Stranded (by sarah)

Late Thursday night I got to the designated pick up point and discovered that dad was not there 🙁 So I phoned him and lo! he was still at the Mill and was quiet hypo (hypoglycemic - low blood sugar levels - dad is an insuline dependent siabetic) and I was stuck in Cheltenham at 11 o'clock with a car pulling up next to me - so being paranoid I legged it whilst still talking Dad into eating another buscuit. Barbara had just come back so I was sort of hoping she would make sure he eat the busciut and hung up and started to phone my writting teachter, but alas and alack... voice mail, I carried on heading towards her house anyway.

Phoned Dad again and convinced him to make himself a proper sandwitch, hung up and was about to panickally phone Ella in Wincester to get my friend Andrews number as he lives in Cheltenham so that I could then phone him if I didn't get through to my writting teatcher - fortunatly she phoned back at this point - informed me I was actually outside her house and let me in.

At this point I was wondering why on earth I had ignored my instincts - I had purposly gone against my cut instinct in order to not upset Dad who had been mantaining earlier that day that I keep checking up on him too much. I therefore did not phone to remind about afternoon snake and I even ignored the faint panicy feeling later in the everning to checked head eaten enough dinner. The worst bit was my writting teatcher had been being all panicky and thought I shouldnt go to the meeting spot on my own - ironicallly if I'd listerned to her I'd have simply had a lift home curtasy of a nice woman from the group but I didn't and so I found my self stranded at Anna's (the writing teachers) house.

I knew dad would be whiped out ofter such a bad hypo (it wasnt at coma inducing levels but missed them but a little tiny bit) so I told him to sleep in the Mill in my bed in the warm as I'd already been nervous about him sleeping in the Bakery which currently has no heating as I'm sure the temperature extremes where making his sugar levels go all over the place.

I slept on the setee at Annas flate watching for a good while some cute bloke on the TV going around the world via the Tropic of Capricorn, which was actually really interesting. I also spent half the night writting down story ideas and concepts and reading my New Scientist. For me it actually ended up being a very constructive day and is probably responsible for the only time I have ever actually read the whole of one New Scientist before the next one arrives!

UFO (by sarah)

On the 9th of Febuary 2008 at approximatly 6:30 pm I spotted a strange fast and smooth moving star heading from approximatly west to east does anybody know what this was?

I was wondering if it was some satallite or the International Space Station etc... It looked very much like when we saw the space shuttle catching up with it last year.

New Step (by sarah)

Obviously we had to have the bottom step replaced - unfortunatly I wasnt there to get a photo of the old one being pulled out etc... but here is our shiny new step though I'm not entirely sure why they've made it wil so many screws visible on the top surface - I know they are counter sank but it still ruins the idea of having a middle carpet thing on the stairs with the sides exposed. I've never seen a step made like this. Still its sturdy and it means we are a step closer to being back in our home 🙂 Sorry I just had to get a joke in there somewhere!

Secrets of the Fireplace revealed (by sarah)

The Wood burner had to be removed for the holes behind it to be plugged up from the inside - the tunnel men have already repaired the holes in the tunnel. The wood burner also needed to be checked out for thinning from the rust.

Too our suprise lurking behind it is this buetiful cogg thing set into the wall - it looks like it was probably from the middle of one of the mill wheels or something. It seems such a shame that it is covered up by the fire - What I hope we will be able to do in future is replace the current wood burner with a smaller more effecient one with a glass door etc... which will be able to sit to one side of the cogg so that it gets seen - the builders have cleaned it out and it would make a nice little trinket shelf 🙂 Then the old preserving pan can sit the other side of it as our coal bucket etc... and it will look nice and rustic in a sarah and Al type of way 🙂 but for now it will have to go back into hiding.

A bit of a Catch up (by sarah)

As some of you may have noticed there hasn't been any blogging in Feburary - this was due to building work on the Bakery resulting in no power and no internet but I have been writing the posts off line - I have just sent them all live from the McDonalds in Stroud who turn out to have free Wiifi 🙂 I think I have just become a champion of drinking coffee very very slowely!

I will now endeverour to read about 1000 or so emials that have been waiting for me - also I abviously haven't been checking face book or anything. I have just a bit of work to catch up on here 🙂