Okay, so I’ve managed to let a week slip by without typing up Andy and I’s highly domesticated holiday, but never fear! here it comes…
Holiday really started Sat evening when my Dad picked us up and we headed over to my parents for tea. The whole gang was there, All 5 Sullivans, all four Hurrells, a Montgomery and an Allen. Much food was consumed as was much Asti, and of course much merriment was had.
Sunday, Andy and I spent the morning doing small chores together and in the afternoon set off for Upton Country park. It was a very windy day, but very bright and an other wise lovely walk around the end of Poole harbour and through the woods to the House. We met up with my parents again, and wandered around a craft fair [where I bought a little mole door stopper, a postcard of this and a necklace - four round moss agate stones in a circle]. We also walked around the grounds a bit – found the Tree I helped plant when I was Brownie and showed Andy the Romano-British Farmstead reconstruction – before heading home to my parents for scones, cream and jam 
Monday we headed out, again with the Sullivans [minus kelly, as well as the rat and his s/o], to Tollpuddle for a walk and then went back to the Sullivan’s for dinner and a movie.
Tues, we went out with Greg to B&Q to get pain for the planned decorations [more on that later] then went and did some shopping [we had no food due top a snaffu on TESCO's part on Sat] came home and ate and spend the rest of the day chatting.
Wed, I baked. A lot. I made a banana loaf, rocky road cake, a Victoria sponge and rice crispy cakes. Ian came over at some point and I got Andy to tidy a little and put some bits of furniture into the spare room ready for…
Thursday, in which we decorated! In the very morning, Kat and I went into Poole to pick up some stuff at the farmer’s market which consisted off mustard, white pudding, bread and cheese for me, jam, bread cheese and sausages for her. We also got a couple of sponges and a bucket for the decorating, and I delivered rice krispy cakes to work and Freespirit. Then when we got back Kat sat down and did getting job stuff, while the rest of us [luke, greg, ian and Andy] washed walls and painted. In the evening we had DnD and ate kebabs.
Friday Luke came over and we just sort of chilled for a while, discussing how to get into business and when we would write on the walls in our Dragon’s Blood, when Luke found a really nice Gaelic blessing:
May you have -
Walls for the wind
And a roof for the rain,
And drinks bedside the fire
Laughter to cheer you
And those you love near you,
And all that your heart may desire
He and Andy spent 3 hours translating it into Elvish and that’s what we now have transcribed on our walls. I’ll take a photo when I get the chance.
Sat day Kat, Luke, Barry, Daniel and and I went into Southampton shopping, which was a bit of a bust really. Kat and I found some nice [expensive] clothes from a place called Jane Norman, but other than a present for Kat, some rum flavoured mints [that turned out to be horrible and I gave to Luke] and lunch I didn’t really spend much at all 
Anyway, once we got home, they all come back to mine and we had Chinese.
Sunday was nice and relaxing, Luke came over and he started putting the stenciling on, we chatted, had pizza for dinner and generally geeked out.
[I've made up for not spending on sat through... With what I had left on Tuesday or Wednesday I bought Drama Con v2, Grave Peril by Jim Butcher and The Phantom Tollbooth [because of a conversation while walking on the previous Monday], and since then Drama Con v3, Roadsong v2, Sorcerers & Secretaries v2, Aoi House v2, Summer Knight by Jim Butcher and Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction from Amazon]
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