Author Archives: Nic
Further rollercoasterness
We were supposed to having Ali and Freya over today. We had a plan to catch up, be silly and maybe even drink wine together. It was not to be 🙁 With my car still over at Caz and Bid’s that had to be top priority for today, particularly when I tried to start the …
Up and down and back up again
Ady woke me this morning at 7am. 7 AM mind! to say it was dry and he thought we should go and try and get my car. I agreed and got up, chucked clothes on and contact lenses in and said he should just rouse the kids a little and tell them we were going …
When it rains and rains and rains and rains
Ever noticed just how many songs there are about rain? My personal faves include Rainy Days and Mondays (Carpenters), Rain (Mika), It’s Raining (Shakin Stevens), I wish it would rain down (Phil Collins), I think it’s going to rain today (Nina Simone). I worked this morning – I was looking forward to it actually. James, …
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Survival and being kids
Today was Archie’s birthday party, held over at Willow (no relation to the van) Organics where Caz and Bid are and with a Survival theme. When we woke up it was already raining and that pretty much set the tone of the day really. Ady had woken me to say he was not letting the …
Today was my ‘working all day’ day and Ady was taking Davies and Scarlett to work with him. This is a not-at-all sustainable solution that we have just four more months to try and muddle through. It’s not ideal, the kids spend a long day sat in the car, Ady gets stressed about trying to …
Pretending to be Jamie Oliver
Tasha, Toby and Vinnie came over today to see the campervan. I nipped to Sainsburys for fruit and veg supplies for Badgers before going to pick them up. They had the guided tour of the van including all of the ‘rules’ about taking shoes off, not playing in it etc. Then Tasha and I came …
Change of plan
Originally we were supposed to be having friends over today, they cancelled and so I thought I’d be super organised, go through the rest of the Badger meeting ‘lesson’ plans, write down a list of all the stuff I’d need to buy, get anything non-perishable now, write in my diary reminders for things to buy …
Update for Alison
Shoe shopping
Today was the RSPB walk meet up that we’ve not managed to get to for ages. I had full intentions of going but on checking the facebook event saw I was the only one planning to attend. We do love it there and can have a nice time when it just the three of us …
Apples
I’d intended to sleep in this morning but Scarlett and Ady were awake early as usual and Scarlett’s excitement at going to the duck house and finding a third egg was rowdy enough to wake me. She brought it up to show me and snuggled up with me for a while by which time I …
Campervantastic and Not Wendy
I had a bit of a hangover this morning having drunk a bottle of fizz last night rather later than planned due to the whole Scarlett Firesteelgate investigation 😆 I could have done without an alarm going off for me to go to work really. But I had a really good morning at work once …
Nic of many faces
Ady and the kids dropped me off at work this morning and went off to do some store visits for the day. I did the banking, sang songs with quite a large audience of parents and babies (10 adults, 14 children, 24 pairs of eyes all looking at me to see what else Old McDonald …
Driving in the driving rain
Today has been my least favourite sort of day, too much driving and not enough tea. Davies had the second of his Green Woodworking session so it was up with the alarm. The kids had breakfast and then did a birthday card each for Jack and Maisie (well they did one each and J&M got …
Untitledtastic
Ady went to Glee today, not the TV show, the gardening industry trade show at Birmingham NEC. He was there for work but did a spot of networking for potential jobs he could freelance at including some future QVC work. I like the idea of him having something lined up for while we’re away and …
For Alison, with lots of love xxx
If I could be arsed I’d get one of those tickers
but it’d only annoy Alison and like I said I can’t be arsed. Today we had no alarm to wake us, instead I was semi roused and lay there, eyes still closed, sort of dozing and listened to the house waking up. Ady is Busy In The Mornings. Well frankly unless Ady is sleeping he …
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Friends in The Smoke
Six years ago (almost to the day) Davies, Scarlett and I met up with some previously ‘imaginary’ friends at the Diana Playground in London. In many ways it was the start of our Home Ed journey. It was the first time we met Jan & Jonathan, Alison, Layla, Jax, Sarah and Barbara – people who …
WE’VE GOT A CAMPERVAN!
is what Ady, Davies, Scarlett and I have spent the latter part of the day dancing round shrieking at each other 🙂 🙂 🙂 This morning we spent some time pretending not to be thinking about the van, feeling touched by a very lovely text message offer (you know who you are 😉 love you …
on being snails
I worked this morning. Davies had YACs and it was being held at the Wood Fair at Bentley. Last year we all went and had a really good day out as although it’s not cheap to get in to once you are inside most stuff is free and it is very much the sort of …