Thursday In the morning Ady went to work while the children and I (mostly I, obviously!) packed up everything ready to go. Ady arrived home at lunchtime and we got the car loaded up and were off for about 3pm. I’d read on the website that morning that tents would not be sited after 7pm …
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Yesterday A Swimmer, today A Reader :)
Off to work for me this morning. Ady was at home with the children; it’s really making so much difference that arrangement, a complete win:win on all counts, not least regular time for Ady and the children together without me :). I had a nice morning at work. There are four of us on a …
More family stuff
Without any real planning to do so we’ve spent 3 of the last 5 days in the company of Julie, Jack, Maisie and Lorna. It’s been lovely actually. Scarlett and Jack have been getting on really well and it’s been so nice to be with Julie as we had slipped into more of a fortnightly …
Oh yes, it’s summer!
It was second-Monday-in-the-month Pulborough Brooks Home Ed meet up today.The last couple have only really been Katie-who-organises-it and us but today had a massive turn out :). Scarlett is being tricky (again – I’m sure I could find plenty of excuses or justifications, but really she’s being a poo-bag and I’m rather conscious of the …
with tuppence for paper and string…
Yesterday when driving past Stanmer Park on the way to Freya’s party we noticed the Kite Festival was on. We first happened upon it 4 years ago in much the same way when we were driving past to go somewhere else. I thought it was 2 years ago, but decided it could have been 3, …
Sunshine, bubbles and birthdays
Yesterday morning I worked. I’ve sort of lost track of what’s extra and what’s not but I seem to be working every Saturday that I’m not away in a tent this summer! It was fine, I finally managed to finish my display for the Team Read, this summers reading game which kicks off tomorrow. I …
Farhmlee
We met Julie, Jack, Maisie and Lorna at the stables this morning. We hit serious traffic on the way so an optimistic 20 minute / realistic 30 minute drive took nearly 50 minutes. That gave us plenty of time to listen to our current in-car cd and for me to explain ‘revolution’ (Sandi Thom, punk …
Barefoot
One of the things I keep forgetting to blog is that twice this week Davies and Scarlett have caught a bit of the daily news on TV and it has led to tricky conversations. Once was about ‘drugs’ which actually I sort of struggled to define really. I thought I was doing an ok job …
Does everybody know what an incubator is?
This morning, just for a change, it rained :(. Scarlett had woken at 2am, claiming a bad dream, wanted a drink, come up to bed with me, laid and chatted for nearly an hour, cried because she said her ear hurt, decided she wanted to go back downstairs again, made me sit on the floor …
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More Mumming
It was briefly nice this morning when I woke up but grey clouds were already hanging overhead by the time I’d got the washing machine going :(. I gave Davies and Scarlett a few options; Drusillas (again – although even if we don’t manage a final visit on this years membership I think we made …
Care in the community
The wind and rain that started yesterday did indeed continue all through the night. I decided barely recovered from bad colds people shouldn’t be out and about in wind and rain so our plans to go to Drusillas were called off. (Hope you are feeling better soon too Ros X). So after a quick vote …
Wild and wet and windy
I’ve decided I’m bored with blogging about still feeling ill. Therefore you may assume until I blog in a delighted fashion about how well I am feeling now that I am still feeling crap. If I stop blogging altogether it may be safe to assume that I have contracted triple pnemonia and am hospitalised. Either …
This morning seems a very long time ago
I worked again this morning. My hours are a bit all over the place as I have theoretically swapped Saturday shifts for a while to cover a vacancy but as I already had various things booked through July and August on my weekends off I seem to be working lots in a row. I am …
Another day absent
Last night I went to bed about 1am. This is about normal time for me. Twice a week I have to get up at 8am to be at work, the rest of the week unless we need to be somewhere I get up between 8 and 9am. My hour or so (usually 2, sometimes 3) …
Recovering
I had a really crap nights sleep and was woken horribly early by noise children but then couldn’t get back to sleep again for coughing and runny nosing. I did stay in bed reading for an hour or so though, I like being in bed in the morning with the curtains open for daylight to …
the fascinating witches who put the scintillating stitches…
etc. 😆 Davies and Scarlett are both recovered from the lurgy but I am still feeling fairly crap and although Ady claims to be ‘strong as an ox’ or some other such nonsense he looks pretty crap so I’m guessing he feels it too. I worked this morning which probably did me some good really …
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Oh yeah, blogging
Sort of forgot to blog yesterday… Davies woke up with the cold that had Scarlett laid low over the weekend so a quiet day was required. We needed to pop into town to pay the mortgage so we slowly got breakfasted and dressed and headed out. The money needs to be withdrawn from one bank …
The weekend of sniffs
Saturday morning Scarlett awoke and announced she had a cold. I love her self-diagnosing of things, she does it often and is frequently correct. She did look pretty rough and was sniffling and snuffling and doing that hot and cold thing. I was off to work and Ady and the children were off to Lakeside …
Cousins
This morning started badly really. Both Davies and Scarlett were in really grotty moods, really annoying and unthinking and squabbly with each other (allowing me to blame it on them rather than feel worried it might have been me in a bad frame of mind ;)). I made a picnic lunch and probably only sat …
Back to work
for me today, which feels strange so long after the beginning of the week and Ady going back after the holiday. Ady was home with the children this morning but it did mean he didn’t get home tonight until nearly 10pm as he had to catch up. This is looking to be a less and …