Grey Wednesday

The day was grey and dull and when I woke up after a lay in and the weather forecast is for rain again. Since the the summer is like last years I just hope that we have the same kind of autumn and the weather turns out fine and warm.

Everyone got up late this morning and after chat in the living room the girls went off to the family room to play and go on the computers. The house seemed to be unusually quiet other than the occasional bark from george when he saw a cat in the garden.

For lunch we had some giant hot dogs that were on special offer in Morrisons in Stamford with fried onions and for the girls tomato ketchup. Given they are not the hot dog sausages we normally have or as expensive there were still very nice.  

In the afternoon the rain that the weather forecasters had promised set in.  It wasn't what we wanted. Emily and Catherine were itching to get out again today and have some fun. What made it worse for Emily was even her friends had gone somewhere and their was nobody for her to go round and play with. At least the famous summer holiday cries of "We're bored" were far and few between as they played on the computers and watched programmes on the BBC iplayer.

Before dinner could be made we had to pop to the supermarket. As a treat we got some jam donuts for pudding that went down rather well with Emily and Catherine. They love donuts as i did when I was a child. I use to buy bags of hot freshly made donuts covered in sugar. They were rather yummy.

After I suggested a game of Monopoly after dinner, it was quickly pointed out Lucy had hidden all the cash cards for the machine bank. That will give us something to look for in the morning if the rain is still coming down. At least some of the other games as still intact including Emily's Cluedo. If only we could get Catherine interested in fantasy games there is loads we could do on a rainy day.

Although it has been a rather dull day compared to what we do in the sunny weather it has been nice to be a home and just chill for the day.