Alan Lamb

Alan Lamb was an England Cricketer who played for Northamptonshire.  He provides the title for this days blog as he is a neat segway.

Ten hours kip does one the world of good aided and abetted by Al Cahol….Bombay Sapphire always a good duty free option.  We met the new world head on just after 10 am.  Traditional British Sunday planned and shopping to be done to add to the previous days haul. 

Samantha sent Alexa in to wake Kim and me and was slightly startled by my C-PAP machine.  I suffer from sleep apnoea so spend the night time hours as Darth Vadar.  Once re-established in my earthly guise we washed, dressed and drove into Long Buckby. 

 

Long Buckby is the village where the royal train stops when Wills and Harry are visiting their Uncle at Althorp.  It’s nice for us to be back in the area we lived for 6 years and just two miles from Little Brington our home for 24 months.  There is a smell to the countryside particularly in the Autumn and an damp earthiness that suggests coal and wood fires are just around the corner.

 

Good piece of Lamb means find local butcher and supplier.  We did.  Two nice shoulder cuts and two stuffed breasts.  Add onion sauce and all the Sunday roast trimmings and we would soon be in business.  Kim and Samantha, Alexa and I, all filling shopping baskets with goodies in the Village, bit hard on the pocket but so long since we had been together.   So it was then home and the arrival of Marcus, on his motorcycle 

 

and then Samantha’s fiancé Alan and his three children, Owen, Lara, and Thea.  Alan is a really nice guy and the children were a delight,very easy to manage, pretty sociable and independent from the outset. 

 

Alexa rushed out excitedly to give the kids Maple Syrup Suckers (Lollies).  A bit of grand-parenting good for the soul I reckon.

We took the kids out to the play area and then this old man tried a bit of football, not too shabby if I say so myself.  The kids then went to check on the chickens; say hi to the sheep and hello to the cows.  No fear of farm animals in any of them just curiosity and that is a two way street on a busy farm.

 

Meanwhile the Lamb and potatoes roasted and all the trimmings arrived on time and we sat 8 for lunch.

 

Included in the meal were lovely butter iced cakes specially selected by Samantha for dessert and a batch of cake eating kids with bottomless pits for stomachs.

We spent the afternoon getting to know Alan in between entertaining the kids and washing up.  Samantha stayed overnight again and Reece was also here stopping over. 

 

We got to bed slightly earlier than the previous night a fine day under our belts.