We’re having a Here, There and Everywhere week off this week which was supposed to be largely camping and thus far hasn’t involved any! This is just as well as August in the UK is clearly not the time or place for camping 🙁 Tomorrow we’re off again for 3 nights in Dorset which really …
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Bakin’, shoutin’, washin’
Another egg today. That’s three in two days which sort of suggests to me that all three of the ‘of age’ hens may well have started to lay now. Hurrah! 🙂 The chick with no name has been tamed by the children who having been given permission to try and catch it yesterday set about …
Children, children, everywhere!
A work day for me today. I struggled to get up and was slightly fragile first thing due to an excess of birthday cheer last night. I had to snap out of it rather rapidly though as it was mad crazy busy at work with small children coming in to either retell every single word …
70 you know
Yesterday was my Dad’s birthday. He is now 70. We decided earlier this year (he and I, I get my proneness to the ridiculous from my Dad, Davies gets it from me, the 3 of us can happily sit for hours talking utter nonsense to each other) that 70 was the official age at which …
Stripping, getting wet and feeling blue
We were supposed to be riding Honey this morning and Scarlett was quite excited about it as Julie was planning on setting up some low jumps and using the ‘lunge lead’ or something similarly named which meant Julie would stand in the middle of the field while Scarlett had more control over the reins etc …
Silver, redundancy and candles
First thing this morning I wanted to get to the library so the children could get their silver stickers for the SRG. We’re away all next week and I wanted to have only one visit left to do after that, plus Davies is on such a roll with his reading I really wanted him to …
September camping then
Edited to add more information rather than carry on in comments. Campcraft – No necessity to have adults present, although I think the children being ‘well supported by parents’ meant they deemed we needed less tutors. Given some of us will probably have high adult to child ratios (eg me and Ady would both stay) …
Proper Sunday like
Started with a lay-in. A real proper, slept all the way through til nearly 10am lay in. Lovely :). I really am a 830 or later sort of riser and had at least 5 out of the last 7 mornings earlier than that so I needed to make up my deficit – and going to …
Changing rooms
Off to work for me this morning. It was a busy Saturday morning and I got to have my teabreak with Jody – the Man Who Works at the Library :lol:. He had a girl come in last week and ask him out so he’s been getting all sorts of pre-date advice from the many …
Erm…
Can’t think of a title. I worked all day today. It was a good day if slightly chaotic by virtue of so many new staff and relief staff working at the moment. I have a feeling the supervisor of Lancing library is job hunting which would be a shame both because I get on very …
What’s the collective name for Goddards?
At 930 this morning I had a blood test. We walked across to the doctors and sat in the corridor which is where you wait for the nurse. I am not sure whether this is because they don’t want the official waiting room clogged up with non-ill people, if the nurse’s rooms don’t have the …
Wobbly Wednesdays
The wobble is in honour of Tarly who has her first wobbly tooth. I forgot to mention in yesterdays epic blog that she was complaining of it being hurty yesterday at the motorshow and when I checked it was slightly wobbly. But she’s eaten about 4 apples since then and now it is proper wobbly …
Good prize!
I won my first (see how positive I am at the prospect of many more to follow) prize as a result of my new hobby of ‘comping’ of a family ticket to the British International Motor Show. The ticket was only valid for weekdays so we decided to go today and Ady took a days …
Right and wrong
Davies and Scarlett bounced into my bedroom this morning and announced they wanted to stay home and invite someone over to play today. That seemed like a nice idea so via text I arranged for Lucy and The Rs to come over and thought it would all be plain sailing from there. Or not. Scarlett …
Shady Pines
Ady and Scarlett have been going to the local mammoth car boot sale on a Sunday morning and taunting Davies and I about it as they are often gone before we get up. So today we decided we’d get up early and go with them. I’m rarely out of bed before 8am normally let alone …
On fire
We had this half a plan today to get up earlyish and head off to Dorset for the day with some basic camping (small tent, sleeping bags, camping mats, change of clothing) shoved in the car and if the weather stayed nice to find somewhere to camp overnight and come back tomorrow. But the weather …
Routefinding
Davies and Scarlett played in the garden this morning until it was time to go out. We were off to Liza and Andrew’s for a play and a testing of the water for regular playing while I am at work. I had written down bullet point directions to get there off AA routefinder but got …
Remind me how I ended up there?
Today was easily the hardest days work I’ve done at the library since I started. When I first got the job I was warned about the ‘summer reading game’ in hushed tones. In much the same way as I’d been warned about Christmas at Clinton Cards, January Sale at Bhs, 10% off for over 60s …
Eye of the beholder
We planned to make some mosaic pictures today with the cut out colourchart squares but when we started gathering together necessary stuff we realised we didn’t have any glue. We found nice big pieces of cardboard but nothing to do the fixing with so we decided to walk into Lancing to buy some glue. So …
Sign ’em up!
The chick died in the night – not at all surprising and the children were accepting if sad about it :(. If we keep one of the cockerels I guess we might get back into chick rearing again but it won’t be for a while. I think the break will be good. Davies and Scarlett …