here is yesterday! Davies and Scarlett have been going to play (read being looked after) at Caz and Bid’s house every other Wednesday morning so I can go to work and it’s been working really well. They have two boys A and E who are almost identical ages to D and S and the four …
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First camping trip of the season
Thought I’d blog the trip in it’s entirety rather than break up the days. We first heard of the Sustainability Centre two years ago when we went to their Sussed It fair – (I’ve just been and read that post and been astounded at how much I’ve changed and how much D and S have …
If you can’t find the music to get down and boogie all you can do is
Step back in time! To Friday. I’d normally work all day on my every other Friday but due to them owing my hours in lieu from the bank holiday I only had to work the afternoon. I later learnt they hadn’t thought this through terribly well as in the morning I’d have done the banking …
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today’s news
We had got plans to meet friends at the park this morning but they were unable to make it and cancelled yesterday so we decided to have some time at home instead. Davies and Scarlett played a lengthy and rather hilarious to listen to game featuring aliens from Ben 10 and Timmy the dog from …
Halcyon days…
I worked yesterday morning. Normally Davies and Scarlett go and play with Archie and Elliot every other Wednesday morning but my Mum is off work this week so she offered to come over for the morning. They walked down to the laked park and all round it so were worn out already by the time …
A good’un
We had this plan today to get all the camping stuff sorted out, assembled and checked and a list made of anything we needed to replace / purchase. Except when we were up and the sun was shining we decided it would be a waste of a lovely day and went out instead! We decided …
I hate bank holidays
I hated them when I was a child and there were just an additional day of a weekend which Sundays were already a day too much of and I hated them when we worked in retail and not only did we have to work when everyone else wasn’t we also had to put up with …
Short notice and utterly weather dependant
But we’re planning camping here Friday and Saturday night of next weekend and going to the Green Fair before packing up on the Sunday. Anyone want to come along? 🙂
Lashings of ginger beer
When we first joined the National Trust I spent ages going through all the local events and marking them in my diary. This weekend I had ‘tunnels at Petworth’ written down. We’ve been to Petworth once already and it was a good day out – interesting house with lovely gardens. This weekend they opened up …
Hey hey wanna be a rock star
I was up early enough to walk into work this morning. A fly flew into my eye on the way which meant I had to remove it from my eye and repair my make up when I got to work and had a sore eye for the rest of the day. It also meant the …
ABC of me – seen at Liza’s
Accent: Southern English – I say carstle, laurgh and barth 🙂 Bra style: very supportive and mostly lacey Chore I hate: None that I do 😆 I hate the word ‘chore’ actually and the word ‘errand’. Probably the one I avoid most is putting clean washing away. Dad’s name:David Davies. Davies was always going to …
EOFF Off!
Off to Drusillas today to meet up with C, E and M and Ali & Freya of EOFF fame. The plan was to meet at 10am which was always overly amitious for the likes of us and indeed it was 950am by the time we finally left home despite all good intentions to the contrary …
Blogging apathy
I seem to have that every so often. For no particular linked to real life reason it seems an effort to blog. I do, mostly because I read back on my blog myself every so often and it is my long term intention to keep it as a record of this period of our lives …
And before I go to bed…
Today’s question which I’ve just found out the answer to was why are bonfires called bonfires and what makes them different to just fires? They don’t get any easier 😉
Lazy days
I have done very little today actually :). Ady has been off so I took that as a perfect excuse to stay up til 2am and then not get up again til nearly 10am which was nice :). The weather has been very April-y with the added nusiance of lots of wind and cold temperatures …
It’s 2am!
And I’ve just blogged our day over on Monster & Teeny as we did our annual photoblog day today :). I don’t think there is anything additional to add to that so I’ll be off to bed!
Lovely Em, lovely children, lovely day, lovely London
Yesterday was a planned ages in advance as diaries seemed to be full day trip to London to meet up with Em, Eve and Rei :). Em had suggested the Museum Of Childhood which sounded a great place for a visit and also one suitable to going to with friends rather than some of the …
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On Sunday there were badgers
Last week we drove past the British Wildlife Centre which looked rather good so today we packed up a picnic and headed off for that. We stopped for a brief look round a car boot sale which has just started on Sundays on the airfield we live near and Ady and Davies found a telescope …
On Saturday there were bluebells
Ady was QVCing in the morning so the children and I did some TV watching, some baking and plenty of lazing around drinking tea (me) and playing (them). Ady got home around 130pm and we headed straight out to the site of our regular Bluebell and Not Bluebell Walks of the last couple of years. …
Fetch the engines, fetch the engines…
I worked today all day. Julie, Jack and Maisie were here in the morning for the last time of childcare in a while as Julie has only 5 weeks until her due date and no idea when she will be up for getting all the way over here before 9am again. We’ve not seen a …