too. “Can we get the craft box down?” Freddie asked. Yes, of course. I popped it on the kitchen table, poured some paint and they dug in. I meandered into the lounge, leaving them to it. Quite a long while later, Harriet went into the kitchen and then came back into the lounge, horrified. “We’ve left the children unsupervised!!” she exclaimed, “There’s glitter everywhere!” Hehehe. Yup! The kids had had a great time!! I wondered why they were so quiet……
Naturally, we had brought toys downstairs for the children to play with but who needs toys when you’ve got other, more interesting stuff………? Hehe! Oliver loves a dishwasher!!
Oliver was clearly having a ‘standing up’ day yesterday. Not quite walking but steady on his pins. “Clap hands!” we all chorused as he stood, looking as pleased as punch with himself as he got ready for bed. And he did. Bless him.
The day was great fun – as it always is with the family. The only thing was, I think we were quite loud. Anyway, after we’d eaten some of the buffet, John felt overwhelmed by it all and took himself off upstairs to lay down on the bed. An afternoon nap is normally a good thing but he didn’t feel so great when he came down again. So, after the family had left about seven o’clock, we just spent a quiet evening together.
The family had tidied up before they left, but there was still a fair bit of crockery waiting to go into the already-busy dishwasher, so it wasn’t quite like the Wrinklies Cartoon in the house, (and sorry for the repeat showing of this, it always makes us chuckle) but this is what we felt like……… and we’ll be discovering glitter for months to come I expect!! Tee-hee!
We had planned to go over to Kenilworth Castle today and watch the Lion King with the Kenilworth Newbies, but it was a slow start for John who is not as well as I’d like him to be – although his cold has improved greatly. He’s feeling weary and everything is an effort. So we decided to stay home for the day – until the plan changed this afternoon!
I had got up early to greet the Ocado delivery driver at 7.30 with all the goodies. I had got fed up doing the order and just allowed a previous order to roll on. Ha! Ha! That was a mistake! I mean, a bottle of Port and a huge bottle of sherry? It must have been the Christmas order….. Anyway, suffice to say that we can’t eat three bags of carrots and two packs of pear, a pineapple, 8 bananas, 2 boxes of mushrooms and so on, before we set off tomorrow for our few days away can we?? I think Andrew is going to eat well when he gets home*……..
Once the shopping was all put away, I suddenly remembered that I’d ordered some play sand from Argos in Kenilworth, so we decided to nip over and collect it, and take some of the excess food to the Kenilworth Newbies. As it was a lovely day, I suggested we might go to the pub on the way back. “Let’s see what time the family will have finished at the Castle,” I said. In the end, it was Michael who phoned us and we had happy hour drinking beer and cider in the sunshine. Nice end to the weekend. Ah…. family!!
……*which reminds me! Andrew will be home this week!! He has waved goodbye to Midsummer House and is moving on to pastures new. Nice tribute from Daniel Clifford on Instagram on Andrew’s last day today:
Take care everyone. God bless. Hope you enjoy the rest of long weekend.
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Have a wonderful time in Cornwall xxx
Ooo Kernow, where are you going to?
Lovely tribute to Andrew. We wish him well as he moves to pastures green😊
Hope you enjoy your stay in Cornwall and you come back rested and refreshed 😃😃xx