I went to bed really early last night (it was before 11pm) and a decent night’s sleep had me feeling much better this morning. Ady OTOH did the reverse and while he is normally the one in bed before 11pm he stayed up to watch Pompey playing football and finally came to bed around 1am. …
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Being Nicola
Today was a work day for me. I had felt crap last night, had a bad nights sleep and was up early this morning as my nose was too blocked to lie in bed any longer and Ady suggested I ring in sick. This had not even occurred to me as an option tbh and …
Sounds like fun
This morning we were super efficient. We had to catch the 839am train from Lancing to Victoria so were all up at 730am, kids were breakfasted and dressed and had their Badger uniforms packed in a bag, I was dressed, tea’d and had a picnic for all packed and we were out of the door …
Domestic Tuesday
First thing Davies and Scarlett did some brio-ing. They don’t actually play with the track once it’s set up much but they do spend ages building elaborate and complicated tracks. It’s interesting to watch. I leafed through some allotment books and offered to read them a story but they declined. My food shop arrived about …
Active Sandwich
We had a fairly laid back morning here. The plan was to do the food shopping for the month today and get on with the laundry backlog. In practise neither the children or I felt remotely like walking round the supermarket for hours so I spent a couple of hours battling against the asda online …
Shootin’ and fishin’ Sunday
Continuing the self-sufficient-ish theme of the weekend we went up to Tom’s for a day of fishing and shooting. The original plan had been to get there early enough to join them for some actual shooting but we had to go and collect a washing machine in the morning instead. My Dad has inherited a …
Self sufficient Saturday
I drank rather too much wine last night and then around 530am Candle tried to jump up onto the bed, missed and scratched my arm as she scrabbled about. I woke with a raging thirst so got up to get a drink and then couldn’t get back to sleep so when Tarly woke just after …
It’s F F F Friday!
Which I only got my head round at about 4pm when I suddenly remembered it was Rainbows tonight when someone was being all Friday-ish at work. At home Ady was here until 1030am, then Mum came over for an hour or so and played drafts with Davies and got the children all whipped up about …
It’s the same room but everything’s different
Up and about early today so we decided to go and continue the Boot Quest before soft play. The place we used to go to in Worthing was called ‘Fun Junction’ but it is now called PLAY which is an acronym for Play, Leisure, Agility, Youth. I’m guessing they came up with the PLAY bit …
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Yawn.
This morning was most odd. Ady woke me to help get Davies and Scarlett ready to go and I waved them off (after frantic checking of old emails and texting Liza to remember her address as now I actually know where it is to get to I have freed up the bit of my brain …
New normal
Ady was off to Birmingham today to a gardening trade show so he left the house at stupid o’clock. He didn’t get back home again til stupid o’clock either but at least he’s already now worked his hours to have Friday morning off. And he’s taking Davies and Scarlett over to Liza’s for me in …
These boots were made for walking…
I had a quiet day at home planned today as I had various things I needed to get done and I thought we could do some snuggling with books too. I spent some time online applying for passport renewals for us all which led to a long conversation about passports and travelling abroad. I found …
Haven’t we been here before?
Candle (our cat) appears to have gone blind, all but overnight. She has been a bit odd for a while now I think of it but seems to be struggling with very limited eyesight, particularly at night. She is very old – we have had her for 14 years and the RSPCA said she was …
Nighttime excitement, wild partying and the like
I was woken at 4am by Ady hissing ‘Nic! Nic! There’s a fox!’ at me and then dashing, naked out of our bedroom down the stairs. I hung (also naked) out of the bedroom window and sure enough although I couldn’t see it (dark and no contact lenses) I could hear all sorts of screeching …
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Friday I’m in love
All a bit ‘through a haze’ today really thanks to hormones and this I can’t believe it’s not a cold (Ali that made me remember not quite your knee wellies which made me laugh 😆 ). I tried to have a lie in and catch up on some sleep but the children had other ideas …
It’s the most wonderful time of the year…
Work day for me today. My cold that doesn’t seem to be a cold after all but might yet progress into being a cold seemed to go into remission a bit today which was good. We have a new member of staff who only started 2 weeks ago and was off sick last week. She …
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Sneezing Wednesday
I was in bed at around midnight last night which is becoming early for me. I don’t want to be in bed much later but as I don’t seem to need any more than about 7 hours sleep I don’t want to be in bed much earlier either as I’d rather be around late at …
Full up Tuesday
I had my list to work through this morning and with the exception of a couple of things I got everything done including laundry, baking and a couple of emails. I should get the rest of the stuff done tomorrow and I also managed an additional task of clearing out the shoeboxes in our hall …
Productive?
Stuff I need to do today: Lots of laundry did as much as would fit on the line and already have first load washed ready to hang out in the morning. Sort out finances to ring CCCS and update with them Use up the cooking apples that need cooking 🙂 Blackberries already taken out for …
Monday on Monday
if I type quickly enough :). A slower start with Ady waking me at 9am when he rang and me then waking Davies and Scarlett. 😳 We breakfasted, they DS’d, I drank a full pot of tea, communed a bit with the chickens, got stuff out of the freezer, planned dinner, processed some laundry and …