21st of June
Just came back from spending a day and a
half in Chichester with Rich and his mum. Yesterday Rich and I went straight to
work in the garden for approximately 5 hours. During that time, Rich cut down
the tall grass and thistles with a strimmer while I raked up the cuttings into
mounds (or what Rich calls strimples). By the end of the day, I had raked up 49
strimples and had received lovely sunburns on both of my shoulders. In the
evening Phil made us dinner and treated us to a cider for our hard work.
Today, I woke up from my solid sleep in the
cabin with a slight ache in my lower back. At the house Rich’s mum, Helen, made
us waffles with cooked cherries and pure Canadian maple syrup (which I have
been craving within the first month of setting foot in this country). On our
way back to Chichester, Rich lead us to our train back to Southampton, or so we
thought. After a good 20 or 30 minutes on the train there was an announcement that
the train was terminating early. Rich then went to figure out if we were on the
right train to begin with- the answer was no!
Luckily the train terminated early and we
were able to catch a train to St. Deny’s station after 20 minutes of waiting.
Taking a longer journey home, once at St. Deny's we trotted back home two blocks from the station
in the rain. It has been a fabulous past few days.
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