Nothing to get up for this morning – bliss 🙂 Ady’s friend Tom had given us a real Christmas tree (via his job, he works for the company who supply Homebase so we got a sample one, it’s a bit bottom heavy and could probably do with a trim but it’s free and smells gorgeous) …
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Eight!
Am in the middle of the usual slushy birthday post which will appear in the side bar at some point. But to the actual day… Ady heard Davies get up in the night and go downstairs, he listened out assuming he had gone to get a drink but when he didn’t come back up Ady …
Post camp, pre birthday
Saturday started slowly as we were all still in post camp recovery. Scarlett and I are suffering from Camp Cough, Davies seems to be going down with it and Ady has thus far escaped but will probably be next. Heavy rain overnight had washed away pretty much all the snow much to the kids disappointment. …
Christmas Camp
Sunday we were all up, car packed, rooms rearranged for Dad to come in and decorate and in the car before 10am :). The journey was smooth and straightforward all the way with no stops at all until we reached Okehampton other than a quick dash into the Sainsburys at Bournmouth for tissues as no …
Twas the night before Christmas camp
and all through the house… clothes were drying on radiators and many cakes were nestling in tupperware… Poor Tarly had a rough night last night, it was 11 before either of the kids were in bed and then she was in our bed by about 2am. She said she’d had a bad dream but during …
Friday, I’m in love
In love with my friend Tasha who checked on the start time for today’s Stone Age workshop and realised it was 10am, not 1030am as I had thought, text me to let me know so we could arrange to pick them up half an hour earlier. And she made soup and cheese scones and brought …
Work gets in the way
to the tune of ‘Smoke gets in your eyes’. Ady had meetings today so couldn’t take Davies and Scarlett which meant I had to beg childcare off my Dad. I know he doesn’t mind and one of the many things I adore about my Dad is he will either say yes or no to a …
Our sort of day :)
I love out and about days the most :). I love seeingf rriends, learning from passionate experts, being with people, drinking tea and coming home to deconstruct it all with the 3 most important people in my world afterwards. Today had all of the above and more :). I allowed more time for the car …
First things first
Done :). I can’t deny it’s been a slog at times. 1073 lengths is bloody loads, it’s been 12 sessions which would have meant the 12 weeks in which I had to do it in was perfect but for the fact the first week we were away camping at Sustainability and the last week we’ll …
Ding dong tyre-ly on geomag
We were due to go to Book Club this morning. This has been an incredibly successful local-ish group which we were lucky enough to join at the very beginning. Like all good things it has had it’s time of change and re-evaluation and now has two guises – the more structured group and the more …
Not a picnic
or a walk in the park, or a breeze. Sometimes its tough to moan or feel able to gripe when a situation is of your own making. I am feeling a great affinity with a couple of specific friends today… I am hoping this is the toughest part of preparing to go off next year …
Swimming to freedom
I had a lay in this morning which was lovely 🙂 Davies was still feeling a bit rough and hadn’t gone to YACs. He doesn’t really seem to have many symptoms and I suspect aside from a bit of a cold he doesn’t have much wrong with him but didn’t really want us to go …
To make you sponsor me…
To the tune of Make you feel my love When the waters splashing in my face And it feels like an unwinnable race I think I’ll just cut to the chase Please will you sponsor me When the pool is full of annoying folk when my knees hurt from too much breast stroke when a …
The last taboo
Once upon a time, when you all first knew me I was pretty different to who I am now. Sure there are glimmers of that person – there is still the cleavage, the wine-supping, the drunken singing – you know all the most attractive aspects of my personality ;). But you knew me back when …
Walking in their world
We had plans to meet up with Julie, Jack, Maisie and Lorna this morning but Julie had other things to be doing. I could easily get irritated about this (and sometimes briefly do) as she does it fairly often – she doesn’t cancel she just decides to do something else instead and assumes others will …
Work, chat, Badgers
Dad came over first thing this morning with his jump leads to help get my car started. Ady and the kids went off to Croydon to do some store visits and Dad and I had breakfast together before doing a quick tour round the house to discuss decorating requirements :). We then headed outside to …
Knees
Davies and Scarlett have watched How to train your dragon very comprehensively today. The second disc (with a short film), all of the extras on both discs, sat and stopped and started the tutorial ‘how to draw a dragon’ with pen and paper drawing alongside it and Davies presented a lovely picture of Toothless the …
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Tom and Barbara
I was grumpy first thing this morning. Both the children were awake and up and noisy far too early. I shouted down to them to be quieter three times before getting up (although Scarlett did bring me a cup of tea). I then went in the playroom to get the books ready for the person …
Wet
I woke this morning with a real feeling of being lucky to have slept in a bed last night. Which of course meant my next thought was ‘so why the bloody hell am I giving it up then?’ 😆 Plenty to ponder on there but I guess the other blog is the place to explore …