She was expecting to do well apparently: it was made clear that we should have a bottle of champagne to hand ready to put in the fridge as soon as we got back from Dorset and checked the post. This from the girl who, along with her two 17 year old friends, whom we had taken to stay at the cottage for a few days before the family, said “No thank-you” when asked if they’d like to keep the half bottle of wine and the cans of lager not yet cleared out of the fridge by our friends who had been visiting. (Gosh that sounds complicated! Our friends borrowed the cottage for a few days; we took Eldest down to take over from them and joined them for lunch; they took their stuff, but offered to leave food if the girls wanted it.)
I don’t suppose a taste for champagne will do her any harm: she only had a glass so sadly we had to have the rest.
You may be amused to hear the girls had eaten well, watched lots of DVDs on a laptop, played cards and Monopoly, walked all of a hundred yards to the farm to feed the ducks and buy ice-creams and had had one decent walk over the hill to the pub for supper. One of the three, we were informed, “doesn’t do walks”.
Note: the background is Wiltshire not Dorset, but the girl is mine.
7 comments:
enormous congratulations! well done to Eldest!
I sympathise entirely with the no-walk brigade. Congratulations on the achievements, though. A sense of relief all round, I bet.
Thank-you both, and I might pass on the congrats: Eldest was somewhat horrified to realise I wrote about family life!
fantatic! - celebrations all round :)
Welcome Elsie, and thank=you.
Wonderful! May I use this as an excuse to have a glass of champagne, too?
Of course you should I'm Crayon!
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