Confined to barracks

Poor bunny. She doesn’t like being home – she gets locked in her cage for long periods.

To continue my holiday saga, on the 20th we did plan to do something but got waylaid and ended up doing sod all. I read my book pretty much all day. In the evening I went to my cousin’s house, had pie and chips, watched Round the World in 80 Days, and chatted about rabbits (rabbited…). She has a 7 year old cream Netherland Dwarf boy who only recently became a house rabbit. He’s tiny compared to the beast! She’s probably 3 times his size and weight… she is a large breed I hasten to add.

On the 21st we were going home but actually managed to fit a lot in in the morning. We first went to a garden centre and browsed – I decided I want a Bonsai tree. After seeing my cousin’s fiance’s tree the evening before I think I want to try keeping these tricky little shrubberies again. Gonna do my research though… *googles*

After the garden center we went to Pevensey Castle. A fun history, Pevensey Castle was a Roman fort initially, and then when the Roman’s left the Britons used it for trading. Some Saxons came along at one point and slaughtered them all. Then William the Conquerer used the fort walls (for the castle was not built at that time) to camp his army in when he landed on England, prior to the Battle of Hastings. He then built Pevensey Castle within the walls. Years passed (as they are wont to do) and in WWII the walls and castle had pillboxes installed to protect the coast against a German landing. Now that’s a military history. It reminded me a lot of Bernard Cornwell’s Grail Quest – or rather Heretic, since that’s the only one I’ve read so far.

Pevensey Castle and Roman Fort walls

Then we drove to the beach near where my cousin’s live as my Mum wanted to see the sea before we left.

Nan, Mum and the beach

After that we went to my cousins’ house for a cuppa before heading home. My cousin had just finish a 7 hour shift as a nursing auxillary and so was rather sleepy, but still managed to make half a cup of tea 😉

Got home, and tried to install our new wireless router, but as usual had lost various passwords! So it had to wait until this morning to be finished when we could contact support etc.

And yes, I’d taken my lappy with me and written the last two entries on that as I went 🙂 This blog engine let’s me post date entries! Very handy!

Dismal day today – it’s been raining non-stop for about 8 hours now. Most off putting!