When I woke up this morning the sun was shining, by the time we left the house it was tipping down with rain and it continued to do so for about two hours 🙁 Ady shone shoes, the kids were persuaded into several layers of clothing including socks – Davies took no persuading at all, …
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Future self can feel smug
I don’t even remember posting that last night! 😳 So, catching up then… Friday work all day for me. I did banking in the morning, followed by Baby Rhyme Time. We had a good crowd including Pushy Mum, Pushy Granny and faintly disinterested daughter who are fairly regular attenders. When I asked if anyone had …
Have drunk
far too much to attempt to blog tonight. Not at all sure what future self will make of this – will she be all reformed sober and judgemental? If so she can consider this great evidence of a drink problem and use it to highlight when she realised things were sliding. Will she merely be …
So tired
and rather proud of myself for remaining silent on things where ‘people are wrong on the internet’ to misquote a funny cartoon. Not sure if I am coming down with something or just tired and suffering from Clocks Going Back Syndrome which must surely be something known only by its intials and with some homeopathic …
Their Story
I waved Ady and the kids off this morning to Julie’s. We were a bit seat-of-our-pants today wrt childcare as I was staying a couple of hours later than usual at work for the My Story event so the plan was Ady would drop Davies and Scarlett off with Julie, spend the morning in the …
The lengths I went to
Another morning at home which Davies and Scarlett were pleased about, maybe they are getting more into time spent at home or maybe they’re just hunkering down for the winter? Whatever they continued much in the same vein as yesterday watching some TV (Evacuees again) and then connecting on their DS to play Viva Pinata. …
Pumpkintastic
Determined to see if I could not waste any of the pumpkins this year (which were free and locally grown anyway) I decided to deal with the carved out stuff today. The pumpkins themselves are round with the chickens who are making very short work of them. It is also quite gruesomely amusing watching the …
Family
The kids sleepover needed some sort of disclaimer really as there wasn’t a great deal of sleeping happening really 😆 I went to bed at 1230 and they were still awake, although quiet then. I had a really bad nights sleep as the cockerel decided to crow about 4 or 5 times at 430am – …
Spookiness
Yesterday I was feeling a bit guilty that we’d not really done anything Halloweeny, although in fairness it’s just an excuse for a party rather than anything we really celebrate as such. I don’t much like the whole trick or treat thing and the only way we’d ever do it is on an organised walk …
Thursday and Friday
Thursday Was my working all day day. Ady was home in the morning and Mum came over after lunch. The children tell me they spent most of the day playing with the toy animals. The dinosaurs are enjoying a lot of attention again thanks to Prehistoric Park :). My day was fine – fairly run …
Man in the mirror
I booked tickets to take Davies and Scarlett to see the Michael Jackson film ‘This is it’ about 3 weeks ago, it opened today at our local cinema. I wouldn’t class myself as a MJ fan particularly but my brother liked him when we were kids so there have always been his albums around, Ady …
Tuesday’s stuff
The plus side of the clocks going back is everyone is waking early-for-us at the moment. I don’t seem to be managing to get to bed correspondingly early though (and actually neither do the children) so I suspect it is not long term plus. Davies and Scarlett used their early start to catch up on …
Recycling and the Park Police
This morning was a field trip for my Waste Prevention Advisors course to a MRF (said as ‘murf’) which stands for Materials Recycling Facility. It’s a new all singing, all dancing jewel in the crown of West Sussex County Councils recycling that opened earlier this year complete with classroom and viewing platform. I’d asked ages …
Was Friday really only the day before yesterday ago?
give or take an extra hour or so… So Friday then. I worked all day. In the morning it rained really, really heavily just at the point I had to go to the bank to pay in takings. I did find a brolly from lost property to take but the bank clerk had a laugh …
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Film Ed and stuff
We went to our only NSFW screening for this year this morning. I’d booked Longleat for Monday without realising it was film week which wrote Monday off and then I worked yesterday and am working again tomorrow which only left Tuesday and today free. I did try and book films for Tuesday and another for …
Is it really Wednesday already?
Another early start today as Ady was dropping Davies and Scarlett off at Elizabeth’s to play with T and M while I worked this morning. I helped chivvy breakfast consumption and getting dressed and waved them off before getting dressed myself and spending some time with the chickens. Work was very brisk and busy, just …
Foiled again
This morning I bimbled about getting a stew in the slow cooker for later, making a picnic and dealing with the chickens in daylight. The kids did some drawing and also bimbled about really. Our plan was to head to Julie’s where she was waiting for a bulk food order to be delivered and then …
Longleat
We’ve been to Longleat before, 4 years ago after a week in Centerparcs with my parents to celebrate Davies’ fifth birthday. We had a really good time then but as the kids were just 5 and not even 3 it was always somewhere we intended re-visiting when they were a bit older. This visit came …
Le Weekend
I worked yesterday morning. The Big Boss came in to see me as a result of my rant at my appraisal earlier in the week. I feel most reassured there is now a proper plan in place to deal with Nightmare Colleague and better about having ranted as I did feel very guilty about performing …
Home Educating Parent leaves boy, 9, Home Alone
Everyone who didn’t have to be up for work this morning slept in. Davies is clearly incubating the NicCold although Scarlett isn’t showing any signs yet. We did kitchen clearing, chicken tending, laundry processing, breakfast eating, tea drinking, dressed-getting and then sat down to watch Life together. The kids are rubbish at watching something they’ve …
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