Every so often we meet up with the offspring, and today was one of those 'every so often' days. Today was at Cowdray farm shop cafe. We meet in the morning for breakfast when we can be sure that the venue won't be busy. They have breakfast - waffles, maple syrup and bacon, and we have a second breakfast, as we are earlier risers. The waffles and bacon and maple syrup for himself, and avocado on toast for me.
It is wonderful to be able to talk face to face, catch up on news, and just enjoy each other's company for a few hours. The wasps came and joined us (maple syrup!) but asking them nicely to go away, as I read somewhere recently, really seemed to work for a while; a calm 'please go away and leave us in peace' did the trick for while. Why? We fell to discussing how they could tell - frequency? vibrations in the air?
I said it worked for a while; eventually the maple syrup overcame their natural politeness. We trapped the first persistent offender under a miniature milk jug, whereupon it spent the rest of the time trying (and failing) to escape via the pouring lip. The second offender we trapped under a drinking glass and our problems were over. We did release them, unharmed, as we went.
It was the day of the Pony Club Championships. Being Cowdray Park it wasn't a gymkhana but a huge gathering of junior polo teams; groups of children on highly disciplined ponies and small horses trotting and catering here there and everywhere to and from the two polo pitches. All very impressive, and very interesting to watch.
I'm keeping up with the Pen and Ink drawing course. After days and days of drills,
we have now reached real drawings for a few pages. The exercise is to examine the drawing carefully and note the different kinds of hatching used. I have chosen to copy the drawing a couple of times and make notes. The originals are on the left.
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