I started doing this diary in June. If you haven't been following have a look at the Cast of Characters which gives a quick low down on the essential day to day characters who are mentioned here...it will make more sense if you do.

The sun was actually kind of out today. It wasn't warm enough to just sit there but if you were out doing something active it was enough to shed your shirt for. I was chopping wood most of the afternoon so it felt hot. I got the trailerload of wood from WIT camp all split up and stowed away in a nice woodstack in the barn. Looks like loads but I know fine that it will be gone in a couple of weeks. Clare came round in the middle of that, just as I was having a break for a sandwich and a cup of tea and then Petra arrived with the trailer.

Somehow I had committed to providing Sunday Dinner. Proper sunday dinner is a big deal here, you HAVE to have roast potatoes, gravy, stuffing, yorkshire pudding, vegetables and a plausible alternative to a hunk of incinerated flesh. That is what sunday dinner is, anything else is just a dinner that you eat on sunday. I first wanted to not do it at all when I went into the kitchen and found all the saucepans were dirty. I muttered about it all over the house and Lorna washed them up for me. When I went to scrub the potatoes and found my sucker brush was missing I left the kitchen... after I had looked for it a lot. This is an essential item... it looks like a very old, overused scrubbing brush but it has two suckers underneath which attatch it to the sink and that way I can scrub potatoes, carrots etc. I hate it when I can't do something to the extent that I have to ask someone else to do it, and even more when the task is something so fundamental. Anyway Lorna saw all this going on and came and fetched me when she had scrubbed the potatoes. At that point I did actually get on and make the dinner, Lorna was probably wondering what I was going to refuse to do next. Apart from asking Lauren to clean the carrots I managed the rest of it by myself. Of course I cooked far too much but then I always do.

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