The plan for today was to make plans. Having had the email from Rum yesterday to say ‘yes come’ we swung into action making that all happen. Having gone for 25th as Static Delivery Day we worked backwards to ensure we arrive before the static does. That left Monday 23rd – too close to Wednesday …
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Keep the change
I had underestimated the time it would take to get sorted this morning so my plan to bake bread didn’t happen but I did manage to pack lunch for everyone and chivvy people into getting ready to leave the house. We were meeting Julie and co at Slindon, scene of many a woodland walk over …
Gardens and talking crockery
Today we had plans to catch up with two friends, only a mile or so apart over in Barnham (where Chris and Julie live). On the way we had to pay some money into the bank and get some petrol. Although we left with plenty of time the queue at the petrol station was huge …
slabs, not of cake
This morning was Operation Pretend We Don’t Live Here with the first 90 minutes of the day spent putting everything in cupboards so the house looked properly empty. Some of us have a methodical approach to such tasks, taking time to ensure that even the putting in cupboards has an element of logic to it, …
Goddards, Puppies, Vehicles and Cheap Cider
What more could you possibly want on a Saturday? 🙂 We are trying to be very sensible with our petrol consumption and combining journeys wherever possible. So yesterday was ‘stuff over Chichester way’. This started with a long overdue visit to Julie – we’ve not seen them since February as they have been poorly ever …
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Tim’ll fix it
Hurrah for Mr Marchant. Late night saviour of blogs 🙂
Fitting. Carpets, not epilepsy
Hate having the TV in the room where I sleep, especially if it gets turned on to a Simpsons video before I am awake. I end with Bart and Lisa guest starring in my dreams which is never good. I spent some time going through all my clothes and putting two thirds of the stuff …
Lost In Music
This morning Ady removed the kitchen floor – that’s the layer of laminate that my Dad put down just after we had Davies, the layer of carpet tiles that replaced a layer of lino we put down prior to that and a bit of the layer of crap underneath that we had a go at …
Ecobuild 2012
Oh I’m knackered. And hormonal. We first went to Ecobuild back in 2008 when it was at Earl’s Court and was a fairly small affair, very much inventors and small scale sellers, there was a food stall from River Cottage, ‘talent scouts’ in evidence for Dragons Den and Grand Designs and just a smattering of …
Diary filling up
This morning we had planned to dismantle the chicken shed (we’re hoping it comes apart easily and we can fit it in the horse box to come with us) but in response to my ‘what can we bring?’ text Tasha replied with ‘bread’ so as I’d planned to make some today anyway I brought that …
My I don’t have to run day
I had one of those ‘oh shit’ last waking thoughts last night as I snuggled down in my sleeping bag that the faulty kindle was being collected today and I hadn’t sellotaped the return label to the box. So I set a reminder on my phone which was what woke me this morning. Ady was …
Celebrating
Yesterday we had planned to clear out the garage but it was grey and drizzly and just didn’t feel like the sort of day to be out of the house really. The kids worked through the piles of stuff up in the loft space in Davies’ old room while Ady and I ticked another thing …
One week later
Can’t believe we’ve only been back a week. At times, walking around this house again I can’t believe we ever went away really. Then I notice the lack of sofa, bed etc and it all comes back to me! This is a far better place to be than the month or so we spent at …
UU
Stuff today that has been grrr-y: Insurance for the Pajero, not as cheap as I’d hoped. In the scheme of things this doesn’t matter at all as once we’re on Rum we don’t need insurance anyway, but I was hoping to just swap over to a different vehicle on my Sharan insurance and then have …
Maximum Output
Starting to feel a bit like a generator today… Scarlett woke me at 4am by shaking me as she’d had a bad dream. Something to do with monsters in a forest chasing her and when she’d woken the shadows in the hall had looked like the monsters so she’d panicked and needed me to wake …
More boxes, oh and cakestands
This morning we went to the local car auction – after Popmaster of course 🙂 Dad came along with us and it was very interesting, in a new experience with added people watching point of view. Nothing in our price bracket or right for us – all the vans had only 3 seats and the …
Bacon
I have been heard to state that there is not much that can’t be improved by bacon. So today we had Bacon & Co estate agents round to see if finding someone to live in our house could be improved by Bacon 🙂 It looks like it might actually. They do sales and lettings and …
Hurrah, we found the Carpenters CD
In all those miles we’ve done lately we only had about 10 cds, at least four of which were Horrible Histories ones from cereal packets. One was disc two of War of the Worlds, which Scarlett used to listen to but now says is too scary. That leaves us with Deacon Blue, Alanis Morrisette (scratched, …
But will you need it in a static?
Everyone else was awake and noisy long before I was in the mood for such behaviour this morning. I was particularly irked to realise that having put a Shrek dvd on (do you have any idea how much Gingie’s voice grates when it invades post waking slumber? It’s like fingernails down a sodding blackboard!) everyone …
Two hairs past a freckle
A quick blog. Much of the day spent in the car really anyway. We left Lynda and Stuart in time for Popmaster in the car – what a great motivator that was to get out in time. Lynda left us with yet more positive words ringing in our ears 🙂 The drive back to Sussex …