Rain and Rain

This is the first of four days and three nights that Lucy is staying in her home in Langham. Her mummy is off to a music festival, to get the rest she needs after being poorly. 

I picked Lucy up at ten o'clock from her mummies on a cold and wet summers day. Not the ideal day for doing very much but playing indoors. That is what we did most of the day. It wasn't helped by the fact I did have a coat for her other than a light summer waterproof mac. Not the thing to keep a little person warm. Thankfully I do have a hoodie for her, although if it warms up I will have to keep changing her tops, but never mind these things happen. 

There not really much to tell about the day until the afternoon. All we did was play and play. The only thing of note was when Lucy first saw George and commented that he had a hair cut. I thought she wouldn't know it was him but she did. I think she likes the new George with his soft hair. He is much more cuddly.

In the afternoon we went to Corby to ASDA to have a look around and get some food for the next few days. It's strange going to a large supermarket, they seem so big when you are use to the smaller supermarkets of Rutland, it's not like we need superstores with only 35,000 people in the whole county. The only thing we miss out on is the range you get in the bigger shops. On the way home we popped into the village of Lyddington, arguably the most beautiful village in the county, to have a look at Bede House from the outside.

Bede house is part of a medieval Bishops place owned by the Diocese of Lincoln. During those times Lyddington was an important religious centre and the house was the residence of the Bishop and his entire household. Later it was converted into a almshouse called the Jesus Hospital which housed twelve bedesmen and two poor women. It is in this state that house survives as a almshouse. It a very impressive thirteenth century building even from the outside and we will have to go back and look around inside one day.

While we there we did manage to pop into  St. Andrew's church. Lucy loves churches and was soon exploring and asking questions and having fun going up and down the stairs to the pulpit  A man in the church asked if we were wearing her out for bedtime. It is a lovely church and very old. There is even part of a wall painting remaining on one of the walls which gives you an idea of what it was like when the Bishops from the place went to the church all those years ago.

While we were out we had some dinner so when we got home there was loads of time for Lucy play before her bath and went to bed. I was really surprised how well she went down for the night. I was expecting some trouble getting her down since she didn't have her bedtime drinking bottle, but after a quick explanation and a cuddle she was fine and slept really well.