I have approx 350 pages left to read of book group book for tonight. I’m going to do 90 minutes serious reading while the kids are left to their own devices – they have out toy cars, plastic animals, foam blocks, pens, Doctor Who stuff and are watching Pink Panther so I think they’ll manage …
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I’d like to teach the world to sing…
It’s been pouring with rain here all night, all day and looks set to be all night again. Which aside from giving me the idea of dismantling pallets to craft an ark and rustle up breeding pairs of any animals I can get my hands on (not many for sale on ebay I notice) was …
Cool site
Happened upon it when D wanted to make a whistle from a drinking straw and was looking for web instructions to see if it could be done 🙂 Intructables.com
Sunday
It’s been bitterly cold here today, with it feeling like it might even snow but it ended up being really nasty wind and just rain instead. Really feels like winter now, we were so lucky with our NicCamps weather, just 10 days ago. 🙂 Ady set his laptop up in the playroom on the table …
Array of hope
That’s a wide array of hope, which is what comes to pass when a child is born ;). This morning started with a quick trip into town to pay some money into the bank, which was depleted from paying for NicCamp food on my card and collecting cash off everyone so I needed to put …
Go pensioners!
This morning all felt rather frantic with Julie cutting it very fine to get to me and then Ady having kindly defrosted my windscreen but done it so early it had refrosted again all made me slightly late. Work seem very laid back about this though, I have explained I am reliant on people arriving …
And there was me thinking *I* was the idiot
I’ve been bidding on dresses on ebay as Ady has a fairly posh Christmas do this year (and I do like to look my best for when I meet his colleagues ;)) and have just won the third one which should be here tomorrow. The first one was a gorgeous chinese style long green one …
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Table action
I’m feeling a bit better today, still very sneezy and cold but definitely not in need of lemsip or cocaine enhanced cold and flu tablets, so that’s good. It’s been one of those perfect crisp clear cold days here today so I got loads more washing done (and oh, what a joy it is to …
Working and Walking
I worked this morning and met a new colleague for the first time, Sarah. There are two Sarah’s at Lancing library, which actually makes me feel quite at home as I spent most of my school days in classrooms packed with Nicolas and Sarahs. The new Sarah has just left working in the school library …
Productivity
I’ve been really tired ever since we got back from camp, sleeping on the sofa in the evening and having to drag myself out of bed in the morning. I’m sure it’s just catching up from being away but in honour of that and a Save Nic’s Liver Campaign I’ve sworn off midweek drinking again …
Helmsley 2008
I’ve had an email back to say they can’t confirm price or availability for December 2008 until December 2007 but will contact me again on 1 December, which would suggest to me we are in with a good chance of getting it booked if no one else can until that date either. So far we’ve …
Back to the here and now, yeah
Off to Magical Mondays this morning, Davies brought Crazy Frog with us, having got me to label his foot with ‘Davies’ just incase someone else happened to have brought one along too or found his and thought maybe it was theirs by mistake or something ;). I have to say I would be slightly more …
Stuff
Davies and I were talking yesterday: “When I was younger I used to think that when on adverts on TV they used to give you a number to call for something you couldn’t ring it until they’d finished the advert because they were busy being on TV at that time. Now I know they only …
Weekend
Which was neither busy or productive but did ease us back out of being with a big group and we got all the washing done! Saturday morning I was back to work, having managed to only take 7 hours leave for the week. It was busy which was good as I was still tired and …
Now this….
is just plain wrong. He’s on my list, hell, as some people found out last week he’s even on Ady’s list. I love the music of Cole Porter, but the two just go together about as well as a horse and tutu.
And while I’m in a thinking ahead sorta mood…
We’re planning a Goddard Tour of the North 2008. We have a space in a garden in Leeds booked for us and the SuperTent for Wednesday 13th August so I think Ady and I will take the full week off and plan to travel northerly on the Friday before and come home the Sunday after. …
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Roll up, roll up
Venue yet to be confirmed but I’m hoping for Helmsley or somewhere equally quaint and pretty, planning now for Christmas NicCamps 2008. Dates will be Monday 1st – Friday 5th December. On offer will be mulled wine, mince pies, maybe even a Christmas dinner if the cooking facilities in the hostel are up to catering …
NicCamps III
Monday It felt very odd to be going on holiday but with very little to do in the way of last minute stuff. I’d done baking on Sunday but had no containers for it so added that to my shopping list, did very little all morning other than gather together 2 bags of clothes for …
Whizz bang pop!
Today was baking day in preparation for NicCamps. I had a plan to make parkin to take too (double portions infact, one for tonight and one for NicCamps) but I couldn’t find my loaf tin and then got bored looking for it so gave up. I did make a couple of trays of flapjacks, rice …
The Productive, the poorly and the pandering
I was up until nearly 2am with Tarly and eventually went to bed leaving her still awake last night. She was cheery enough despite her dreadful cough and quite happy for me to go off to bed and leave her once I’d completed her checklist of glass of water, blanket, finding a lost dummy and …
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