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 …
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Ah yes, blogging.
Saturday I worked in the morning. It was pretty busy. I spent some time on the counter, some time on the desk and some time sending emails to try and drum up ticket sales for the Anne Perry event next month and putting up more posters to advertise it within the library. I came home …
Soft Play
Things that annoyed me today: 1. Unloading the washing machine to find Davies had put trousers in the wash without emptying his pockets and the machine and all the ‘clean’ clothes were now covered in tissues and bits of sticks. Couldn’t be arsed to re-wash so shook everything out very hard as I pegged it …
Do you have any books about museums?
A whole day at work for me today. And I had a really good day too :). Lots of laughs, lots of banter with colleagues and borrowers, I spent ages with a dyslexic man who wanted the whole series of Indian in the cupboard on audio book as he remembered his mum reading them to …
You’ll never guess where we went today…
yep, to a museum ;). This time it was Amberley Working Musuem. We’ve been before a few years ago when the kids were pretty small and I’d remember it as good but pricey with not that much to do. We’d also been years ago to some bike thing back in the days when we arrived …
So then on Tuesday we went to a museum
Because we’re all about the museums this week, us :). We needed to return the geology loan box and so last week when trying desperately to coordinate diaries with Julie we decided to meet up at Littlehampton museum to do that, get together and all have a proper look round the museum too. I had …
The Smoke
I checked the train times for London last night before I went to bed – 839am (the one we normally get when we’re doing the am RI sessions), 9.09am and 10.10am. There are more of course but these were the straight through, no change ones to Victoria. I kind of knew we wouldn’t really make …
Too many mothers spoil the day…
in a too many cooks type way. When you are married to someone like Ady who tends to cosset and run around after you rather a lot anyway it can actually be quite hard to make mothers day feel different to a normal day.I did request that the radio NOT be turned on in the …
Saturday Stuff
Feeling uninspired about a title. Another early start this morning to be in Newhaven for Davies’ Young Archaeologists Club at 10am (hereby known as YAC). The programme said “Managing water – the old Tide Mills. We will be visiting the Bishopstone Tide Mills site whose history and archaeology stretches from the 1760s Tide Mill through …
Too many acronyms to remember
I was on a first aid course at Bognor Library today. I’ve always grabbed whatever training is on offer in every job I’ve had. Much though I might take the piss out of the whole ‘bigger picture, outside the box’ tosh I am quite passionate about training and do believe that well delivered, relevant training …
Contented sigh…
Another beautiful spring morning with the sun shining :). We met Lucy and The Rs at Highdown Gardens at 11ish and had a brief wander round a small part of it before stopping for lunch. One of my favourite little sub-gardens is the Millennium garden there which has a sundial. I love sundials, they are …
And that was Wednesday
I worked this morning. Ady was home with D and S but under the pretext of being at the dentist so I think he was fielding phonecalls a lot :(. Work was good, busy as we were down to just 3 of us when Frankie had to leave to collect her son from school following …
Tantrums and triumphs
I can’t remember what we did for the first couple of hours this morning – although I know I spent ages cleaning out under the keys on my laptop with a thin pointy thing – the dust!!!! I quickly made some banana and choc chip muffins as we had no ‘nice’ food in the house …
Monday with Mother
As I’ve mentioned previously my Mum is currently on a Being A Good Mother To Nicola kick which makes me go on a Being A Good Daughter To My Mum kick so I rang her the other week to arrange a few days out with her. This is always slightly awkward as I don’t want …
Library Display
Just wanted to post up some pictures of the display Davies and Scarlett did for the library as part of their RSPB Wildlife Action Awards. I took the display down on Saturday as it’s been up for the 2 weeks we had the space booked for. I’ve had loads of direct compliments and nice comments …
Weekend schmeekend
I stayed up way too late on Friday night crying and laughing at Comic Relief and then had to get up for work yesterday morning so felt rather spaced out for most of the morning. Infact most of the morning passed in a bit of a blur. I like my two morning shifts – Wednesday …
Stones an’ stuff
Scarlett did indeed continue to have a rough nights sleep and ended up in bed with me while Ady decamped to her bed. Not at all sure what that was about and she’s been slightly wobbly today too. I was up earlier than normal as I registered in my half asleep mind that it was …
With no particular blog to post…
Work all day for me. It went fairly quickly; I spent some time on the enquiry desk but didn’t really have many enquiries as it was quiet while I was on there. I spent some time chasing up reservations that have been outstanding for over a month (we get a print out) and some time …
Quickish Blogish
I had a plan to take Davies and Scarlett out for the day somewhere today. In celebration of everyone finally feeling better (see how I’ll jinx that for tomorrow now ;)) I decided last night in the bath to go somewhere with them. I rang my Mum who is currently on a Being A Better …
The one in which we re-enter the outside world
During the week I mean. We seem to manage fine during weekends but I’ve been hankering after our weekday lifestyle for, ooh, days ;). So we breakfasted and dressed and headed over to Littlehampton museum where I’d arranged by email to collect a loan box on some geology exhibits. We found the museum really easily …
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