We were supposed to go to the regular local HE meet at Pulborough Brooks this morning but when Scarlett woke me at 730am I made an early decision that the weather was looking far too wild and wet and windy to be traipsing round outdoor nature reserves. Tasha had sent me a text yesterday to …
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Dolce et decorum est pro patria mori?
Davies and Scarlett were at the Remembrance Day parade today with Badgers. I’d realised when it was first mentioned that it was the weekend we had Kirsty and James staying and then that it was also the morning after a late night from Claudia’s birthday party but it’s the first year they’ve been around to …
Swimming Saturday
Saturday morning seemed to drift past us with playing (children) and drinking tea and chatting (adults). Kirsty and I went through her seed stash and she very kindly passed some on to me ready for spring sowing. We had lunch and then Kirsty and I went up to the allotment with the four children leaving …
FFS Friday
I worked all day Friday. Ady was at QVC for the day so Mum had Davies and Scarlett all day. After a shaky few times of having them things seem to have improved and all was well. They’d been for a long walk along the beach, through Lancing and home again including a stop along …
AMT
I seem to be getting twice hit most months – PMT and then AMT (actual menstrual tension) which is a combination of being pissed off that I have stomach cramps and pissed off that it wasn’t Ady or the children being extra annoying, it was me being extra-stroppy that caused a bad day two days …
Fishing in the rivers of life
(Bet LovelyEm knows what song that’s from) Work for me this morning while Davies and Scarlett went over to Liza and Andrew’s. Ady managed to arrange his day so he could take them for me but as I got straight up and helped him chivy them out of the house I spent the half hour …
NKG -The parent who likes to saaaaaaaay…. YES!
Anyone remember that TSB advert from back when the TSB was just the TSB and wasn’t part of one huge great big bank with 47 initials? The children woke me this morning at about 730am by playing the Crazy Frog dvd fairly loudly and obviously leaping around dancing to it downstairs. Having been intolerant and …
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Intolerant Monday
I’ve not been in the mood for being anything today; wife, mother, friend, cat or chicken owner. Nothing! I had booked a collection of a parcel today which I’d not yet wrapped but was due for collecting any time between 9am and 5pm so I had to be up early enough to have drunk sufficient …
Splash
Dad came over this morning and he and Ady went off to meet a tree feller we know who my Dad has been getting logs from for years. It’s a win:win situation really, he cuts down the logs and rents land to unload them onto and every so often burns them up there to get …
Whizz bang whoosh!
I worked this morning. It was a day when the levels of busyness were inconsistent and we veered between queuing chaos and dead quiet. I spent some time going through local magazines and noting contact details of various local clubs, groups and societies as one my current jobs is to maintain the catalogue of information …
Halloweening
The children and I had a quiet morning and afternoon at home. I was still feeling rather shell shocked from yesterday and we’ve done a fair bit of out and abouting already this week so the children welcomed the chance to play at home. I borrowed a selection of documentary type dvds from work, one …
things to do, places to go update
Just a couple of months of the year left so I thought I’d review how we’ve got on with our stuff we wanted to do this year list: Things we want to do this year: South Downs Planetarium – I’ve wanted to go here for years and as it says suitable for 6 plus on …
Funny Old Day
Ady was home with Davies and Scarlett in the morning. Ady did some gardening, Scarlett played with the chickens and Davies was spirograph-ing apparently. My Mum arrived at lunchtime and when I came home all was peaceful and happy. My day was rather less smooth 🙁 . I arrived at work to hear the news …
Notpartying
After a really bad night’s sleep (Scarlett awake, Davies in our bed, Ady deciding he’d just get up and do the washing up at about 4am – noisily!) I spent ages trying to fit into some new boots that had arrived in the post yesterday in the style of one of Cinderella’s ugly sisters and …
Being an enabler
Today we had Mel, Liam and Lily coming over to play. We really only see them during half terms and school holidays these days as they have loads of after school stuff going on, as do we and Mel works 2 days a week as do I. Their weekends are even more full than ours …
Stuck for a title
The hour thing is messing with my head, as it always does for at least a week every spring and autumn. This morning was all bright and sunny and lovely so we headed out earlier than planned for a quick charity shop perusal before our meet up at the park. Scarlett’s winter coat is too …
Quieter day
I was completely confused with the hour this morning as my clock is radio controlled and had already sorted itself out with going back an hour but I’d not realised so was thinking it said 9am, really 8am but actually it was 9am that would have been 10am or something. Both children came to snuggle …
In sickness and in health…
Mum and Dad were here for the day yesterday to look after Davies and Scarlett. They went to Arundel and walked round a lake and fed ducks and moorhens, back to their house for lunch and then went to visit Great Granny before finishing at McDonalds for tea. Scarlett went to bed about 11pm and …
Blogging by the wrong person
really today – I think the other 3 Gees had far more interesting days :). Fortunately Ali blogged about the smaller people’s pm. I was at work all day – this morning that entailed doing the banking – two of us count up all the money, replace the floats (there are 3 tills at work) …
Round, round, get around we get around
Off to Chichester this morning for another filmeducation showing, this time of The Prince of Eygpt which I had no idea was such an old film (made in 1998). I suppose not being a parent back then I wouldn’t have had any radar for Disney or animated films, I wasn’t someone who bothered with them …