Relaxing on St David's Day

The rain carried on all night at Fron Dirion, battering on the skylight with great gusts of wind.  There seemed to be no let-up and the weather report had forecast more rain for today.  Yuck!

After their busy days out doing lots of lovely things and getting plenty of fresh air and exercise, Mum and Dad felt that today was a great day to stay in alllll day.  Hurrah for Onesie Days!

Even though the rain did clear off, they jolly well stayed in anyway.  Apart from when, you know...Mum took more pictures of the hills *sigh*

But it did all look so different again.  Hills in the clouds and woah...that waterfall got a bit big!

Cloud-topped hills.

Wow, that waterfall!  It seemed to have expanded considerably overnight!  Let's check that....

Yes, it definitely had.  Just from one night of rain.  Coooo!

Valley 2 did not escape the cloud either.

As it was a stay in, not-getting-dressed, relaxing and slobbing around kind of day, Mum and Dad ate rubbish food from the mystery box for breakfast.  Then Dad suggested they got stuck into some of the mystery pile items.  Mum was well up for that!

First to be opened was the 'Classic' mystery item which turned out to be two packs of nice playing cards and a copy of 'Card Games for Dummies'.  They learned how to play Spite and Malice and thought it was a great game.

Spite and Malice, two things that neither Mum nor Dad are very good at...but the game was fun!

Next Dad opened the mystery item called 'Wordery' which turned out to be Qwordie.  It was easy to learn and it involved collecting letter tiles and trying to use them to answer the quiz questions.  Mum thought it was great.  Mum thinks Dad didn't.

Wordy Qwordie.

After a lunch of bacon and eggs, the fire was lit and things were cosy until it went out.  Mum just doesn't understand woodburning stoves.

The fun continued and Dad opened the mystery item called 'Geekery' which turned out to be Descent: Journeys in the Dark (Seond Edition).  Mum thought this was the kind of game that Dad would enjoy.  The rule book was very long and it took a whole era to set it up and try to learn the basics.  But, somehow, they muddled through and completed a quest.

Mum played the evil Overlord and controlled her minions 'Mauler' the Ettin and a monster group of Goblin Archers.  Dad played heroes Syndrael and Avric Albright.  If the Overlord managed to get five goblins across the dungeon and out to safety, she would be the victor.  But if the Heroes managed to kill Mauler the Ettin, they would win.

And, the Heroes won!  Possibly helped along by the fact that the Overlord forgot that she was meant to be keeping poor Mauler alive and was using him like a beatstick to attack the Heroes.  Oopsie!

The Overlord's minions watch on as Syndrael takes her first steps into the dungeon.

After the game was cleared away, Dad popped upstairs for a shower and Mum put some dinner in the oven.  When it was almost ready, Dad came down and quickly knocked up a batch of fried onions.  Yum!

Garlic bread, racks of ribs in barbeque sauce, fried onions and salad.  Finger lickin' good!

After dinner, Mum produced the silly hats.  It was St David's Day after all.  Dad was probably hoping that Mum had forgotten about the silly hats, but he humoured her and had his picture taken.

Poor Dad.

Mum and Dad spent the evening packing up their things and watching Crazy, Stupid Love from the mystery item pile, then headed up the stairs to bed one last time.