At home cleaning and tidying

A day at home today with very changeable weather. Sara and Mary spent the morning packing to go to Brownie Camp and they also made a "cactus cake" to take with them - a Madeira cake with green icing in the shape of a cactus. Vince arrived very early with his digger to lay paving stones at the entrance to the drive to stop the lip damaging the cars. I read the newspaper this morning and did some tidying up. This afternoon, I tackled the bank with the lawn mower but could only get so far round as Peter was finishing off the fence and his van was in the way. Mary was picked up this afternoon to go to Brownie Camp (Sara went on ahead) by her friend Sasha's father. Unfortunately, he drove into the drive dislodging Vince's work which he had to do again. Several paving stones were dislodged and some fresh mortar had to be set down. The entrance now has a rope across it and my car is parked in the lay-by. Tom and I had a Chinese takeaway for dinner and I watched the Manchester City v. Liverpool game on Sky. This resulted in a 3-0 defeat for a poor Liverpool. They ended the match one position above the relegation zone. They have had a very similar poor start to Southampton. I ended the day watching a documentary on Captain Cook.