T-Bird Anni Rides Again

I’ve been saying I’d take Aprilia to Stockley farm for weeks but something has always happened on the Wednesday to stop us and that’s the only week day it’s open.  But today the sun was shiney, we had cash (Duke got paid partly in cash just to be sure he had something to keep us going until the latest cheque decides if it wants to be all bouncy or not) and no prior commitements so I told her that if she did her chores and her normals then we would go. 

So she worked hard on normals, sat perfectly still for stories, asking inteligent questions here and there and read several pages of desperately boring CVC word based "story" (we still haven’t quite mastered long vowels but I hve plenty of CVC booklets to wade through whilst we wait!)  After that she  put away all her clean washing and gave me a pile of stuff for the charity shop that she has outgrown.  Then she "helped" me plant out the runner beans round the bean frame and gave teh sunflowers a decent burial in the compost bin as the wind had battered them just a bit too hard and snapped every last one of them off below the first set of leaves   We’ve still got Teddy Bear sunflowers though so I’m hoping they will be sturdy enough.  We’ve also got last year’s packet of Giant sunflowers somewhere so I can still have another go.

That brought luchtime very rapidly then we headed off to hte farm.  The next 3 hours were spend coo-ing over fluffy little lambs and calves, digging in the sandpit and playing in the play barn.  She fed a lamb and helped the farm hands feed the pigs which was a bit of a bonus as we just happened to be walking past the pen at feeding time so were invited to come and help.  All in all a very pleasant way to spend the afternoon.

When we got home I had a slightly surreal conversation on the phone with Dad who was asking if I’d managed to fix the SatNav.  Last time they borrowed it they said it stopped talking to them which was rather odd as it talked to me all the way too and from Jax and Tim’s at the weekend perfectly happily.  On further questioning he said that it wasn’t that it wasn’t saying anything at all, just that all it kept saying was "Turn around when possible" so they carried on as it was still showing the road they were on so it must have been the right route.  Now, is it me or if your navigation tool told you to turn around would you keep going regardless or actually turn round?????  Sigh, I suppose it’s all those years of arguing over maps, must hve done some permenant damage to the part of the brain that responds to verbal directions