Gracie’s Life Experiment

It was the “Ex versus Current” archery club shoot today.  The weather forecast was quite pleasant – sunny intervals, around 20deg.  Hmm in reality it really was sunny intervals – but more like overcast and windy with about 2mins of sunny intervals every 1/2 hr.  The shoot took around 5+ hours and I was Lady Paramount for the day (what with being 7 months pregnant and far too off balance I couldn’t really shoot) so spent the time blowing whistles, judging and helping to find arrows.  It was so cold I had my jacket on as well as hubby’s waterproof jacket as well as my hat on.  I must have looked like a really strange looking tourist, already extremely rotund from the baby, but even more padded from the 4 layers of clothes and then a sun hat on top!  We had found a more sheltered spot after the shoot and had a BBQ.  Then the sun was out and it was lovely.  Unfortunately I was totally knackered, and my cheeks were very sore – something like sunburn AND windburn at the same time.  I had to go have a lie down in the car for while to recover.  Then we retreated back to our house for a mini-Eurovision party.

Summary of the day: Spent most of it standing in the middle of 5 sports pitches at the mercy of the weather!!