Thursdaywas my all day at work day this week. Ady had Davies and Scarlett with him and they went off doing store visits, stopped at a beach and had lunch and beat me home. They all seemed to have had a nice day together although I don’t really know what they got up to. They …
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Eels and popcorn
About 2 months ago when I was feeling flush and on a frenzy of booking stuff (Firework Makers Daughter, dressing up movie premiere gala nights, that sort of thing ;)) I also tried to book an event at Chichester Harbour Conservancy – a Stream Walk. It was fully booked even a couple of months in …
Hanging
Woke with no tea and no missing animals this morning (although that didn’t remain the case sadly). Our plan had been to visit Caz and Bid at their new home (on a farm) this afternoon but an email from them with a change to their plans for the day meant we were able to go …
Quail resuce, pledging fitness, ebaytastic
I was woken this morning by Ady telling me the last two quails had escaped and flown away. They have been nothing but trouble really and the friend who wants to buy them has been tricky to pin down to a date and time to hand them over as their numbers have gone down rapidly …
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Lazy Saturday, crazy Sunday
Ady had to do a bit of work on Saturday morning. He had needed to do a photo shoot of some plants all week and as the consequence of managing to take Davies and Scarlett along with him on Wednesday morning and all day Friday so I could work meant it hadn’t gotten done. So …
Being Nicola on Friday 13th
Ady had a Special Assignment for B&Q today which was covertly going round Homebase and Focus and checking whether they have equivalent lines to B&Q on about 100 products, noting down the price and barcode and trying not to get caught, entering all the info in a spreadsheet and then emailing it back to B&Q. …
Operation Book Cull and Promenade Production
We could have met up with friends today but I have no petrol in my car and am trying to preserve funds this month having transferred all extra cash into the Campervan fund. I was also aware of tonight being a planned late night and had things I wanted to crack on with at home. …
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What happened yesterday
I worked in the morning – Ady took Davies and Scarlett off with him so I was home alone for an hour or so, always a slightly strange situation given how infrequently it happens. Ady had picked me up an ipod shuffle (*tiny* little thing) for £15 in one of the supermarket staff shops so …
De-stash
My mate Tasha has taught me new words today 🙂 Everyone was up really early this morning – I woke with Ady’s alarm at 6am, Davies got up too, then Tarly did and I never got back to sleep so Ady brought me a cup of tea and I got up. The weather was crappy …
‘We could just buy a bus!’
says Ady perusing ebay 😆 Off to visit Helen, Alex and Abbie today on board their boat. I didn’t allow enough time to take the horrid school summer holiday traffic into account, particularly through hotspots such as Arundel, Chichester and the Witterings so what could be a half hour drive in light traffic or an …
Operation Crap Clear continues…
Scarlett ended up sleeping in our bed last night. Solely because she wasn’t asleep when we went up to bed, infact neither was Davies, and she doesn’t like being left downstairs on her own. This meant it was only a matter of time before someone gave up trying to sleep three in a bed and …
Slack Blogger
Thursday was my all day at work day. I’ve been struggling with work since we got back from holiday for various reasons. I think one is that it is just hard being on my ankle all day really. It is far, far better at nearly 5 weeks in and although it is stiff first thing …
Nature and that
We’d arranged to meet up with Julie, Jack, Maisie and Lorna at PYO today although Julie and I had failed to speak since to actually arrange a time but we managed it this morning and as Julie has a cold and I was worried about doing too much on my ankle today we planned a …
Not being ourselves
Today Davies and Scarlett were signed up for a workshop at the most excellent Making Space. It’s not that nearby, a good hours drive but is reasonably priced with enthusiastic, friendly staff who really put on a good event so is worth the travelling for occassional events. We would have had to leave well before …
Lip balm and blood letting
I decided to let everyone sleep til they woke naturally this morning – Ady aside of course. So I woke at 9am, Scarlett at 10am and Davies at 1030am. They had breakfast and got dressed, I did lots of laundry. Davies finished off the last bit on an xbox game which means he’s completed it …
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Friday was a bit of a wash out really. Davies had been suffering on and off all week with some sort of cold / cough and having been quiet on Thursday for most of the day suddenly announced he felt sick when we left the cinema in the evening. He went straight to bed when …
Misty Eyed
Davies and Scarlett did some animation station and playing with the toy animals this morning. We looked at a very cool animation that Jonathan had showed Davies when we were last staying with them, which is all the cooler for featuring Worthing pier and seafront. Davies had made some plasticine dinosaurs the other night and …
Not Home, not educating
Work for me today. I had planned to get up with everyone else and I heard them all up and being noisy and getting ready but then suddenly it all went quiet and I realised they’d all left! Ady dropped Davies and Scarlett off at Julie’s. This left me a very leisurely morning to get …
Timely Friends
The hen hasn’t appeared at all today. One of the other hens has a poorly leg and is limping, coincidentally her left leg the same as me but I’m guessing hens don’t do empathic cracked ankles so it probably is genuine. I hope the hen does reappear, she is one of our favourites. I assume …
At home you say?
Davies was up early this morning with a nose bleed. He went through a phase of having them pretty freqently when he was littler and has always been good at dealing with them in his usual unhysterical manner but he’s not had one for ages. Yesterdays not-quite-right-ness seemed to have left him other than that …