Anyone needing the toilet had to be accompanied back into the 'house', where they found Emma's old bedroom with the wall paper peeling off the damp walls. "It looks much smaller than I remember", one friend commented. "Where's all your stuff?!", another asked.
Adrian surpassed himself and managed to fashion a fabulous Hogwarts creation, made entirely of shop-bought cake and confectionary! Perfect for Harry-Potter-mad Emma.
Unfortunately, all of the slippy mud led to me taking a nasty tumble the next day as I trekked up to the house for my first toilet trip of the morning. I landed flat in the mud, in my pyjamas, and felt a right wally even though no-one would have seen. It really shook me and I lay there for what felt like ages until I could ascertain whether anything was broken. I was able to get up, covered in chalky mud, and a bit shaky, but seemingly OK. As the day wore on, however, I stiffened up and became increasingly sore. By bedtime my left hip was very creaky and my neck tender. I'm still hobbling about like an old woman and hoping to feel better soon. The irony is that, the day before, we had started laying some plastic paving track along the length of the garden to provide a much-needed non-slip pathway through the mud, and at the time of falling I was just thinking to myself how good the first new section of pathway worked, when BOOM, the remaining bit of mud caught me out!
The rain is still falling, as I write, and I think we had better be prepared for plenty more wet weather. It is October after all! (Adrian has managed to construct a raised floor inside the awning - made out of timber and boards reclaimed from the dismantled roof - so that everything is off the floor and all rain water can now pass underneath. Much better. He has also stiffened up the boards under our caravan bed which were just ever so slightly sagging, but were very noticeable with poorly hips.)
Fingers crossed for dry weather as we await delivery of our SIPS panels in a few weeks ...
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