Down to breakfast nice and early again for me and the children – Ady had already long gone to QVC. This time we breakfasted rather lighter than yesterday and felt much better for it. We were back in the room and all packed up just after 9am so we had a bit of a rest …
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I slept really badly and woke just after 630am when Davies clambered into bed with me (Ady had just left for QVC) and then tossed and turned and muttered for ages. I have this theory about needing to sleep with your body in the right direction – eg at home my bed is east/west, Davies’ …
But using Ady’s horrid clunky laptop cos the wireless prepayment thing was clever and wouldn’t let me use it on my laptop after we#d signed in on Ady’s. So expect lots of / instead of . # instead of ‘ and othe general mistypes as his keyboard is slightly different to mine 🙄 I had …
Yes, today we have been mostly listening to the OST of Little Shop of Horrors which is the current favourite film here again (seems to be a very cyclic thing here, favourite films) and having listened to Scarlett’s megamix of ‘I’m a mean green mother from outer space, now SPIT!’ I thought I’d get the …
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Clearly we’ve been watching the goings on over at Dragon Lady’s with great interest. On Monday she had workmen there fitting a new double glazed front door. It is very pretty, one of those with stained glass window panels with flowers on. Scarlett was observing the whole thing and speculating that that was why she …
I worked this morning. Davies and Scarlett went to play at Caz’s with A and E. I mis-timed the journey slightly even though I was organised and got the car windscreen defrosting ten minutes before we left. I think it was half term or something when we last went and it took nearly 20 minutes …
I am very eggcited to report, this is no yolk and it’s smashing to be able to tell you, our route to self sufficiency has slowly but surely begun! After many a false start, of hatching four cockerels on our second attempt at incubating eggs, after ending up with two cockerels that were bought as …
Today was Sunday on our ‘deferred weekend’ of Ady being off yesterday and today we’d planned to start using our National Trust membership with a visit to Bodiam Castle, about an hours drive away. It’s not the first time we’ve been, we went for Boo of the Scream Team’s birthday party way back in 2005 …
Yesterday a copy of Unconditional Parenting arrived for me from Amazon Marketplace. I opened the parcel, put the book to one side and commenced with my ranty shouty day. When we got home the book seems to have totally disappeared. Of course I know that what has actually happened it is has been a victim …
It’s not been the best of days really. Which probably serves me right for being all drunken and smug about motherhood last night ;). Ady did some outsidey stuff first thing which seemed to take bloody forever. I know he emptied his car out but I lost interest in what else was happening. The children …
Are on the verge of cockiness what with all their fame and celebrity ;). Ady’s on telly, Davies is a locally celebrated artist (with exhibitions lined up in two further locations in the next month) and the cockerel. Well he really is getting above himself! In fairness he is gorgeous, bloody good at his job …
I’m watching Willie’s Wonky Chocolate Factory at the moment. My current book on the go is Scenes from a Smallholding and I’ve just finished It’s Not Easy Being Green. And I’m finding all these pioneering crazy folk very inspirational and almost envying them their hard times stories let alone their ‘and it all turned out …
I didn’t get to bed til gone 2am as I watched Ady’s QVC appearance at about 130am and then waited up for him to ring me afterwards. Bizarrely given I am often awake til the early hours I really struggled and was nodding off on the sofa. The children bounded in to me in bed …
Directly opposite us across the main road lives Dragon Lady. She’s not really called Dragon Lady, infact yesterday I found out she is actually called Rita but in the style of having given most of our neighbours names before we cunningly exchanged Christmas cards with them to find out what they are actually called (or …
In honour of which I picked a bunch of daffodils from the garden and allowed my welsh father to look after my children for the morning, enveloping them in Welsh culture and er, what not! I worked this morning, while I was there Ady had a QVC appearance – two products, both of which sold …
so far! We like Kaiser Chiefs – it’s a Nic, Davies and Scarlett singalong regular in the Nicmobile. This is out current fave by virtue of being on the current mix cd we’re listening too – Lily Allen did a good cover too. But Davies (no idea where he gets it from ;)) likes to …
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I was only slightly hungover this morning and headed off to work to be greeted with ‘could you do storytime today please Nicola, Yvonne’s off?’. So that would be 15 children, 17 adults, half an hour of singing, stories and coloring then. No problem! 😆 The benefit of doing Storytime is you get the whole …
Thought I could have them instead of Winter Walks – what do you reckon? 😉 Yesterday we met up with Julie, Jack and Maisie this morning at the stables for a Honey riding session. It was a beautiful day, really mild, sunny and still. The bridleways and woodland were full of daffodils, violets, snowdrops. The …
Like buying Sainsburys for example. In fairness I can’t claim that one liner for my own, I have to give full due credit to the delivery driver. Of course he isn’t just a delivery driver, nosireebob! He is merely doing that to bring in a bit of extra cash while he works nights as a …