{"id":3457,"date":"2011-04-06T13:03:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T12:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/?p=3457"},"modified":"2012-05-29T21:45:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T20:45:25","slug":"mid-storm-its-day-4-and-wild-in-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2011\/04\/mid-storm-its-day-4-and-wild-in-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-storm it’s Day 4 and wild in the west."},"content":{"rendered":"

The weather men were right when they said it would be wild. Wild, wooly, windy and wet. So we are indoors. The lot of us. 8 adults. 7 kids. 3 dogs – plus one stray named Rocky who appeared as if from nowhere and carried rocks in his mouth hence his hastily given but highly appropriate new moniker. Rocky. It’s great being\u00a0 in looking out on this storm. It seems the animals were on to it before us. It is the wrong way round by this gives you an idea of how wild it is right now!<\/embed><\/p>\n

We woke yesterday to a stag in the garden, by late afternoon there were two and by early evening about 12. Hiding from the weather which was whipping round the hills, they found solace in the lee of a barn in the adjoining farm. As the weather worsens I will do a stag head count and see how many more appear. God when they hear we’re having venison for dinner tonight they may well take off fast.<\/p>\n

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Seafood cannelloni - yum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ah yes the food. Dinner last night started with seafood canelloni yes smoked fish in fresh pasta tubes topped with a little tomato sauce. Slurp. That was followed by roast lamb. \"\"<\/a>The MacDonalds lamb so it was grown, killed and eaten within a\u00a0a few miles \u00a0of it’s birth. It was divine. roasted, served with dauphinoise potatoes and lots of fresh veg. Nothing fancy. Perfect, tender, juicy. Poor Donnie the chef is now being followed by a steady stream of wide eyed wagging dogs trying to ingratiate themselves and now the children too. He has started holding a baking class for them – the kids not the dogs – in the afternoon. Yesterday they learnt how to make shortbread and chocolate cake. It just makes their parents love them more, knowing they can whip up a mouthwatering shortbread at the drop of\u00a0a scone sorry hat. I will impart the secrets of scones later as that is todays masterclass.<\/p>\n

It’s like the Big Brother House Day 4 – we are not able to get out, it is coming down like stair rods, each window\u00a0resembles \u00a0a fishmongers window with a constant stream of water drizzling down it. The fire is on, the board games are out, the place is so well sorted for this sort of day. It’s a joy sitting in and looking out as the elements throw everything at us, and yet we feel nothing but warmth and an increasing competitive urge to beat the men who are as usual annoyingly keen to win everything no matter what it is.<\/p>\n

Amongst all this\u00a0Teenwolf strides. Supposedly studying\u00a0for exams inbetween bouts\u00a0of lounging. He locked himself away\u00a0today –\u00a0after getting up at mid-day\u00a0he went off to work in\u00a0the long suffering husband and I’d room. I came in and found him and took a photo. The cheeky bugger nicked the photo and put it on his own site. www.teenwolfspeaks.com<\/a> \u00a0If no-one gets stabbed or sent home I shall report back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The weather men were right when they said it would be wild. Wild, wooly, windy and wet. So we are indoors. The lot of us….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,24,104,83,1161,77,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}