Work for me again this morning. It was an odd morning with a really busy first three hours followed by a completely dead last half hour. A flurry of Merry Christmas!’s and an air of general silliness. I did almost lose my rag with Nightmare Colleague and snapped at her twice. It was probably for …
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Christmas Eve Eve
In brief. Worked this morning. We had no childcare so Ady manufactured some wild story about laying a festive wreath at his father’s grave annually the weekend before Christmas being snowed off so postponed til today and then dropped Davies and Scarlett off at the library at 1130 for the last hour and a half …
The eve of the eve of Christmas Eve
And all is festive :). I should always function on about 5 hours sleep and barely digested dinner from the day before, it makes for a very efficient morning. I tackled the mountain of clean laundry in the playroom and tasked the kids with putting their own clean washing away (doubt it’s been done properly …
Knitting, nattering and wrapping
Oh how very ‘street’ I’ve become ;). A very long overdue visit to Tasha and co today. The children all seemed fairly oblivious to the fact we’ve not seen each other for *ages* and fell straight into playing with each other. We didn’t see Davies and Toby for the whole time we were there, Scarlett …
Bit less humbuggy
Today was delivering all the local-ish Christmas cards day, which we always do on the last weekend before Christmas. It often seems to be the only time we actually see certain friends, despite promising each other every year we will get in touch and make the effort to get together more often. Christmas cards generally …
Saturday
Davies and I slept in late this morning while Ady and Scarlett who are the early risers in the house anyway, did some craft kits. They made bath bombs from the kit Ali and Freya gave Tarly for her birthday (and has turned out very impressive results) and a beaded windchime kit from Chris and …
Snow Day
There is a certain irony in me working all day when it snows and most of the local schools are closed and other parents are ringing into work to say they can’t come in. Ady has a COUGH at the moment. This has me consulting divorce lawyers, obviously, particularly at 3am when he’s woken me …
Soft Play, not hard work
I had a very ranty start to my morning with a phonecall from Ady regarding company cars. I went from shouting and swearing to tearful and back again, not helped by Ady handing his phone to someone else during the call so I had to pull myself together to chat to him aswell. Alls as …
caw caw
Way too early start this morning. Qotd from Tarly being “when you said I’d have to be up early this morning I didn’t realise you meant I had to get up in the dark!’ 😆 It was 7:30am. Ady and the kids headed off for Ady to drop them at Julie’s for the morning. I …
Bookgroup-tastic Tuesdays
Off to Katy’s house today where we’ve not been before, for 6+ reading group. Before we left home and indeed on the way I did some lecturing and Davies and Scarlett did some acknowledging that life needs to get more harmonious, cooperative and self-directed around here. Probably need to make all sorts of post-illness, pre-Christmas …
That Monday when I couldn’t think of a blog post title
It was the monthly Home Ed meet up at PB today and we’d have liked to have gone but with the MOT already run out on my car I decided not to risk driving it. Instead we had a morning at home. Scarlett has really gotten into drawing and making little paper things involving lots …
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Lost weekend
but not at a hotel in Amsterdam. Just here in Sompting. Saturday I worked in the morning. I spent most it doing this display: It’s a large cardboard box (that our green johanna composter came in) that Tarly and I had cut a hole in and painted brown on Friday. I made the fire and …
Friday with friends
I finally got round to digging out my car MOT certificate which I knew was about to run out any day and discovered today was indeed that day. Booked it in for Monday lunchtime and won’t need to drive it before then so that’s fine, now just need to keep fingers firmly crossed it gets …
Thursday with colleagues
I was back to work yesterday and after nearly 2 whole weeks off was quite looking forward to it really. The day seemed to whizz by and it was nice to be back catching up with everyone and chatting about our week away. I had an interesting chat with F who tells me she has …
Badgetastic
Off for a Winter Walk this morning with Julie, Jack, Maisie and Lorna. We met at the woods in Slindon. Last time we met there Jack and Maisie were really keen to head to the nearby park so we cut the walking in the woods part short. I said to Davies and Scarlett that actually …
Schmoozing
The suspected luxury of a lie in didn’t get much past 830am really but it was nice to wake to quietly chattering and laughing children rather than the beeping alarm. Breakfast and dressed for the children while I sorted out the kitchen which was a bit of a bombsite as Ady had got the Christmas …
And nobodys gonna go to school today…
I’m going to trail them round medical facilities instead. Dentist first thing this morning. Like properly first thing at 830am. Bleugh. Not sure I’ve ever typed that before, probably won’t ever again. Hope you are all appreciating the descriptiveness of it. Our dentist is across the road and up a bit – about a five …
Seven on the sixth
Everyone was up early again for present opening 🙂 Scarlett hadn’t really asked for anything specific this year other than a penknife and firesteel the same as Davies. We discussed the wisdom of this briefly but decided if we sent the children to Forest School which was all about lighting fires and using knives then …
Baaa!
I think we could all have done without the early start and busy day today but it wasn’t to be so everyone was up and ready to go by 9am. Ady had a busy day herding his little flock of two around: First Scarlett had Wildlife Explorers over at Pulborough Brooks. It was the Christmas …
Christmas Camp 2009
I knew we’d always struggle to match the magic of last years pretty near perfect Christmas Camp at Helmsley. The snow, the prettiness of the venue, the slightly smaller and therefore more initimate group of friends feel to the gathering all contributed to a holiday that leaves all four of us misty eyed when we …