On Monday, we went to see Mummy’s friend Kate, her husband Kirk, and their children Freyja (nearly thirteen), Florence (nearly ten), Stanley (four), and Ethel, who is the cutest around three-month-old baby ever! She is SO adorable, and so is Stan! He spent the first half of us coming showing us around the house and saying things like, “This is a bath. This is what you do with a bath. This is a toilet. This is what you do with a toilet. This is a bed. This is what you do with a bed. This is—” and so continuing!
They have three dogs: two black labradoodles called Roxy and Ronnie, both female, and one male called Eric. I’m not sure what breed Eric is, but he looked something like a bulldog, bullmastiff, and a boxer, and he was white! Personally I wasn’t actually a big fan of Eric; I wasn’t scared of him, he was just a bit slobbery! I liked Ronnie best though, because she just let you pet her and then went and slept in the sun 😉
We played Hide ‘n’ Seek quite a lot, because their house is so HUGE! There were loads of hiding places, and sometimes I went in the most obvious ones ever and it took ages for the seeker to find me! One example was when I realised that I only had ten seconds left and that I desperately needed to find somewhere to hide, so I hurried into Stan’s bedroom and buried myself under some inflatable doughnuts and plush strawberries. William wandered into the room in an attempt to hide quickly too, and when I whispered, “Can you see any of me?” and he said, “Yes, lots,” I had a feeling I was going to get caught easily. But then Flo, who by then had finished counting, found William still trying to find a hiding place, and found everyone before she came across me—in fact, she stood right next to my hand several times, moaning quite understandably, “I can’t fi-i-i-nd her!” But eventually she did.
We were sad to have to go home, but we were filled up with a delicious hot dog and lots of orange juice, so we weren’t actually hungry when we got there!