With a sneaky edited timestamp to get this on the right day. I’ve done my eighth birthday post for those of you who like to wallow in sentimentality with me feel free to click the link to the page on the right, for those who don’t feel free to ignore it ;). Davies all but …
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NicCamps in tents aka September Camp
Sunday was a fairly slow start and we had a vague idea of a leaving the house time of 1130am which I think we still managed to miss so with a stop off at Asda along the way for first night provisions we arrived at the campsite around 3pm I think. We arrived on the …
Catch up before going away and needing to catch up again!
I went to bed at 1030pm last night which is simply unheard of. Even more shocking was that I left a glass of wine unfinished! 😯 I think the various 2am bedtimes this week from ragrugging finally caught up with me and as I had work this morning for once I did the sensible thing …
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Campers and day visitors
For next week: Weather: Sunday – cloudy Monday – sunny intervals Tuesday – light showers Wednesday – sunny intervals Thursday – sunny intervals Friday – cloudy with showers Butser information The visit is booked for Thursday 11th September. Arrival at 10am with money please for educational visit. Bring a packed lunch as it’s planned to …
Teeth, rugs and spreading the love
Work all day for me today. It was a really good day, very busy and with a good atmosphere. A combination of the rain driving people in off the street and a burst of back to school energy made for a lots of people milling about. I spent lots of time on the enquiry desk …
It’s like bloody April!
I’ve been sorely neglecting my online duties in favour of ragrugging. I suspect this gives me many, many muffin points but the rug is lovely :). It’s past halfway point now and I hope to finish it tomorrow. I’ve put out a plea for rags or stuff to cut into rags on freecycle so I’m …
Splash!
Today I have mostly ignored my children and spent the day chopping up old clothes into strips and then weaving them on my peg loom to make a rather gorgeous (not finished yet) rag rug. Aside from a nasty blister on my finger and a very sore thumb (my scissors are big and heavy and …
Monday Monday it was all I hoped it would be…
I do like my life :). Pretty much most of the time I can think of little else I would rather be doing or people I would rather be doing it with :). Today I had a bit of a recuperating lie in, cleared the laundry backlog, made a shopping list for the months food …
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Arrr me hearties
Friday morning was mostly taken up with gathering myself together to head up to The Beans for the weekend. I made some rice crispie cakes but was unable to muster ingredients or enthusiasm for further creativity in baking. And I ran out of paper cake cases which would have been needed if I’d moved on …
Defenders of anarchy
Today we met up with Mel, Liam and Lily. Despite the school holidays being nearly over and us making arrangements right at the beginning today was the first – and only – day we could all manage during the whole 6 weeks they were off school. Busy lives and part time working mums make for …
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I went to bed around midnight last night and Davies was already in my bed. He almost always sleeps with me when Ady is away and in many ways I don’t mind it but I never sleep quite so well with a child in the bed as I do when they’re not. He didn’t get …
Is it Tuesday already?
Bank Holidays always mess with my head for the rest of the week, I’ll still be thinking it’s only Sunday by next Monday :lol:. A need for washing powder, various bits of food and a desire to get out of the house drove us out this morning. We headed over to Littlehampton as we’ve said …
Brian
We arranged to see my parents today and as we attempt to find things to do which are cheap / free when we see them so that they don’t carry an air of weariness about our finances and then sigh heavily as they pay for us we’d suggested going to Raystede Animal Centre where we’d …
Bank Holiday Sunday
We had a long standing arrangement to go to Chris and Julie’s today. We used to see them pretty much every weekend but life seems to have gotten busier these days and we have to coordinate diaries well in advance to book weekend get togethers nowadays. The plan was a barbecue which although early weather …
Welcome back
First things first I’d like to say a very big indeed THANK YOU to Bob for getting my blog back. I’m not at all sure you know how much it means Bob but let me assure you it is a big deal and I am hugely grateful :). Thanks also to Chris P for various …
Short attention sp.., hey look at that!
Things I have stuck with: hair colour Ady this blog home education (so far) Things I haven’t: everything else! Including all my other blogs, most other people’s blogs, jobs, hair length….. I’m already bored of the whole twitter and brightkite (keep wanting to call it blackkite, was that some nutter on MP from a few …
Oh we do like to be
beside the seaside… As anticipated by today we were already bored of quiet stay at home days – I do think the children and I all suffer from short attention spans :oops:. I had a very productive morning of getting the aired tent all packed away (it was not up, just draped around the place. …
September Camp – ETA Butser stuff
I’ve emailed all the people I have listed as coming with the booking form for Sustainability Centre. I did bounce back from Layla and Chris French (who I had as a possible Chris?) though. I’m waiting to hear back from the Campcraft people about a revised price based on more accurate numbers so I’ll post …
Our definition of quiet
Is possibly not everyones ;). Davies woke to his pound under his pillow from yesterday’s lost tooth. He’s never really been into the idea of the tooth fairy as it wasn’t really something we talked about until after he’d already shared his suspicion that Father Christmas might not be real. However he is still savvy …
End of a crazy week.
This week was always going to be one we had to take time to recover from when it was over. But it was all worth it :). After a brief one night touchdown back at home to bath, sleep in our own beds and unpack / repack the car we were off again. This time …