Le Weekend

Was very nice.
I was all packed and ready for my mystery weekend and we set off just before lunch on Saturday. And arrived at Bourton on the Water- a lovely little village in the Cotswolds. We were staying in a pretty B&B where we had a little cottage next to the Pub. Fabulous.
We started off having a lovely glass of wine in the garden ( which smelt amazing- full off honeysuckle) and then went for a drive around the area. So pretty - and really horse friendly. There were bridleways everywhere. I had a lot of envy- there are no bridleways really at home!
So we had a great meal that evening at the Pub, and Alice charmed the locals. Then we retired back to our little cottage that consisted of an open plan room with a bedroom and lounge, and a bathroom just off it. As Alice normally sleeps in her own room at home we decided to put her at the bottom of our bed in her travel cot. Her travel cot is a bizarre shaped mosquito proof contraption which is oval to look at from the side. much to Alice's disgust she gets zipped into it and expected to sleep. So we popped her in it and settled down into the lounge with a bottle of wine to watch CSI ( proper romantics aren't we..)
Only to find that as Alice was in an open plan room with us she had decided against sleeping, preferring to sit up and watch TV. We thought that if we ignored her she may nod off... ha blooming ha....She was dancing to the music, saying 'hiya' whenever a phone rang and trying to make a break for freedom out her cot. She realised that if she leaned on the oval shaped cot thingy then it rolled across the room. We had a free range child. Not using the cot in the manner in which the manufacturers intended it I fear. She was wild. Eventually she nodded off though, but it was a valiant effort from her.
And on Sunday we gave Mark his fathers day gifts ( gliding trip and framed foot prints and a poem from Alice) which he was very happy with. I have no intention of ever getting in a glider. Its my worst nightmare. But Mark is very enthusiastic, when questioned he said ' you only die once', true I suppose, but I like to try and avoid death. Scares the pants off me flying.
Then we went for a nice potter around the town, vising Birdland- where Alice got to watch the penguins and thought it was great.
And I managed to fins some beautiful glass coasters which I got terribly over excited about and bought a set for Mark and I and a set for some friends getting married this weekend. They are so so pretty. I'm going to see if they have website so everyone I know will be getting them for Birthdays / Christmas etc. I'm completely in love with them.
And unfortunately after such a great weekend I had to come back. Grr. But all was well at home and the ponies were well behaved in my absence. I think they like being feral.
And just as we had popped Alice to bed and cracked open the vino, our local farmer turned up to say he had a free day and would dig out the remaining stream area and pipe it. All that would be great if it didn't involve disconnecting the electrics for the field lights and arena lights and dismantling the fencing at 9 pm, on 3 legs ( 2 of Marks and 1 of mine) after a couple of glasses if wine. Comedy moments a plenty.
But we got it all done, and I even managed to convince the farmer to top and spray my fields for me tomorrow and let me pop my horses in one of his fields for a couple of weeks while the fields recovers from operation banish the dock leave. Barginous.
So a fun and productive weekend. I had a great time and am rather loathe to be at work today. Ho hum.