Who’s Normal Anyway?

We went to Church this morning, where I possibly upset the vicar when he said it was a back to normal standard C of E type service and I said (sort of joking), “Right, shall we just go home then?” He is a nice man though, I should be nicer back. M went out to Sunday School after the first hymn and it sounds as though they did something on topic and meaningful this week, which is better than them just chatting or running riot up and down the corridor - which is what it sometimes sounds like might be happening. L played on the floor pulling things out of my bag, then had a fight over a toy with the baby girl in the row behind, with both of then sitting under my legs and pushing the toy back and forth and protesting. I took him out to feed him in the end, not that I normally would, but he was trying to breastfeed during the Peace so everyone was getting up to shake hands while he was pulling my top up and latching on an off to breath through his mouth. I thought that was a bit much for most people to cope with and he was getting very distracted, so I took him for the toilet and then sat in the coffee room for a while til he settled down.

We came home for some paninis for lunch and then I made some bread dough before we went out again. Today was Gressenhall’s apple day. I hadn’t realised what a major event it is there, the car parking site was huge and the whole place was very busy. We looked around the apple tents and the craft/produce tent and I wished I’d taken a cheque book. We bought some more jam and pickles from Essence and tasted and then bought some local varieties of apple. There was a stall selling the most gorgeous woad-dyed things, including bamboo towels which were amazingly soft and I’d love to get some! We bought some woad seeds to try. There was a wooden toy stall there that I would have bought from if we’d had cash left. Oh, and I tried some organic chocolate truffles that were to die for!

We bumped into some friends and chatted for a couple of minutes and then we went off to the playground for a run around before it rained. We took it in turns swinging L on the swings while we forraged for sweet chestnuts at the edge of the playground. Once the rain started though we quickly went back to the car to come home.

This evening we’ve finished off the bread and made a roast chicken dinner. I showed M how to make “exploded apples” (cooking apples cored and filled with brown sugar and then cooked until they puff up out of the skins) and we also baked some bananas with chocolate drops because they were turning brown. L couldn’t get enough of the chicken or the apple and banana.