It was Pulborough Brooks day today. It always seems to come round much more frequently than monthly. It’s one of the few local ‘organised’ things that we almost always attend, mostly because there is no certainty who will turn up and I quite like that aspect to it. We’d been planning to take Tasha and …
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Microcamping
As Ady dubbed it. Not far from home, just one night, minimal packing, no planning at all! On about Tuesday I realised we didn’t have anything at all planned for this weekend. This is incredibly unusual for us and actually had only come about because I’ve swapped Saturdays for a while so should have been …
Park. And stuff.
It’s all go being a minor local HE celeb you know 😉 I’ve now had 2 people putting themselves forward for the role as my PA which made me laugh. Not the notion that I’d be needing a PA you understand – that is entirely plausible. I’ll be needing my phone answered, my emails replied …
Yawn
Work day for me today and an all day-er with Nightmare Colleague (henceforth known as NC). I had morning teabreak with her and should have been on lunchbreak with her too but simply couldn’t face it so took my sandwiches and a book and went and sat in my car instead. Other than that it …
Wednesday
We all slept in this morning thanks to a very late night last night. We rushed around getting dressed, breakfasted and kitchen cleared before nipping out to pick up Tasha and co to bring them back here. We’d not long been in when my food shopping arrived so Tasha (and Vinnie) very kindly assisted in …
I suspect this should actually be about 3 blogposts…
Or even about 15 given how verbose I can be at the best of times ;). And today I had it brought home to me just how quickly I speak, which probably goes some way to explaining my one word, when seven would do approach to blogging ;). I had a really bad night’s sleep …
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Oh I can’t think of a title
So I’ll not bother. Morningtime stuff included dealing with chickens – definitely 2 cockerels and 5 hens in the chicks -woohoo. They’re doing well outside and a mini-integration with me setting one free for a while under supervision proved okay. Our plan is to keep one cockerel and four of the hens and to sell …
Maybe it would be better if they were just swingers…
instead of being vegetarians with dinner party grandeur instead! Would wife-swapping sex be better or worse than having to eat lentils last time and broad beans this time? Would I feel any less dirty, ashamed and sullied? 😆 I worked yesterday morning. I’ve swapped Saturdays for the indefinite future as there is a staff shortage …
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Work all day for me today and every minute dragged today 🙁 There is a new roof being put on the library which has already run over it’s schedule by about 4 weeks (and counting) and has been blighted by very heavy rain which has leaked through in places where it wasn’t waterproofed, ruined 100s …
Imaginary Friends
If you are Em or Michelle please feel free to consider this blog post a piece of creative writing. For the rest of you simply feel envious that we got to see Joyce 🙂 I woke up this morning and with a lazy stretch thought happily to myself ‘Joyce is coming today’ :). Then I …
You couldn’t just do me a favour could you…
Due to me being rubbish at planning childcare past the end of our hoildays we ended up with noone to look after Davies and Scarlett this morning. I did do some attempting to sort it with various asks but didn’t manage anything. In the end, predictably, two different people could have happily helped if I’d …
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Must note down…
A couple of made me laugh moments from D and S over the last week or so. S noticed a dog wearing some panniers at FoH who also happened to be a breed with no tail. She said to me ‘Look Mummy, that dog’s got no tail!’ I replied ‘oh yes’ and was trying to …
It’s a tiring business all this facilitatin’
Scarlett’s been playing with her aquabeads / bindeez / whatever they’re called the last couple of days creating her own designs and sometimes using the idea cards that came with the pack. She made a few this morning and then had to wait while they dried before she could use the boards again so I …
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Monday – readjusting to home
In contrast to the previous week today has been *very* low key. We all slept in and felt much the better for it (apart from poor Ady of course who was back to the real world again). Once everyone was breakfasted and dressed we headed out to Boots and Sainsburys for bite treatment and food …
Sunday – FoH Day two
The weather started well which was a bonus and so I sat and painted my nails while drinking my first cup of tea instead of being more urgent about packing up. I’d said I’d be happy to get to FoH for midday and we were nearly a whole hour earlier than that so we still …
Saturday – FoH day one
We realised when we arrived at Wicksteed that neither Ady or I had charged our cameras up so we knew we’d be on limited photo supplies and were conscious of not running out before the end if possible. We ended up just using one camera a day, mostly Ady which means there are a lot …
Friday – Wicksteed Park
We awoke to bright sunshine, but with threatening clouds on the horizon so got the tent up and sorted asap. Amazing how much difference already having the camping mats and sleeping bags ready to just bring across from C&H’s tent made somehow. We had some comedy windbreak errection moments but it was otherwise smooth. The …
Thursday – a very long day indeed
A mental day! I worked all day and it felt very hardgoing with my sleep deficit. 5o’clock took a very long time to arrive. In the morning Barbara and Chris took all five children to the beach. From feedback it was lots of fun and very seaweedy! 😆 My Mum came over in the afternoon …
Wednesday – fresh air and exercise
We’d had a plan to go to Paradise Park on Wednesday and meet up with Ali and Freya, but they couldn’t make it and in the end no-one (well certainly not Barbara and I anyway) was up that early!. I made pancakes for a lateish lunch with the eggs that the girls had found in …
Tuesday – swimming
A lazy start to the morning. We were all up before 10am . The children spent a fair bit of time in the garden. It was overall a very harmonious few days between the five children even though the dynamics have changed a lot in the nearly 5 years they’ve known each other, with some …