Long fall and lengthy hike

We’ve had a busy and tiring but very satisfying day…after GNC in which I did the talk on the effective use of time, using water as an illustration (through a sieve, into a potted plant, and into a mug), we popped on at Pam and Geoff where we stood around talking for a while instead of our usual making of coffee and plonking ourselves down on the sofas. I guess we just weren’t intending on staying for long so didn’t bother sitting! We came home for lunch, and then at 1 pm I took Nick, Skye and Jamie to the windmills at Flagstaff from whence they started their walk. This was to be a major walk which Nick has been planning for some time, but unfortunately he couldn’t muster up a bigger crowd. Geoff would have come but he pulled a hamstring. After dropping them I came back home to collect the boys to head over to Amy’s house, but they were at Alison’s house who had been cleaning Aaron up a bit after he fell from a tree. The fall was not a small fall from a low hanging branch, mind you – it was a rather major fall from the top of a tall tree, where he sort of bounced from branch to branch before thudding to the ground with a scream. Poor Alison had to contend with the heart-failure which the mother of the child usually has to endure, in my absence! Aaron was still a bit shaky and Caleb was also looking somewhat pale. We thank God for His protection and the guardian angels who surely must have caught him at the bottom to prevent any broken bones. He was still happy to continue with the afternoon’s plan, so we spent a fabulous afternoon at Bertrand’s Cottage with Amy and boys until going over to Ruperts to meet up with Pam, Geoff, Maddy and Elizabeth, and also to rendezvous with the hikers. They arrived half an hour later, tired but extremely pleased with themselves.