On Monday, Arwen & I spent the day with her friend Louise & her mum/my friend Liz at Cart Gap beach. The girls had a whale of a time in the sea while Liz & I enjoyed just sitting on the sanding chatting & watching them have fun.On Tuesday, we took a trip to Orford in Suffolk to visit the castle keep that is there. We also walked round the village and went down to the quay. It is such a pretty little village, very much a fishing village. The keep was amazing and Billy treated Arwen to a longsword :)
On the way back, we drove past the biggest field of sunflowers. Sunflowers are my favourite flower of all so naturally I made Billy stop the car so I could take photo's :)
Wednesday, well Wednesday, as anyone who knows me will tell you isn't my favourite day of the week, was spent in two halves. In the morning, I will admit that I was a big grouch and that is how I usually am on Wednesday mornings as it's my designated housework day and I hate doing housework! Well, that's not entirely true, I hate the thought of doing it which makes me a big grouch but once I am doing it and I can see the results, I start feeling ok again. In the afternoon, I took our hound Marley to the local woods with Arwen, Asha and our friend Jen. We love going here, such a beautiful place. Arwen & Jen walked the entire way round sword fighting with sticks - well, when Marley wasn't trying to grab them that is :)
Thursday was spent at home relaxing, well for a little while anyway. After lunch, I decided to take a trip to Redwings, a rescue centre for horses & donkeys. It wasn't very big so we only spent a hour or so walking round, but it was lovely just to get out of the house.
And then yesterday, another fun filled day spent with friends. Arwen & I went to the Hillside Animal & Shire Horse Sanctuary with Arwen's friend Savannah & her mum/my friend Jo. Hillside is so much bigger than Redwings but every bit as lovely. It's reasonably priced too, it cost £10 for Arwen & I, plus she got to adopt one of the animals there for free for a whole year as part of the admission price. We went last year and she adopted William, the huge gentle giant of a shire horse. This year she chose Katy the Pony. We were there for hours and had such a fab time. The girls loved every minute of it :)
So, yes, definitely a really good week :)
