Day 45 - messing about in the river

Today started off with a casualty…. I managed to break yet another coat hanger (this was number three - thankfully first this trip!). Rather annoying but I know I was being a bit heavy handed with it….

We all went for a run this morning. There’s a river that runs through the local town and up into the woods and beyond, so we all headed out together. A couple of wrong turns thanks to me (who didn’t even have any form of navigation going 🤦‍♀️)…. Marla and me turned back after 2.5km and left Charlie to do more distance by himself. To be honest - we needed a bit of space, Marla was pretty confused as to why I was dog napping her and wasn’t that keen to run all the way back, so we had fun and did some splashing in the river along the way. Lots of downed trees to go around, under and over to keep us on our toes, but otherwise a lovely route.

Back to camp for some tasty post run treats for Marla - we still have some rabbit ears and chicken feet so she had a small feast.

We both showered off and did some hand washing of our sports clothes. There’s no washing machine here so we got out our little magic washing bag and did it the old fashioned way. The sun was shining and there’s a good breeze, so there’s was a good chance of everything drying quickly. We ended up with just a couple of damp socks left, so that’s pretty good!

Lunch was some tinned veggie hot dogs that I’d bought with us from the UK. We also rehydrated some of our onions and fried those up too, and put it all in some brioche rolls that we’d picked up a while ago. Overall - they were pretty tasty!

Marla refused to come inside while we ate our lunch, so once we’d finished we went back out and joined her outside.

After lunch had gone down, we went for a wander down the other end of the river until it ended in the town. Then headed back up again and did some more of the route we did this morning, but letting Marla jump in and out the river as much as she wanted to.

Dinner tonight was stuffed pasta in a tomato sauce - seems to be a van staple. We were going to have falafel and cous cous, but it seems what I thought was cous cous in our cupboard was actually a curry mugshot…. So that wasnt happening.

I did some crochet this evening, then realised I’d used the wrong sized hook so had to undo a load of work…. But it’s not like I don’t have the time to fix it properly.

We also caught up on the latest taskmaster - although it almost killed me. I took a big drink of squash at the wrong time and laughed while my mouth was full…. that was unpleasant and poor Marla didn’t know what was going on.

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