was today so I booked us into the two farms we visited last year again as we’d enjoyed them both. First was Brickpitts Organic farm which is an organic sheep farm with some arable organic farming too. It was nice to see how well they’re doing and that since last year they’ve bought another 25 …
Author Archives: Nic
Professional frustration
I struggled to get out of bed this morning to go to work, particularly when Scarlett put her arms round my neck and hung off me saying ‘don’t go to work Mummy, I haven’t had enough time with you this week…’ 🙁 Getting up and heading off to work within half an hour for 3 …
Horsey, horsey…
Work all day for me today and it was one of those days that dragged and seemed very s l o w indeed. I did Baby Rhyme time in the morning which is suffering from having altogether too many toddlers and pre-schoolers and not nearly enough, ie none, babies. It’s supposed to be for under …
The power of three
I slept in this morning which I felt way better for having done and when I did get up I was ready to face the day properly :). I let the chickens out, did the kids a second breakfast (they’d been scoffing various things already), tidied the kitchen up, sorted some laundry and then sat …
Training and cataloguing
I was at Worthing library this morning for a training session on the new computer systems that are being installed in the libraries over the next few months. Ady was home with Davies and Scarlett so rather than drive and pay for parking he ran me in. We also picked up S, my colleague who …
Feet don’t touch the ground on a Tuesday
Up and out first thing to Forest School. We were cutting it fine this morning but fortunately everyone else seemed to be too (or maybe it’s now running on Home Ed time? 🙂 ) Davies and Scarlett quickly found their mates and barely needed to say goodbye before they headed off up the hill. I …
Musical Monday
Off to The Smoke today for the LSO concert at The Barbican. We always toy with walking to the station when we go to London, it’s only about a 15 minute walk but the prospect of the walk at the end of a long day and long train journey is always unappealing so we drove …
Sunny Sunday
We had a plan this morning to be up earlyish and get to the allotment before it got too hot up there. Ady woke me with a cup of tea at about 930am so that blew that idea, until I got downstairs all ready to go in my old jeans and he told me he’d …
Spending Saturday
I worked this morning. I was fairly quiet and low key.There’s been a job swap of all the little tasks we take responsibility for so I get to learn a few new things over the next few weeks which is always nice. I had a bit of training today on the overdue procedures and I’m …
Friday already?
I woke up just after 8am this morning and considered and intended getting up but must have fallen asleep again as next thing I knew it was 830am and the doorbell was ringing. I ran downstairs, pulling on a dressing gown which I must have removed at the same time as a nightie last time …
Goddards and Gooderhams
I worked this morning. It was really busy as being closed for Monday seems to make everything back up and remain chaotic through the week. I guess in terms of deliveries and reservations and things there probably is 6 days work to get through in 5 on a bank holiday week there. It was my …
Things we learnt today…
I’d booked Davies and Scarlett into a Pulborough Brooks event this morning called ‘Hiss, slither, hop and croak’ about reptiles and amphibians. I wasn’t sure if it was a staying with them or a kids only one as I booked it ages ago but they were whisked away while I was completing one of those …
Efficiency thy name is Nic
I intended a good long lie in this moring but was woken by Scarlett shouting at Davies and Davies coming uptairs crying about it. He was justifiably upset as she was accusing him of something he hadn’t done but crying seemed rather extreme I thought. I decided to get up and deal with it rather …
All weekends should be like this
Saturday In theory we were all getting up at 7am and leaving the house by 8am. In practise some of us were up at 7am, the rest were up by 8am and we left the house at 9.18am 😆 We had an okay run up although there were several slow bits on both the M25 …
Camps
Just wanted to get some dates written down of various things so people can express interest if they want to: July 4th – 11th camping at Shell Island. you can’t book and if the weather was to be dreadful we might change our minds 😉 We’re planning to take in CAT while we’re there but …
A break?
Off to work for me today.I had a really good day which was a nice end to what has been a shaky week. I wouldn’t normally be so full of myself but I’ve had some crappy moments this week so I’m going to copy out some of the comments I was given on my personal …
It’s not you, it’s me
I found myself being intolerant again today although I think I mostly either hid it or got over myself. We picked up Tasha and co and went to Amberley working museum again. We had a really good day there a month or so ago with my Mum and I’d been quite keen to go back …
Stuff. And nonsense
Suspect I’ve used that title before. I had a good morning at work. The first half hour was spent doing some Speed Shelving with my friend S as there was loads left over from last night so we set ourselves a mission of getting as much cleared as possible before we opened. Then I spent …
Monday and Tuesday
A combination of a bit of a blogging apathy and the wireless internet connection crashing meant no blog post yesterday. MondayWe had half a plan to go to the not bluebell walk place for a bluebell walk that may well have been a not bluebell walk as the bluebells bloomed early this year and I …
Clan of the Lovelies
We travelled to Ipswich today to attend Eve and Rei’s seventh birthday party with a Stone Age theme. Lovely to celebrate 7 (eek, how did that happen?) with them, lovely to see Lovely Em’s Lovely parents, meet Lovely Oscar and lovely most of all to see LovelyEm 🙂 The children disappeared into the gang of …