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MONDAY 29 JUNE – 11:05am
Pissing rain has stopped us doing anything for almost a week. None of us have been outside, other than when I ’ ve gone out to collect the rainwater. We ’ ve got plenty now. I filled the bath. Sally ’ s paddling pool is full outside too, and loads of pots and pans and buckets. It ’ ll last us ages.
It ’ s a beautiful day today though. It ’ s warm and dry, not a cloud overhead. We have a slow start, then sit around the breakfast table, eating thin porridge that Gabby cooked on the camping stove. She made it with water. It ’ s not the best, but it ’ s warm and it ’ s enough. I tell the kids it ’ s important to make sure we have at least one hot meal each day. Sally has a paddy and throws her spoon on the floor, but I know how to deal with this.
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