you’re TRAPPED! We woke up this morning to more snow, which hadn’t been expected down here but had come just the same. We’d not really had a plan for the day so we decided to keep to not having a plan and stay home. Scarlett got out a couple of animal books (she got several …
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Scarlett got into bed with me this morning while it was still dark. She was lovely to cuddle up to but less lovely to have conscious conversation with as I’d not got to sleep til nearly 3am, so eventually she got bored of my monosybillic answers (which probably still didn’t make sense) and got up …
Or maybe even the end of our drive. Put to the vote Davies and Scarlett both wanted to stay home today. Davies and I had quite a long chat later about what he wants to do more of and I’ll come to that in a bit. But the vote was to stay home and play …
I went to bed really early (for me) last night having felt a bit spaced out for most of the day and slept round the clock so I must have needed it. I woke feeling much better which was a relief as I was worried I might be coming down with something. Ady had taken …
More snow had fallen overnight so Ady and the kids spent some time in the garden playing this morning. I finally finished some online stuff that has taken way longer than I’d expected it to. The morning sort of drifted by and then it was lunchtime. The kids wanted to go to a charity shop …
Work for me today. Ady had been supposed to attend a meeting this morning so I’d arranged for Dad to have the children in the morning rather than the afternoon but at the last minute yesterday afternoon Ady’s meeting was cancelled due to snow so he was just doing local price surveys (a bit like …
which for some reason always puts me in mind of Milly Molly Mandy although there is every chance she never actually trudged anywhere. I woke up this morning and laid for a while before I opened my eyes trying to guess what time it would be. I’d woken when Ady got up but fallen asleep …
I went to bed feeling very blessed with lovely friends, not to mention wishing I’d not signed up to quite so many forums and mailing lists that had all bombarded my inbox with automated birthday greetings moments past midnight :). I was a bit disgruntled about lack of snow mind you. I woke up about …
it’s my birthday tomorrow. Up early with alarm clock assistance this morning as I’d said we’d collect Dad from the MOT centre at 9am after he’d dropped his van off there. I got up and dressed, woke Davies and Scarlett, let the chickens out and broke the ice on their water, did the washing up …
just as well it’s a slow, lazy, rather random one ;). ‘Back to school’ yesterday then. Dad was having his van MOT’d at the industrial estate down the road at 11am and had asked if I’d go and pick him up so he could wait at our house for it to be done. The car …
Ady cooked pancakes this morning for breakfast. Actually he’s been cooking them most mornings for the children but today I partook of one too. Davies had ‘homework’ from Sea Scouts as part of his Global Challenge badge and had to choose an international charity and find out some facts about it. He and Ady had …
After trying to be all sensible and go to bed early last night to be ready for work this morning all of my best laid plans were foiled. Scarlett was still listening to an audiobook and Davies was still listening to his radio. I got into bed beside Ady, who was watching the TV and …
to be including around this time next year in our Round Up of 2010. In the closest we ever get to planning anything in advance here is what we want to do, see, learn, experience, visit and make happen. I have mentioned to several people IRL that we do this rather vague list every year …
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New Years Eve I had to work from 11-2 so I was up, dressed in Nicola-clothes and had gathered up all the books and dvds that were due back by about 930am. I left the others still in pjs playing with lego and playmobil – I think other than chopping some wood ready for getting …
January The year started, as all good ones should, surrounded by people we love at LovelyEm’s Lovely Parent’s lovely house.. We got a table – yes this is worthy of a place in the roundup and yes it is still a clear horizontal surface at the end of every day. And yes, I still hate …
Am looking forward to tomorrow, for all sorts of reasons but chiefly that I get to go to work for 3 hours which I’m sure will lift everyone’s spirits! 😉 This morning with some gentle cajoling Ady stopped cleaning, making food and generally not being in the room with the rest of us and did …
Ady went out first thing to take Davies’ videocamera back as the volume still wasn’t working properly on playback. We decided it was a design fault on that model so have upgraded to a slightly more expensive one. This doesn’t have sound on playback at all but is far more robust with a better quality …
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one screaming harridan, one hiding husband, one tearful daughter, one subdued son and a whole load of recyling. Tomorrow, tomorrow I will find my equilibrium again and be back to normal. Today must have been my last hurrah or something. Davies and Scarlett’s bedrooms were in turmoil so I sent them off to tidy them …
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Too much sitting around eating and drinking too much and being inside was catching up with me today so I insisted we went out. I’d earmarked ‘a Sussex Christmas’ at the Weald and Downland Museum for Boxing Day but been convinced by Ady that it would be too muddy after heavy rain on Christmas Day …
Davies and Scarlett took forever to go to sleep on Christmas Eve, I remember being much the same at their age. Finally they went to sleep about 1130pm so we brought all the presents down, put them under the tree, filled their stockings and replaced them at the ends of their beds and went to …