I thought I’d blogged yesterday already! It was Christmas Shopping Day. We left Davies and Scarlett with my Dad and Ady and I headed into town with a half hearted mental list of stuff to get. We parked outside of the parking zone which ended up being rather further than I’d realised to walk into …
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Returning to Sussex
It was always going to be hard to return to Mum & Dad’s after such a lovely time with friends. Friends who made us feel so very welcome, let us use their washing machine and tumble drier, fed us and generally enjoyed having us to stay. That Babs and Chris have been amazing to us …
Christmas Camp 2011
and twiddly bits either side 🙂 I think I got as far as Saturday :). Which had trips to supermarkets, into the city centre to drop Beth and Rachael off for their choir performance, an alleged early night for the kids which didn’t happen for all of them as Kirsty and James came over with …
Stew through the ages
Halloween Camp – Helmsley 2006 Christmas Camp 2009 – Truleigh Hill Christmas Camp 2010 – Okehampton Veggie chickpea tossing
Breaking Barbara
Yesterday we left Sussex with fairly heavy hearts and grim feelings. Still no more rent paid, stressy feelings from being at my parents, a grey and rainy and windy day and a row between Ady and I over some insignificant part of packing up the car. Fast forward a few hours and we’d had a …
Bring on the Merry Little Christmas now
The kids and I slept in this morning, I’d not meant to so I woke a bit wrong footed. We’ve been sleeping without a sheet on our bed the last couple of nights which is horrid (have mattress protector but it still feels all lumpy) so I decided to wash our sheet (we can find …
On the ninth birthday of Scarlett
Fortunately even an excited early morning start around here isn’t until after 8am 🙂 We’re so slack 😉 The morning began as all birthday mornings should with many presents opened in bed. Scarlett had only really asked for Playmobil this year so she had two new sets – a farm and a dolphin trainer, an …
Highs and Lows
Yesterday was a tough day 🙁 For my entire childhood all I really recall was my parents rowing. Their marriage has been a constant round of arguments, tensions, spite and venom. They range from petty squabbles to full on, veering towards violent screaming matches. Dad has a scar on his hand where Mum threw a …
Saturday with carols
True to my word this morning we had Christmas carols in the car AND we picked up advent calendars for the kids today too, chocolate ones unfortunately but they do have proper festive pictures on them. It’s Julie’s birthday today – 40! So we went over to look after Jack, Maisie and Lorna while Chris …
Hurricanes Hardly Happen
Yesterday after a leisurely chocolate croissant breakfast we all walked into town together. Marcus headed off to work and the rest of us did the many charity shops Hitchin has to offer (I think we counted 11!) and conducted an unsuccessful advent calendar hunt too. I didn’t particularly want chocolate ones and definitely not ones …
You gotta have friends
as sung by Donkey in Shrek 🙂 It’s kerazy o’clock, I’ve drunken more in the last six hours than possibly the last six months and frankly I should be sleeping. This morning we left Sussex, and my Mum who was on a real woe is me kick with lots of ‘well you just go off …
Rum de dum
This morning we walked into Broadwater, mostly just because we are all feeling the downside of less exercise and more food, along with feeling slightly out of touch with each other again after such a lovely long period of time together all the time. I think we’ve gotten so used to operating as a unit …
Efficient
First thing this morning I set my alarm and rang the doctors as soon as it opened to get an appointment. I managed to get one for 20 minutes time which meant I had to do a very quick dash out of the house without even a cup of tea, which was rather hard but …
Tied to the laptop
I finally went to bed around 4am, read for a while and was probably asleep by 5am. My face is much improved today though and I am hopeful that the 5 day steroid course might just see the Nicface outbreak off. I’m at the GPs in the morning anyway though so will make an appointment …
Face. Bothered
Woke up this morning with Nicface 🙁 It’s been brewing for a few days but this was full on face on fire, swollen eyes which carried on getting worse through the morning. Mum is doing well, she’s been up and about and is not in too much pain, so aside from only eating fairly sloppy …
We are family
I had some very random dreams last night, which meant I was slightly disturbed this morning. Dad and I had a conversation about crofts, Scotland and racism, which although mostly good natured and amicable also left me faintly troubled too. We headed over to Chris and Julie’s, via Lance to collect the Sharan which passed …
Just for Joyce ;)
Nice to wake up in Willow this morning, despite not nearly enough sleep. Ady and I were disturbed (I will not detail what we were disturbed from) by Scarlett sleep talking, well sleep shouting, something about castles which had us in hysterics at about 2am. Very funny. Up, dressed and breakfasted we walked across to …
Back in the van
A fairly relaxing morning for me – bath which the kids got into after me, then some breakfast and then a bit of online stuff. I did the SORN for Willow, went through a pile of paperwork and dealt with a couple of things that needed doing. I have a phonecall to the CCCS still …
Exemption certificate bashing
I had an email this morning to say the agents have served notice on our tenants. They will be leaving on 31st January. Next move is to engage an estate agent although I am anticipating that not being straightforward and a period of empty house happening before we actually sell. First thing this morning was …
Weekend
Saturday morning we had arranged to visit our friend Bruce. He has a huge farm over in Chichester which was a dairy farm for many years (as in his grandfather, father and him for years) milking several hundred cattle. Within the last 10 years or so they have ceased to have any cattle at all …