tRAIN Spoils Play.

It has poured with rain ALL day. Most of the household went into Barnstaple this morning on various shopping trips while I stayed home. I washed dishes, baked a cake, washed dishes, made some fruit bread in the breadmaker, washed dishes, spent 1 1/2 hrs topping blackcurrants for a crumble and washed more dishes. Having only had just enough forks at the table last night I asked Vytas to buy some more when he was in town only to find the pot with all my extra cutlery in another cupboard (I thought I had given them to the charity shop).

There is currently much texting back and forth as the 2 last visitors attempt to get here by train. Linas and Rachel are starting from different parts of the country but the plan was to meet up when they change trains at Exeter and travel on the last Tarka Line train of the day to Barnstaple. Unfortunately Rachel's train is running late and the latest estimate is that she will arrive 4 minutes after the Barnstaple train is due to depart. Being 2 different train companies even when one train is delayed the Barnstaple train goes leaving you to wait another hour (or in this case overnight). Linas is already at Exeter and we are all relying on his powers of persuasion to hold the train for Rachel otherwise he'll wait for her and Kate E (Rachel's mum) will have to drive the 50 miles from here to collect them. Once they finally arrive it will be a full house with 11 of us here.

Latest update, the delay has now stretched to 10 mins, the train won't wait so Kate E and Alex are setting off now to pick them up. That's a bummer.