I managed to do my traditional birthday post for Scarlett while it was actually her birthday (infact before she was aware it was her birthday actually) so for those of you who like reading my sentimental stuff feel free to have a peep at that :). Scarlett’s main birthday gift from us is yet to …
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NicCamps does Christmas
Monday The drive to Helmsley was very easy, we’d gone from The Babs’ house last time so the route was almost the same and I’d remembered the nearest Tesco was in a place beginning with ‘T’ that you turned left instead of right at a roundabout before Helmsley at so when we saw signs for …
Weekend one
Saturday – I worked in the morning (blimey that seems a long time ago now, far more than just a week). Ady and the kids packed the car up. I had been all organised and packed one bag for the weekend and another for the week but despite explicit directions Ady didn’t manage to transfer …
Thanksgiving
which obviously we don’t do, what with not being American and all ;). But there has been a thread on a forum I’m on about if you were to celebrate Thanksgiving what would you be giving thanks for and quite aside from the usual stuff about being happy, healthy, solvent etc. my big thanks would …
Festive. And fun…
Work for me today.All day. And when I say all day I really mean all day. Ady was home in the morning – they did some pheasant plucking (really should teach Davies Pheasant Pluckers Son ;)) and prepared the house for the onslaught of a month’s food shop delivery, which never turned up. Closer investigation …
Baby it’s cold outside
Efficiency R us at our house this morning and we were out by about 930am. We needed petrol and Sainsburys petrol station was closed due to ‘technical issues’ which meant we played petrol chicken to the next nearest garage. We then went to the feed store which is near the stables for layers pellets (big …
A day of many T’s
I like days when I can get up, dressed, sort out stuff like washing and chickens and breakfast for children and be sitting down drinking a second cup of tea before we actually have to leave the house. Of course I could do this every day but it would involve getting up at a respectable …
Cashpoint’s working again
As in, we have money in the bank account to withdraw from it. November was a *very* tight month and we have managed the last fortnight on about 20quid. I did fork out £40 for tickets for two theatre shows for later in December and get both kids winter coats but I’m not altogether sure …
Shhhh secret blog
Not only is it passworded it also appears several people who are supposed to be able to come and read it can’t see it either. Soon it’ll only be me, talking to myself. At least I never skim read it 😉 This morning we slobbed around rather as the weather was dreadful – pouring rain, …
Being Productive
some of us more than others ;). Ady has: * moved all the roof tiles that were nestling round the back of the house in the chicken area and providing a place of refuge for rats aswell as taking up lots of space. They are now stacked infront of the garage and we’ll have one …
Yeah…
It would be more considered and deep but it’s Friday night and I’ve had a lot of wine ;). At home Ady was here this morning and they did some poultry maintenance (chicks are spending their first night outside tonight and I’m feeling a bit ‘mother hen’ about it all), some wood chopping and some …
Child led Thursday
I had a really horrible dream last night where Scarlett was kidnapped and a note left behind to say I didn’t deserve to have her. Clearly it was just a dream and it’s not something I believe but it was one of those horrible ones that stayed with me well into waking hours. Fortunately I …
work,park,car
Ady took Davies and Scarlett to Liza’s this morning so I had my odd hour at home all alone before work that I get once a fortnight. It’s strange. Nice, but strange. Work was good. It’s coming up to my 2 year anniversary of starting there which has passed in a flash. I think given …
Arsing computers
The usual round of morningy stuff (make breakfast, drink tea, hang washing out, put more on, let chickens out and feed them, collect chicks from indoors and put them outdoors for the day, persuade children to get dressed and etc.) and then I settled down to finish my CV while the children played with geomags. …
The Home Educators at home…
do bugger all, bugger all, bugger all, the Home Educators at home do bugger all. All day long. Well okay not bugger all but I do something think the term ‘home’ education is very misleading, we do far more gallivanting education than we do home education. I’ve done laundry, lots of laundry. A bit of …
Weekending
We appear to have suddenly developed a social life again lately which is nice, I’ve felt a bit sad, old and married this year! 😉 Yesterday morning I worked. I quite like Saturday mornings, as I work with two of my favourite colleagues and the two Saturday assistants. One, James, is really funny and nice …
Life and death
Davies and Scarlett spent loads of time this morning watching a Shaun the Sheep dvd I’d brought home from work for them. Davies is already getting excited about the new W&G film (matter of loaf and death). I spent some time looking over a report for Ady that he’s been battling with at work. Both …
Six dinner Sid
Ady was home this morning and he and the children got some old photos out. We have a big box of photos from pre-digital camera days which were deemed not quite good enough to go into the photo albums but Ady is a bit superstitious about destroying even quite crappy photos so they reside in …
It’s an atrium not at Adrian!
which was my QOTD to Tarly who was insisting that the bit on the heart being cut up was part of Daddy 😆 My second QOTD was from Helen and was to do with a vital organ not being much different to a uterus but I can’t remember all of it now! The children and …
Keeping promises
I’m trying hard to do plenty of picking up on clues from the children and responding to requests. Last week was a pretty crappy one with a few episodes of me and the children falling out that I’d really rather not be repeating regularly. Plenty to explain / justify / excuse it so I’m not …