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News from the farm
Dec. 27th, 2011 07:43 pmDearest Fiends,
I do hope that you've all had fantabulous christmases. We've just spent a glorious week in the deepest depths of rurality with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sara_lou. I say this with no exaggeration... the farmhouse that we're staying in is located in "nameless road" according to the Sat Nav and can only be navigated to via several miles of winding, hilly, muddy, unlit track and a cattle grid and a field **urban fear**.
The house itself is lovely - cosy but spacious with a living room full of books and a huge open fireplace and a country kitchen and a rolltop bath. Also the views are amazing... I must post some pics when I get home. We've spent the week with no mobile phone signal - but thankfully the owners prevented me from coming out in hives by supplying a wifi signal that we can pick up from one corner of the (GORGE) kitchen.
Being a load of foodie troughers, we've spent most of the week ensconced in the kitchen overlooking rolling hills whilst glugging a variety of alcoholic beverages and cooking big dinners. Sara Lou has baked fresh bread every single day and I swear there is no bread on earth that tastes as good.
On boxing day Sara went for a walk in the nearby field and had a rare sighting of human life... a load of tweedy duffers with shotguns hunting pheasants. Then, while she was entertaining her mum and brother, G and I took Micro for a jolly overnight stay in Sidmouth with his grandma and today we met up again in Lyme Regis, which I'd never been to before. What a lovely place - I wouldn't mind going back sometime and renting a seafront house for a holiday. (It appears to specialise in pretty coloured houses, fossils, Jane Austen and French Leutenants women.)
Tonight is our last night in the house and we're going to wind down with a spread of roast chestnuts, baked camembert and Sara's home made mushroom soup and another divine loaf. Tomorrow we'll be saying a sad farewell and hopefully getting our deposit back for no breakages! Then we're tootling off to Somerset for a few hours so that Jim-Jam can meet his cousins for the first time and finally back to good old Twickers for a dose of suburbanity.
My lil fluffbags have been at home all week with my sister who has probably spoiled them with kitty reiki. I expect they will look upon my return with utter "meh" ...but they'll get compulsory cuddles anyway and at least Jim Jam will be excited because he'll get to bounce around on his auntie.
I dread to think how we're going to fit all of Micro's pressies into our residence. What on earth happened to my resolve? I SWORE there would be no baby tat... (next year there will be a one-in-one-out rule. Got that?)
Saddo that I am, I am rather looking forward to getting back to some stockpiled telly, not least the sleb special episodes of University Challenge. (G and I are such geeks that we both bought each other the Uni C quiz book for xmas.) Also G bought me the last instalment of Harry Potter on DVD, which I never got to see on the bg screen - yippee!
Well I suppose I should stop wittering on now and be sociable. Happy hols everyone. x
I do hope that you've all had fantabulous christmases. We've just spent a glorious week in the deepest depths of rurality with
sara_lou. I say this with no exaggeration... the farmhouse that we're staying in is located in "nameless road" according to the Sat Nav and can only be navigated to via several miles of winding, hilly, muddy, unlit track and a cattle grid and a field **urban fear**.The house itself is lovely - cosy but spacious with a living room full of books and a huge open fireplace and a country kitchen and a rolltop bath. Also the views are amazing... I must post some pics when I get home. We've spent the week with no mobile phone signal - but thankfully the owners prevented me from coming out in hives by supplying a wifi signal that we can pick up from one corner of the (GORGE) kitchen.
Being a load of foodie troughers, we've spent most of the week ensconced in the kitchen overlooking rolling hills whilst glugging a variety of alcoholic beverages and cooking big dinners. Sara Lou has baked fresh bread every single day and I swear there is no bread on earth that tastes as good.
On boxing day Sara went for a walk in the nearby field and had a rare sighting of human life... a load of tweedy duffers with shotguns hunting pheasants. Then, while she was entertaining her mum and brother, G and I took Micro for a jolly overnight stay in Sidmouth with his grandma and today we met up again in Lyme Regis, which I'd never been to before. What a lovely place - I wouldn't mind going back sometime and renting a seafront house for a holiday. (It appears to specialise in pretty coloured houses, fossils, Jane Austen and French Leutenants women.)
Tonight is our last night in the house and we're going to wind down with a spread of roast chestnuts, baked camembert and Sara's home made mushroom soup and another divine loaf. Tomorrow we'll be saying a sad farewell and hopefully getting our deposit back for no breakages! Then we're tootling off to Somerset for a few hours so that Jim-Jam can meet his cousins for the first time and finally back to good old Twickers for a dose of suburbanity.
My lil fluffbags have been at home all week with my sister who has probably spoiled them with kitty reiki. I expect they will look upon my return with utter "meh" ...but they'll get compulsory cuddles anyway and at least Jim Jam will be excited because he'll get to bounce around on his auntie.
I dread to think how we're going to fit all of Micro's pressies into our residence. What on earth happened to my resolve? I SWORE there would be no baby tat... (next year there will be a one-in-one-out rule. Got that?)
Saddo that I am, I am rather looking forward to getting back to some stockpiled telly, not least the sleb special episodes of University Challenge. (G and I are such geeks that we both bought each other the Uni C quiz book for xmas.) Also G bought me the last instalment of Harry Potter on DVD, which I never got to see on the bg screen - yippee!
Well I suppose I should stop wittering on now and be sociable. Happy hols everyone. x
