Painting by Numbers…

It’s 10.30 am on another gorgeous day in Paradise.

As I type this 2 of our guests are still sleeping in their tent and 2 have left us for the day to explore the area.

The sun is burning my foot  – the only bit of my body it can reach as I’m propped up at the bar in the basement’s shaded cool…

I can’t post pictures of the past weeks as in the time it’ll take to upload via our crappy dongle, the laptop battery will have run out so here’s a snapshot of what the season’s been like so far… (for “season” read from Mid May to current date)

• Total number of visitors to the campsite so far - 65

• Numbers of those contributing to our survival – 38

• Out of the 48 days of the season so far, 32 have seen us hosting guests, 25 of those days we’ve had volunteers on site and only 7 of those days has the campsite been completely empty…

• Most people here on one night (for Nik’s kinda surprise birthday party) – 28

• Number of different nationalities of visitors so far – 10

• Number of visitors under 4 years old – 8

• People who enquired but didn’t turn up – 5

• Numbers who didn’t book but just turned up – 5

• Numbers of Gypsy Moth caterpillars again this year – depressingly 1,000’s & many trees stripped of their leaves

• Numbers of actual Gypsy Moths – errrr, not so many… lots of caterpillar destruction went on this year we have to confess!

• Numbers of crickets so far this year – errrr, not so many… Daisy has developed a taste for them I’m afraid to say!

  
  

• Numbers of new creatures identified that fly, jump, hop, crawl, run and slither – we’ve lost count, probably 30-40+

• Numbers of Full Monte clay objects successfully fired in the bespoke, handmade kiln – 20

• Numbers of different food items eaten from the campsite & organic garden – 43 (18 herbs, 4 edible flowers, 5 wild foodstuffs & 16 home-grown fruit & veg)

• Flowers… blooming 100’s!!!

June in Review is already hideously late and may not make it to the blog much before mid July!  It might just be worth reading when it finally does get posted…