I don’t know what it was about them, but at spare moments during the weekend, Bart had his head in a magazine or an old book, reading about the relationships between tyres and wheels. He and mum had just returned from two weeks in Majorca, and were down for the weekend, you see. Arriving on Saturday afternoon, they stayed through until Sunday, and even though it’s now Tuesday, I think we’re still suffering from a morning of baking and making on Saturday.
As with similar occasions and stays, it was an enjoyable two days, with a frantic start. While Nik made the insides of a vegetable lasagne, and an Eve’s Pudding (adding apricots to our homegrown apple), I blended, heated and stirred a roasted pepper and tomato soup. As usual, we didn’t trusted our recipes; the preparation time was much longer for everything we cooked. But, it was all enjoyable, and we have a few more dishes to now offer up when visitors dine at the house.
We had fun too, though. As Saturday afternoon soon became Saturday evening, we taught mum and Bart dominoes, as they’d never played for points before. We hadn’t for a while either, and while Bart looked for strategic and point-scoring lays, we just tried to grasp at the game’s basic concept once more. With Oscar curled up on the magazine mountain in the corner of the dining room, it was a cosy and enjoyable evening in. When he wasn’t asleep, the cat hopped from lap to lap, stopping at whoever he thought would give him the best tickle.
Sunday dawned cloudy and a little wet, but did brighten up enough for us to venture out to Hylands House, where we enjoyed hot drinks and cakes. Clearly enjoying the previous night’s activities (we also played cards), the dominoes had been asked for again, and packed in a coat pocket, were brought out again so that we could all get in some more practice. After an early lead, I was winning, until Bart found a strategy from somewhere, and leap-frogged his way to an easy 100-point score.
I wonder if, after all that reading, he’ll be equally as strategic in his next choice of tyres for his car?
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