All the most important things in life :). We slept in this morning and once we’d dealt with chickens and ducks and breakfast and I was sitting down with River Cottage family cookbook and debating yeast starters and home made bread when I got a text from Bid to ask if we were free today. …
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Exciting Chats :)
Since the blogpost outlining hopes and dreams the four of us have been talking and talking and talking. I’ve done some online research and looked at ideas such as Blackberry Farm Community (thank you Alison 🙂 ) and even contacted them (although I’ve not yet heard back), thought about what we would and wouldn’t do …
Friends, Chatterbooks and Duck related angst
A nice slow start to today, much needed after waking with alarms for at least the last five mornings in a row. I have all but given up fretting about the kids getting enough sleep figuring if they still have energy left at the end of each day to spend a couple of hours in …
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Sussex County Show
After a slightld disappointing Ardingly South of England Show this year (too pricey to get in, too commercial once you were in) we decided to give the Sussex Game and Country Show a go this year. In previous years we have always either been busy this weekend or assumed it will be a poorer relation …
It’s just a step to the left
Ady and Davies went off to YACs this morning. Ady is now an almost official parent-helper I think and was the only adult permitted to stay today as they were doing a dig and they encourage adults to be hands-off otherwise they take over apparentely. I love that Ady is going, partially as he seems …
It’s a little bit funny
I was at work all day today and Ady took Davies and Scarlett off with him. He was doing a B&Q store visit in Watford and the kids stayed in the car while he popped in and out. They had DSs and the radio and each other and were quite content sitting there. They got …
It’s Thursday, of that much I am sure.
It’s our 17th anniversary today. Not 17 years since we met, that was a few years earlier, not 17 years since we married, that was a few years later but 17 years since we became a couple. The actual reason we celebrate on June 17th has become slightly blurred over the years as we were …
To scale
Early start all round here which never feels right. Bleary eyed and staggering I wrapped Lorna’s (very) late birthday present, the children got dressed and they all left the house so Ady could drop Davies and Scarlett at Julie’s for the morning. I enjoyed the half an hour or so of the house all to …
A local friend who runs a Circus skills group with her husband and another woman had facebook messaged me last week to say this week they had a gymnast coming in to teach the children some tumbling skills. The Circus group runs on a Tuesday afternoon and clashes with swimming lessons. I have previously tried …
List ticking Monday
Today was Pulborough Brooks day but taking inspiration from Jan who was not going to be standing around in the rain today I’d looked at the weather forecast and didn’t plan to be walking around in rain today. As it turned out the weather forecast was wrong and we’ve had another day of glorious sunshine …
Open Farm Sunday
Today was our fourth Open Farm Sunday attending event. The first year we went to Lancing College farm which is just up the road from us and more of an educational resource than a working farm with a handful of all animals but no real crops. Years two and three we went to an organic …
Thursday and Friday oh and maybe Saturday aswell…
Thursday I was at work all day. As I’ve mentioned before I don’t feel like I have much to blog about on my all day at work days. Today was no exception really. I had an okay day, some banter with colleagues, spent some time writing up an account of the Chatterbooks session on Monday …
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Living the dream
First of all a bit of a disclaimer. At this stage we are very much at the sharing hopes and dreams, putting it all ‘out there’ and not letting cold hard reality prevent us from talking about our vision. The next stage will be the rather tougher information gathering reality check level. We’ve sort of …
London
The promised post is in draft but it’s taking ages to get written down properly. Today Davies, Scarlett and I went up to London. When I got the latest Educators brochure from the Science Museum I went through and booked up various events. They are super cheap and generally very good. Today was a Space …
Splash!
Off to visit our new friends who live on a boat today. Abbie is 8 and gets on really well with Scarlett, sharing a love of animals and talking non-stop. They have met three times now and still fill all their time together nattering away like two old women :). Helen’s middle daughter, Alex, who …
Monday in brief
Otherwise I won’t catch up! Slept in late, must have needed it. The kids had sorted out their own breakfast – hurrah! I’ve been lecturing Davies lately about getting a bit more self-reliant as he is *nearly ten!*. I think some of it is going in. He is very hard to be cross with for …
Lyme Regis and River Cottage
Having had a fab weekend with friends last weekend this weekend the four of us enjoyed some time together just our family :). I’d booked tickets for a Spring Into Summer event at River Cottage HQ months ago as a surprise for Ady with the intention of camping nearby on the Saturday night if the …
Sicknote
I had a lie in this morning to fully justify being off sick. I have quite some sleep deficit to catch up on thanks to some truly dreadful nights over the last week or so and now the itching has properly stopped I am sleeping very well again. I woke and finally looked more like …
Whooshing week
which is what you get when you spend the first two days wandering up hills and sitting in cars I guess :). Wednesday Very tired indeed I did sleep through from Tuesday night but woke very itchy, puffy and flaky yet again. I went to work but the concerned peering at my face from all …
Patchwork Friends
Saturday I worked in the morning and was kindly on duties not too close in contact with the general public. Every member of staff came and had a good old peer at me though and offered the same line of questionning about whether we’d changed washing powder. Is that one of those urban myths toted …