Work for me this morning. A very lazy day really; for the first half hour I did some tidying and chatted to S who usually runs the homework club and does some relief work so was covering someone on holiday today. She’s really interesting – ex-teacher who has an interesting take on stuff. We talked …
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Still floppy
and stiff, in a bizarre all things at once sort of way! Not sure where this morning went really although I did answer the phone twice – once to my Mum and once to Lynda, both of which were longish phonecalls. We finally got out of the house to go to Tasha’s but stopped for …
Being Nicola today
Work for me today. It’s been quite an enjoyable if slightly frustrating at times sort of day. I’ve spent all of it either on the counter or the enquiry desk with a wide range of enquiries including ‘how to spell unequivocal’ from my favourite drunk who was typing an email to someone. He said he …
Grow your own adventure
Everyone slept in this morning. I was vaguely aware of Ady bumbling around downstairs until later than normal and then Tarly came and got into bed with me. I woke again about 930am and had to wake both children at 10am. Neither of them had particularly late nights, just still really wiped out from The …
And does your diary have a space for writing what you like about your friends?
Davies and Scarlett have been at that stage of feeling well enough to want to play together but not quite well enough to pull it off without annoying each other today. 🙁 This morning was a round of letting out and feeding adult chickens, feeding children, checking on chicks, putting away washing, sorting more laundry …
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The one where we actually get out of the house
I had a long and much needed lie in this morning. The first nights sleep in a week when I havent’ been sleeping on a floor or awake coughing for most of the night! I woke to the sounds of happy and noisy children so knew long before I made it downstairs that they were …
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More of the same. With added chocolate
We bought Davies and Scarlett one small Easter egg each, a couple of packets of small eggs to ‘hide’ around the lounge and a small present each for Easter. I hate all the excess packaging that comes with Easter eggs and refuse to get drawn into it being some sort of mini-Christmas type celebration but …
Move along, there’s nothing to see
Another day, another loads of blowing noses, coughing and feeling ill 🙁 Davies is all but back to normal, I feel pretty much okay and I think Ady inbetween being Superman is feeling on the up too. Poor Tarly is feeling rough today though and took herself off for a nap in the middle of …
Aborted photoblog day
I was woken by Tarly crying this morning. I knew as soon as I heard it that it meant she had gone down with The Bug Of Doom and sure enough she has. She came and got into bed with me for a while but we were both up early and Davies wasn’t far behind …
Handing it over to you.
After a bizarre early morning conversation with Ady who woke up with me at 5am ish when I got up to go to the loo about why the cockerel hadn’t started crowing yet and then laying awake waiting until he did I went back to sleep til about 9am ish. I woke feeling better but …
And then there were four…
Davies had a better night although I didn’t sleep very well as I kept waking to blow my nose. I was woken by Scarlett coming to tell me that Davies was being sick 🙁 He wasn’t, he was just coughing up flem but still not the most delightful start to the day. I made breakfast …
Keeping up appearances
Things did not improve after last night’s post. At Davies’ wobbly request I took my camping mat and sleeping bag up to his bedroom and slept on his floor. I spent the first hour or so reassuring him I was still there every five minutes or so and trying to read my book. He finally …
So then on Monday we had people to stay with us…
I had a really horrid dream just before I woke up this morning. It was, as dreams often are, rather disjointed and odd but the jist of it was that I’d left Davies and Scarlett at swimming lessons and then forgotten to go and pick them up and the teacher had rung to remind me. …
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That poor cat!
Saturday An early start to the morning to get everything packed in the car and Davies and Scarlett to Wildlife Explorers for 10am. We did it but we cut it fine ;). The weather was really misty and a bit grey and horrid and as we didn’t really want to get muddy walking round and …
Iron Man and the wheels on the bus
Work for me today. Ady has some sort of issue with my mother at the moment so at the last minute decided to have the kids with him all day and take them to work with him doing price surveys. It all seems rather cutting off his nose to spite his face (not that spending …
caves and mines
both kids are really interested in mines so I’d like to try and visit one or two if poss. Some links to explore more later: Reigate Mines open days National Coal Mining Museum NT gold mine in Camarthenshire King Edward mine museum, Cornwall Morwellham Quay – also in Cornwall Clearwell caves, Forest of Dean
Not craft fair
Today was supposed to be the day Tasha and I did the craft fair. So I’d kept the day free for all that last minute stuff (read doing everything) but then it got postponed. So Tasha and I decided to get together anyway. First thing I did some washing sorting, made some cookies and was …
And on Wednesday…
Early start for everyone this morning. Ady took Davies and Scarlett over to Liza’s as he can afford to be late for work and I can’t so we don’t have to drop them off quite so early. Also his petrol is free ;). I was up coaxing the breakfasting and getting dressed along and waving …
Paradise Park
A slower start to the day and the benefit of the kids getting older is we no longer worry about them being noisy or troublesome or indeed up too early these days! I came downstairs about 930am, did things like put chickens out and sort breakfast for Davies and coordinate them getting dressed. We all …
British Wildlife Centre
After a really good day trip to the British Wildlife Centre last year we’ve been meaning to go back for ages. They have ‘school’ trips for the bargain price of £5 per person which looked like a good way to go back with friends. I’d hoped I could reach the minimum number of 20 people …