Easter brief recap

I still don't trust this happiness, I'm still treating it with a wary caution, but maybe, just maybe, I'm starting to consider it may be true. I've exorcised my doubts, and more will come but I will handle that, and...optimistic. We got together Monday night, after resisting more than friendly embraces the entire day, ducking gazes that lingered too long, but I've written about that already. Tuesday we met up with Spetch, walked into Lostwithiel. Hamish slipped under the gate somehow and followed, and i had to use a piece of twine wrapped around a fence post as a lead. Loving the fact that when that dog snapped at him he snapped right back, being under half it's size! Down to the river, past the moored boats, past the playing fields, through the wild apple trees out onto the floodplain, then through a natural tunnel made by flowering blackthorn, as though snow had settled on their twisted branches. Then the land ended where a small waterway joined the river Fowey as a wide expanse of mud. Somehow the boys decided that the gravel patch nearer thewater was firm ground and resolved to get to it.Much tramping around and nearly falling over in the mud then trudging upriver to try and cross there then giving up and starting again later, they decided that laying down branches to walk across would provide them with enough supportto get to the other side. So a branch was pulled out of the mud and laid down. then another. Then they ran out and had to go and search for wood. Cash came back carrying a sizeable branch. Spetch came back carrying half a felled tree! They were halfway across their new bridge when it was time to go, so we never found out how functional it would have been. Spetch seemed...quiet. Not sure why. He was chatty enough when we were walking, but...yeah, when we got back to mine he had slipped into a kind of abruptness. That evening we went out under the stars again, sat in the hidden garden and talked. He instigated, and must have spoken for about an hour and a half - there was something in him that needed to unload, so I sat silent and let him. He confessed his lie to me, nervously but he did it, and I'm proud of him for doing so. He needed to know that I was okay with it, he needs to realise there's very little he could do that would drive me away. He needs to know that being honest will be appreciated and not get him in trouble. He'll feel better about himself that way. Wednesday met up with Rebekah, pasty count = 2, both Cash and Rebekah took the piss out of my incompetance when it comes to shopping. Euganie kicked him in the balls, but otherwise seemed quite amused by him and his stubble. Went out to Sam's restaurant that evening, he was delighted with the place and spent most of the evening discussing various musicians with my parents. We went to the Talbot afterwards, and there seemed some tension in the air but that soon disipated, especially once Ben and Miguel were free from their previous conversations and engaged Cash in tales of Medsoc - both got really interested and Miguel threatened to come round so Cash could show him how to use the bow (he did, on Saturday). Went back to Laura and Alex's afterwards, and ended up walking home at about midnight. He's said he wasn't a fan of the night, which became apparent. Just used to greater light levels, and wasn't familier with the terrain, and I resolved to carry a torch on me more often. I prefer walking at night without a torch, it seems to me just a great way to advertise your position and your discomfort with the dark, and you lose the sensations you get at night if you use artificial light, but no matter.He needs the light more than I need the dark. Thursday, dental appointment in Padstow, stayed afterwards and had pasty no.3+4. Just spent about an hour and a half wandering around the town, getting ice-cream and harmonica and looking at all the bric-a-brac shops, then walked to Wadebridge, which took two hours and earned a fair few blisters. The walk was beautiful though, the way decorated with spring flowers and we stopped for a bit to stare down some baby rabbits. Ended up having coffe then checking out the Kernow harvest shop - note - Gordan Bennett. Laura phoned asking if we wanted to go out that evening so we went bowling - the boys were pleased because they beat us, Laura was just pleased she beat SOMEONE once. :D Scary amount of food later at pizza hut, and arranged to go surfing the next day. tbc...