Up with the alarm today as Richard the mechanic was coming at 830am. I was most surprised to find Davies already downstairs when I came down. He’d got up so early he’d even seen Ady :). I’d made dough for cinnamon rolls last night knowing I’d be up early enough to make them so I …
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Biding Time
I had work today. Ady took Davies & Scarlett with him on a big circuitous drive along the coast and back into Kent taking in Dover, Ramsgate and other such places. They seemed to have a nice day and managed to fit in some educational stuff along the way. Work for me was fine, I …
Where do cows go to learn more on a specific topic?
A moosium. This blogpost title is brought to you for the sole interest of making Ali laugh. Along with where do cows go when they want to see jazz hands? A moosical. Where do cows go when they want to see a film? The mooovies? And what is a cows favourite song? I like to …
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Balancing cows
Today the kids and I went to an Educational visit to Plumpton college. There are a couple of colleges in Sussex / Hampshire specialising in farming / agriculture / animals which I earmarked several years ago as potential places for both Davies and Scarlett to get qualifications in the things they are interested in if …
Stop me if you’ve heard this before…
I feel like I’ve already blogged today from various friendfeed updates 🙂 The kids and I had a lie in, so letting out & feeding chickens, sorting the kids breakfast, tidying up the kitchen and then sitting down with a cup of tea was all I managed before about 10am. Both the kids needed a …
Super speedy catch up
Friday Feels a long time ago now, despite only barely being the day before yesterday. I worked all day, Davies & Scarlett went off with Ady for the day. Work was fine, I did Baby Rhyme Time which I’ve not done for ages and if we find a tenant and leave as planned I will …
Zombies ate your brain
Hmm so my gift to the rather more structured HE folk out there is the bad / good / learnt today. Their gift back is introducing us to Plants Vs Zombies… something not quite right there ;). More rain, don’t remember the last day it didn’t rain actually. Sod getting the car started and dealing …
A shit home ed provision ;)
I worked this morning. Dad stayed here with Davies and Scarlett. Apparently he mostly teased Scarlett while having a conversation with Davies about how people who climb mountains ‘because they are there’ are suicidal idiots. Oh he’s all about the tolerance and respect for the views of others is my Dad ;). My car wouldn’t …
These boots were made for walking…
This morning we were off to Tasha’s. We’d already arranged to see if my car would start and if not walk. I was fairly convinced by the colour of the sky that we’d be walking in the rain for at least one of the to and from journeys and sure enough my car didn’t start …
Well wasn’t yesterdays post title prophetic!
If I was superstitious I’d come up with something predicting good news and all round cheer for tomorrow, but suspect Mystic Meg has nothing to worry about in the way of competition from me and my fortune telling skills 😉 Scarlett’s sleep pattern seems retored to normal thankfully. Slightly less thankfully she is noisy in …
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Life’s a laugh and death’s a joke it’s true…
Everyone had a lie in this morning til 10am. Don’t remember the last time Ady slept in that late ever! Ady made up for his lazy start by being very productive tidying and cleaning in our bedroom and the upstairs bathroom ready for the viewing tomorrow. Our en suite shower tends to get used as …
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Spooky
I had work this morning, which I really struggled to get up for. Once I was there it was fine though, 3.5 hours is a perfect shift length :). Ady and the kids did the queuing at the post office thing with all the ebay parcels I didn’t manage to send yesterday thanks to my …
Heads and tails
We all woke up super late this morning 😳 which is of course why Davies and Scarlett are so shocking at getting to sleep at night and then why we all wake late and then go to sleep late etc. I’d say it was a vicious circle but actually I think it is more a …
The ballard of Nic Goddard
The lyrics of the Ballard Of Lucy Jordan seem very wrong as I hit the Age of 37. I wonder is it like the Age of Not Believing but for grown ups? I shall not be cleaning the house for hours or rearranging the flowers, the kids shall not be off to school and in …
Walking with cavemen or children
I caught up on the WW blog this morning, helped Davies with a couple of rows of knitting. He’s mastered knitting pretty quick although is finding purl tricky. He needs to do stocking stitch for what he wants to make but I am thinking maybe I could do the alternate every other row of purl …
Good, bad, knit, purl
I woke at 9am, poor Ady had left for work a good two hours before that. I woke the kids and had them downstairs breakfasting by 930am, tomorrow we’ll try an earlier start as they were both still awake at midnight again tonight despite being in bed by 9pm. The craziness of Christmas, New Year, …
What we want in 2011
Every year we sit down and talk about things we want to do / see / experience / achieve / learn in the coming year. Everyone gets as short or long list as they like but they need to take the bulk of the responsibility for achieving it themselves. This year has been a slightly …
For Joyce, although you might have to get used to it ;)
Friday – New Years Eve. I worked all day, but I’d had over a week off and indeed have over a week until my next shift so not too much of a hardship really. It was a mix of busy and quite cheery with everyone wishing each other Happy New Year, and quite tedious when …
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2010 – a round up
January We saw 2009 out and 2010 in with various friends at The Salmon’s. actual birthday with family out for a meal and with two cakes in celebration of reaching double digits 🙂