I went to this tea party thing at this guy Alistair’s house today. It was a weird experience. His house is amazing, it’s this huge old place right in the middle of nowhere AND they had an extension built onto it, just because huge wasn’t quite big enough for them. It took ages to get to because the closest we could get on the bus was this village about half an hour away. Considering how hot it is here right now that walk was not exactly fun.
When we got there Alistair had got all this stuff ready, cakes and sandwiches and pink lemonade and stuff. After he had told us all to be very sure not to break any of his china he took us up to this old field his family own. It was one of those fields that people own for the sake of owning and don’t really look after. The grass was really long, the kind that if you ran out into the field and lay down no one would be able to see you. I love fields like this because they just inspire imagination. At the top of the field there was this old union jack on a bent flagpole, which Alistair told us was from world war 2 and that the holes in it where real bullet holes from the boat it had been on. Just along from the flag there was an area where the grass had been flattened down and we all sat there and ate. Looking around there was actually a really incredible view of all the hills and the field leading back down to his house.
It was so relaxing there, in the sun just sitting and talking about anything. Sadly, due to certain people that were there you couldn’t escape from annoyances completely but it was pretty close. Closer than I’ve been in a while, anyway.
When we had been outside for a couple of hours we went back down to the house because a few people wanted to watch Slumdog Millionaire. We had a bit of a nose round the house, as you have to in places this big and found this old sword. One thing I did realise today was the alarming amount of weapons in that house, Alistair has an axe and a crossbow under his bed. Anyway, stupidly, he let Jasmine has the sword so she was swinging it around for a while. Lol, he said “Yeah, well, it isn’t that dangerous. Although you could kill someone with it.”

Track: Good Day - The Dresden Dolls