It was a slow start to the day, as befits a late night . We grabbed some breakfast and the went into the shopping centre for a stroll around. We hadn't appreciated yesterday the fact that behind the shop fronts we saw yesterday lies a huge indoor shopping mall. This deserved exploring. So it was that we spent and hour or so browing through the various outlets. It was really quite impressive.
We hailed a taxi and made our way to cousin (as opposed to granddaughter) Ellie's house. She was holding a surprise family get together for the Silver Vixen's auntie Jean who was celebrating her birthday. Unfortunately chunks of the family couldn't make it, but we were very happy to represent our bit. We had a wonderful day. Ellie had prepared a feast that we enjoyed out on the deck then we sat around chatting for a while. The sun was out and it was really quite warm and pleasant, (Clarification here - yes we definitely are in Wales).
Mid afternoon we all took a stroll to the local park. Cousin Jon's partner Caroline had her boys with her and the park was a good place to let off steam. It also provided Ellie's Kevin the opportunity for some foraging for wood. Bit by bit a pile of dead branches, logs, twigs and small trees seemed to pile up. Other people in the park looked on with a degree of amazement - in fact the Gorse Fox looked on in amazement. Somehow this huge pile of wood was scooped up and ferried back to the house. It would be used in their new fire pit and some saved for their fire.
Back at the house there was a lot of faffing about as Jon, Kevin and the boys tried to ready the firepit for use... meanwhile Ellie rolled out the next feast. We tucked in to food that had been prepared and washed it down with tea or wine as the mood dictated.
Once finished the firepit faffing restarted... by the time we left it still was not alight. We called a taxi and headed back to the hotel
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