Aside from nipping out to see if my car would start (it didn’t) I’ve not left the house today. I have put Christmas back in the box though 🙂 I love Christmas, I’m less keen on the limbo period between Christmas and New Year really, particularly as it stretches to 2 weeks round here with …
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Leaving the house
Today we’d arranged to head over to Caz and Bid’s, both to see them and to give them various bits cleared from our garden / garage that they might find useful. Caz was not there but the kids went off to play and Ady and I had a nice couple of hours with Bid and …
And tomorrow I will leave the house!
I’ve stayed in all day yesterday and today. Feels slightly like wasted days I have to confess but probably I should be savouring sitting in the warm and dry on a sofa with a TV as I’m not planning on doing much of that next year. Yesterday we had half a plan to go and …
Festive Beach on Boxing Day
I had a festive lie in this morning which was much needed. Ady had a festive early morning, he loves being off work at Christmas (after so many years in retail the novelty has yet to wear off of a full week plus off work at Christmas) so he made a cooked breakfast, chopped firewood …
Festive Christmas
We had our takeaway last night and it was delicious. We were just settling down to watch something on TV before bringing out the presents and maybe getting an early night in view of expected early morning to follow when the phone rang. We didn’t answer it but listened to a rather slurred message from …
Festive Blogpost
like a normal blogpost but with added alcohol, no wait that is a normal blogpost. Like a normal blogpost but with added cheer and merriment and feelings of goodwill and happiness, no wait that is a normal blogpost. Like a normal blogpost but with music blaring from various rooms, kids in bed but nowhere near …
Array of hope
Work again this morning, a shorter shift though, and my last before Christmas. Dad was over with Davies and Scarlett and we had a potential tenant viewing booked for 11am, so Dad and the kids were fully briefed on what they could and couldn’t do and say, I lit a fire and with strict instructions …
Five Gold Rings
I had work this morning. Ady took Davies and Scarlett off with him and they drove north of the downs where there is actually some snow. Other than the heavy fall here while we were at camp, which we missed all of while having only a fairly small amount in Okehampton we have had no …
Pushing that shortest day / longest night tag
Oh what an anarchist I am 🙂 We needed to pick up and pay for my car this morning. After some debate we decided to walk there (Dad had offered a lift). It’s not far but it’s a tedious and boring route alongside a busy road just walking past houses and then the last ten …
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Car trauma
I rang the garage first thing this morning as my car was theoretically going to be ready on Friday, or Saturday at the latest and I’d not heard anything. We had a half arranged plan to see Caz and Bid today but weather and transport issues on both sides had us rearranging that for later …
for want of a better place
stuffed duck links… guess what I’ll be spending next couple of nights doing…. This one here and this one here
Right deep breath….
slackness of blogging abounds, need to catch up. Friday I was supposed to be at work all day and the kids were supposed to be on the road with Ady for the day, including heading to Costco for the turkey. Scarlett woke covered head to toe in a pretty impressive rash though. After discussion we …
Ding Dong Merrily….
Crap nights sleep – again. S in bed coughing in my face and sharing my pillow from the early hours. We then totally overslept and I misunderstood Ady asking what time we’d be ready for him to pick us up with what time I wanted him to wake me up so he woke me with …
work and agents
Work for me this morning. I had coughed lots last night so was suffering a sore throat and coughed more at work which developed into a headache but a couple of painkillers saw it off in the afternoon. Work was fine, all of the people I care about there have secured new job roles in …
3, 6, 9 the goose drank wine
which is handy really, self marinading and quite possibly why it’s getting fat, it’s all bloated with too much chardonnay. Missed blogging last night so here’s a special bonus two day catch up edition 🙂 Monday we all had a bit of a lay in and then headed over to Tasha’s. The twin obstacles of …
Coughs and laughter
Scarlett woke much brighter yesterday morning and had pancakes for breakfast which was promising as she’d only eaten a carrot on Saturday and then coughed until she vomited that back up anyway 🙁 I had a bit of a tantrum about the house being a tip – this week coming we *really* need to get …
Journey back in time
I have that early parenting feeling of broken nights and too much time sat on a sofa under a child. After a crap night the night before last Scarlett appeared in our room not long after I’d gone to bed and spent the night with me while Ady disappeared downstairs with his pilllow. I feel …
Where are you Mark?
Don’t phone, it’s just for fun. After a late and boozy night last night I had a really crappy nights sleep but had to be up earlyish to get my car to it’s MOT for 9am. Ady had stayed home to follow me there and bring me home again – it’s about a half hour …
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may well come and flesh it out later but today involved work, meal out with work colleages, long talks about whether life is all over by the time you are 40 (with someone who wasn’t even born when I bought the scarf I was wearing this evening). Kids and Ady went to panto. Both children …
But then again, too few to mention…
I was woken to the sound of squabbling offspring and a sobbing, stomping up the stairs loser in the battle. Davies. Who is pretty much always the loser in a head to head battle between them as she uses the illegal force of violence whereas he practically never does. He got the half an hour …