I had a really bad nights sleep, which was unfortunate as I didn’t go to bed til after 1am, didn’t get to sleep til way after 2am and was awake again at 730am as I had work. 🙁 I headed off to work where I’ve not been for over a week thanks to rota deviations …
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which is as close to a title as I can think of. We spent the morning at home. I did some laundry and various online stuff. Davies and Scarlett played with the animation station having been inspired anew by the W&G thing yesterday. Ady picked up an adaptor for it today too so I forsee …
Cracking Bangs!
Off to The Smoke today. I’ve decided to make the most of any RIt trips to London with something else planned during that day, so today was RI in the morning for The Bigger Bang. (Dr Hal brings his giant chemistry set to the Royal Institution in this explosive, colourful and fun Science Show demonstrating …
We’re quite busy really…
Ady was up at 430am to go to Birmingham. I did wake when he got up and didn’t really get properly back to sleep before Scarlett wriggled into bed with me at 7am ish. She is dreadful for not lying still and wants to clamber all over me and kiss me which is charming and …
Monday Monday
Ever conscious of the clock ticking down to Caz and Bid leaving for NZ when Caz posted up about a meet up today at Littlehampton Peace to celebrate International Peace Day we decided to go along and snatch hours in their company while we still can. I’d cancelled our intended RI visit today anyway last …
Great British Sunday
Last night Ady and Scarlett were talking about Car Boot Sale-ing today so Davies and I said we’d go along too. I’m not at all sure what possessed me to trade in a lie in for tramping round a field viewing other peoples unwanted tat and offering them money for it but clearly I was …
Raystede and Wood Fair
An early start for the ailing Goddards this morning as Davies had YACs. This months meeting was at Bentley for the annual Wood Fair. I’m still not sure precisely what they were doing as they were warned to be dressed for messy crafts but Davies seemed to spend most of his time wandering around the …
Where did Friday go then?
Well certainly the early part of it passed while I was sleeping ;). So as first thing as it got round these parts Davies was making his lego x wing fighter thing. He’s mostly spent today doing that and mostly without any assistance. He says he really enjoyed following the instructions and seeing the pile …
Part time Nicola
This morning started pretty badly. I would say shittily, quite literally. 🙁 Candle, who is very old – we’ve had her for 15 years and she was at least 2 when we got her, has been blind for about a year and protests in a rather disgusting manner at us going away on holiday. She …
Not back to school picnic
I had stuff to do this morning having been running (well limping maybe) to catch up with myself after the holiday and birthday stuff, so Scarlett waking me up at 930am was not how I had planned the day starting. Must have needed the sleep, but still… Got everyone breakfasted and dressed and we headed …
Productive, despite ailments
Scarlett got into bed with me this morning, which is always lovely. But she then described, in great detail, how horrible my breath smelt, which was less lovely, so I got up to clean my teeth! 😆 I’d promised Davies we’d explore his animation station today but first I had some online stuff to get …
Happy Birthday Davies!
I will do a proper 9th birthday post on a page at some point soon but if anyone wants to read that it’ll be on the side bar rather than in the body of the blog. Clearly it will be mush-ridden and sloppy so probably not for most of you ;). Today started far too …
Jump, jump, jump…
I think it was the eve of my ninth birthday when I went to Brighton for the day with my Mum and she bought me a new winter coat and wellies. The coat was blue and the wellies were red and I loved them both. When we got home I wore them all round the …
Bring on the autumn!
Sunday I had intended to be on the road for 11 and arriving by midday but as I didn’t make it out of bed until 1030am (clearly I needed it!) our departure was rather delayed. In the event it really didn’t matter much and I left first and arrived just after 130 I think. We’d …
Work, some shopping and a dash of bad-temperedness
I very nearly overslept this morning – I turned my alarm off and went back to sleep. Ady woke me at 840am with ‘are you not going to work then?’. Up, dressed, tea made with tepid water and at work for 9am still! Did make me feel all wrong-footed all morning though. I did some …
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You are the bearer of unconditional things…
Our day had a bit of a soundtrack today, might add some of the lyrics in and see if anyone can name the artist, or you know, ignore that element of the blogpost completely -up to you really. I had to rouse both children this morning – we’re still operating on weekend guest time and …
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Thursday never looking back
Work for me this morning. Lazy, didn’t go to sleep til ridiculous o’clock children just barely scrambled out of bed before I left 😆 I started 15 minutes earlier than normal but finished at 130pm rather than 5pm as they owed me my prorata equivalent of one day off for Bank Holiday morning – I …
HFW FFS!
Off to Ali’s this morning, via collecting a very PINK Barbie coat that the woman I collected a load of freecycle girls clothes from had emailed me to say she also had. I suspected Scarlett would screw her nose up at it and indeed she did but we collected it anyway as we already had …
Out of practise
We’d planned a picnic lunch at the beach with Tasha and co today, for which we were predictably running late. I did do laundry, chickens,washing up, making picnic and checking emails all before we left though. The mention of beach picnics on twitter by both Tasha and I clearly bounced off some satellite or other …
Blimey, would you look at that, it’s September!
I’m not a big fan of Bank Holidays really. Ady generally works them and everywhere is full of people. Urgh, people! The kids and I very often seem to end up at my parents for the day on Bank Holidays so today having rung to check they were in we did just that. First I …
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