But We Also Saw the Sunflowers

 The weekend visit from the Surrey family turned out to be very exhausting with a distinct lack of sleep for everyone due to Son-in-Law going down with a really horrible cold and cough on his journey up, Youngest Grandson had a bit of upset tummy and sickness on Saturday which he passed onto mummy (Eldest Daughter) on Sunday night ,who was really poorly and Eldest Grandson spent a lot of time being a seven year old grump! - probably due to all the above.

Then on Monday morning Daughter-in-Law, who is a teaching assistant, had to go into school to do preparation which she hadn't realised until quite late, so Middle Grandson and Youngest Granddaughter were here for the morning too and I had to just deliver the cakes that I'd spent Sunday morning baking (after the family went out) to the WI coffee morning rather than staying to help. Dashing back as quickly as possible to look after grandchildren while Daughter rested and Son-in-Law had to drive 10 miles to get his electric car quick charged before their journey home.

Monday afternoon after everyone had gone I cancelled going to evening WI and this weeks exercise class as I reckoned it was going to take me another day or three to recover and thank goodness I did  because I woke up in the middle of Monday night with a variation of the bug they had kindly passed onto me! It lasted all through Tuesday which I spent alternating between laying on the settee, reading and resting and doing more bits of clearing up, stripping beds, and putting things back in their rightful places after visitors. Thankfully it was only a 24 hour thing so I'm fine again now - although still tired.

(Probably good that Youngest Daughter and Eldest Granddaughter were away on holiday and missed joining in the madness)

In between all the sickness, coughing and grumpy-ness we did manage a couple of things together - firstly a Sunflower Maze, just up the road from home. 

They actually have 3 sunflower mazes but by the time we'd been round the longest and biggest we decided that was enough . And maze is a bit of a misnomer as it only had one very winding path through and no dead ends so it was impossible to get lost which was probably a Very Good Thing!

The eldest two grandchildren liked the bale mountain - giant straw bales piled up and the youngest two got help to get to the top and also liked the sand pits made from giant tractor tyres.

Eldest Grandson  on top of the giant bale mountain at a time he wasn't grumpy!  I rather like this photo- it will be printed out to update the photo frame.

Back Tomorrow.

Sue