Ady’s been off with Johnny today mostly lifting stuff I think. They seem to be firing each other up with testosterone filled manliness, working harder every day. They are both enjoying it, if they do seem to have collectively aged 10 years in the week we’ve been here! Davies and Scarlett spent an hour or …
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Sunday with added fleas
I really struggled to get up this morning and while we were feeding the animals and sorting out water etc. Jill appeared to say we could have the day off. Wish she’d said last night 😉 Jill had mentioned earlier in the week about a big Flea Market at the Bath & West showground nearby …
Being Rubbish At Blogging
Not sure why. Thursday was a hard working day for Ady (who will find things to do even when no one is expecting him to). In the morning we headed over to Paddington Farm and caught up with Tanya and Michael there. I’m always rather flattered when people remember us from just being here a …
2011 a roundup
January was quite an up and down month. We saw 2011 in with Marcus and Michelle, with a visit from The Barts on New Years Day I turned 37 There was a real feeling of biding time on one hand while time was fast running out on the other. February Early February was packing up …
Bring on the workboots
Alarm call was a slight shock to the system this morning, but soon recovered from with a glance out the window at a beautiful sunny January morning with the Tor backlit by the sunrise and new adventures to be chased :). It’s only in driving away from Sussex yesterday and waking up this morning with …
X Factor Stylee
We’re through to the next round!!!!!!!! I don’t think I realised how important to us this was until we actually got the email to say so. We’ve spent so much time ensuring we had secure plans B, C and even D that we had almost let go of Plan A to make sure we would …
I’m up to March
and ooh didn’t we have a fab year 🙂 Bit of a non day today, mostly packing up and trying to tidy a bit as I’m conscious we may end up with limited time to actually pack all our stuff up and get it moved in the end. I got everyone up before 9am as …
Aging on the rollercoaster
I’m sorry Joyce, I hope the skiing trip makes up for the lack of blogging 😉 What a bloody rollercoaster this year has been so far. It all feels like a total limbo, we don’t know what’s happening with Rum, or whether actually we’ll end up on Eigg or even on Skye. We don’t know …
You gotta have friends
Days are all blurred into each other, January can be that way anyway I think. This year more so. I’m hoping for some perspective on it all once we’ve got some distance out the other side. At the moment I am very aware of the slightly tarnished element of enjoying spending time at various friends …
Well I can’t leave it there!
2011 was toasted out with Rum, Jools Holland, love, laughter and a firm remembering that actually we end what has been an amazing year for us while moving into what promises to be another one. I’m up to March in my round up of 2011 which is of course when it all got really interesting …
Mulitple Choice
Where were we? Ah yes, all gone to bed on Friday night after pleasant evenings all round happy and cheery and lovely. So Saturday morning dawned and while I was in the bedroom packing last minute stuff for our few nights away the kids were upstairs doing the same. Scarlett came in and I asked …
The dregs of 2011
*Everyone* in the house slept in this morning. I suspect Dad has got the cold we brought home from camp although he’s pretending he doesn’t. We gathered up all dirty washing and headed off to the laundrette where we managed to park quite close and bunged it in washing machines (two smaller ones, the big …
Practically WWOOFers!
Dad had asked for some help cutting up firewood this week and we’d been rained off yesterday but decided to do it this morning. My parents have had an open fire since we moved to this house 35 years ago but a couple of years ago they decided to have a wood burner installed. I’ve …
Old friends and screens
I’ve not seen Davies without something with a screen attached to him today aside from an hour when we went out. Either the 3DS or my laptop, Ady’s tablet or a phone. I suspect it is a sign of impending Growing Up or something 😉 We walked into the nearest village today to post the …
Winter Walk
We’d arranged to meet up with The Other Goddards today for a walk in Arundel. We’ve done it for the past few years at some point over Christmas (last year was Christmas Eve). It is so unseasonably warm (I’m not even saying mild now, it’s actually warm, we’ve seen bees and butterflies in the last …
Boxing Day
Get me with my imaginative titles 😉 We’d been invited to a Boxing Day shoot this morning but it was always highly unlikely we’d get up in time to attend and sure enough none of us were up much before about 10am. We headed off on a walk, taking Tarly’s new camera to test it …
Christmas 2011
I’ve concluded today that I can be just as irrational as my parents regarding Christmas. Which doesn’t excuse them but doesn’t make me look great either… Davies and Scarlett woke before 5am and arrived in our bedroom with stockings. They sat on our bed and opened them and were suitably pleased with everything. It was …
Christmas Eve
Up with the alarm this morning after far too late a night and then off to Pets@Home soon after they opened at 8am. The very lovely and friendly assistant (who I suspect may well have been hitting on me, she was very touchy feely and asked with rather too much meaning if I liked her …
Eve of the eve of Christmas Eve, and Christmas Eve Eve
Or ‘The one where Nic and Ady break more of their friends’. Yesterday morning we took in a couple of parcels, the remaining ones have also now arrived so with the exception of collecting the hamster in the morning all shopping is done. I’m really pleased with the stuff we’ve got the kids this year, …
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Like a Bond baddie or a Spice Girl
I got up earlyish again this morning despite not being due at the dentist until 11.15am. I fear the kids and I have drifted too far back into late nights and late mornings and quite aside from the fact I know my parents are observing this slatternly behaviour and judging us I don’t think it’s …