It was cold and dark and rainy, I was cosy by the fire but a promise is a promise and mine was to Aspire I’ve pledged to swim the channel, length by length by length I’ve got 12 weeks to do it, I’m building up my strength My hair has gone all frizzy, my skin’s …
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Waterproof Mascara
I had that lovely feeling this morning of not needing to get up when I first woke, so I turned over and went back to sleep. For someone so rubbish at going to bed I do still enjoy sleeping :). Scarlett cut her toe somehow in the kitchen while racing to go and let the …
Zephyr
Which happens to be the name of a small Home Ed child locally but is a word I first encountered as a small child when it cropped up in a story book about a little zephyr who tries to blow a big black rain cloud away. I can’t recall any more of the story but …
sweets for my sweet
Davies made my tea this morning 🙂 I do hope the novelty of bringing me tea doesn’t wear off any time soon :). He and I sat and had a chat about life and Scarlett came and joined us. We talked about it being an odd couple of months ahead with the bulk of our …
While we still have a chance…
I’d provisionally signed us up for some textile workshops for the next few Tuesdays which although a bit of a drive away sounded really good and worth committing too but not enough people signed up so they didn’t go ahead 🙁 Which meant we were free today in the end. I celebrated this with a …
What’s that smell of chlorine?
Home made laughter
We were supposed to be at Pulborough Brooks this morning. I even put bread in the breadmaker on timer before I went to bed last night so we could take lunch with us. But when the alarm went off at 8am there was wind and rain lashing against the windows so I knew we wouldn’t …
Swingin’ weekend
Saturday was Wildlife Explorers so up and out earlyish. Davies and Scarlett went and did some drawing and then went out onto the reserve to look for birds. Davies is now 2 years too old for that session and Scarlett will be too old from next month and it’s showing as they are not learning …
Friday
Work day for me all day. I was up early with Ady and the kids and left with an hour to myself after they had left before I had to go to work so blogged on Monster&Teeny about motivation, spurred on by some conversations with friends who visited my Book Sale and some work colleagues …
Christmas cake, 3d shapes and someone for the book sale
sung to the ‘tune’ of We Didn’t Start the fire. A song I would love to write some new lyrics for and one day probably will :). I had a very long lie in this morning to make up for several crap nights sleep and felt better for it, despite a noisy / wriggly ten …
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Davies and Scarlett shaped gaps
I’ve been sleeping badly the last few nights and last night was not helped by Davies staggering into our room just after 2am saying he’d had a bad dream. He got into bed with us and that meant the rest of my night was even more unsettled. This morning I talked to him about his …
Less sleeping = less swimming
Today I wanted to make our Christmas cake, get an ebay parcel posted, pop into the library to collect some items and take some back and then go swimming. We had a slow-ish start, Scarlett made breakfast for her and Davies and tea for me :). I am sure there is a healthy element of …
Cut short today but over halfway
Vegetarian, vegan and simply not quite as carnivorous as me friends…
Please give me some feedback on this menu 🙂 Starter: soup, I’m thinking the butternut and nut butter soup from the River Cottage programme the other day. Main: Roasted vegetables with nutty stuffing balls. I’m planning red onions, garlic, carrots, parsnips, sweet potatoes, potatoes all roasted in red wine and olive oil with plenty of …
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Book Sale
Today was the Open House Book Sale day I had had the brainwave to do last week. I had about 8 people arranged to come along with the first at 1030am. Davies and Scarlett were already up and breakfasted and Ady was still around so I made myself a cup of tea and hung some …
Not scared
We sort of split the hour this morning, getting up a tiny bit later than usual but having extra daytime too. I quite like the clocks going back, not just for the extra hour but because I enjoy the dark evenings, although I do support the 10:10 campaign for staying lighter longer for all the …
Work, declutter, wedding video
I worked this morning. Despite being up in plenty of time to sit and have some tea and toast before heading off thanks to the big clock being about 5 minutes slow I was late for work 😳 I had a nice morning, did some more of my ECDL, spent some time chatting to James …
Second time this week
I’m only doing the whole thing so I can put this up to annoy Alison
Fixing Man, Mum, Mate and Many Lengths
Waking at Alarm O’clock this morning and I was aware of Scarlett in the bathroom. I hit snooze and staggered out of bed a couple of minutes later and was sure I could ‘feel’ a presence. I checked the stairs and Davies’ room (where he was still asleep) but could see noone so sat down …
Splitting It
I was working all day today and Davies and Scarlett went off with Ady. I managed to get up and ready and leave in time to nip to the post office before work so sent some ebay parcels off. We were short staffed today so morning teabreak and my lunchbreak were spent alone in the …