Work for me today and I had a good day. Lots of nice workmate-y banter, after asking a couple of colleagues to swap shifts with me as I’d had holiday refused as someone else was already off on that day for the day before Scarlett’s birthday party (which also happens to be the night I’m …
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It’s like the Grand Old Duke of York round here…
Yesterday was all day away training day. It was held in Chichester so Ady dropped me off and picked me up which was handy – even more so as I get to claim train fare expenses without actually having gone on the train – hurrah! 😆 The morning was a training session on Local Studies …
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Blah
Some very weird monthly hormonal stuff going on with me for the last week, which I’ll refrain from blogging with my usual detail but might explain at least some of my blahness. The rest I’ll put down to not enough time doing fun stuff lately which will be being remedied by this time next week …
Way too busy…
Yesterday was Hallowe’en Party day at Magical Mondays. I’d made some biscuits (both children wandered into the kitchen first thing and their first question was ‘why are the pumpkins red?’ :lol:) and we had some Hallowe’en music (which never made it out of my bag) and some pumpkin carving kits to take with us but …
For Liza
Check out the recipe for Wallace biscuits over on this blog – same recipe, saves me copying it out again 🙂
Well I used my extra hour very productively :)
I decided this morning that we really should see my parents. Aside from the odd afternoons childcare over the last few weeks I don’t think we’ve seen them at all for ages so keen not to perpetuate their opinion of me as all take and no give (still can’t quite work that out even if …
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Let it never be said, the Romans are dead
so sang Scarlett along with which song today? Illness continues for Davies, who has coughed himself sick twice today 🙁 but remains on good form otherwise and has eaten loads and gone to bed early so should hopefully be on the road to recovery tomorrow. I was off to work this morning, loving working Saturday …
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Spotted in the sidebar
Only taken in July last year but where the hell have all these little children gone then? 😯
Roaming
First of all, before I forget, two witty things from my offspring today: As we left the house this morning I said to the children ‘your bedrooms are a tip, we need to get them tidied up this weekend’ to which Davies replied ‘oh ok, but can we not do that thing where you stand …
A long long time ago
I can still remember when it was just this morning…. Today has really dragged, work was slow, boring and really rather mindnumbing today. I’d so much rather have stayed with the children – or gone and made fire with Ali and Freya instead. Just before I headed off to work Ady rang to say he …
The devil in disguise
We lost the sky remote control at some point yesterday afternoon, which wasn’t a problem until the children went to bed as it was stuck on Nick jr anyway and I turned the tv off as soon as they went to bed (dreams of a tv free life – ah what bliss!). But this morning …
How Tuesday is supposed to be
I always plan to do very little and be home-based on a Tuesday. It often doesn’t actually happen that way but today it did. This morning I stayed in bed and finished the book I was reading which meant the children had sorted their own breakfast out by the time I came downstairs. I got …
Monday Musings
I had a brief phone chat with a friend this morning as he’d emailed to say he’d changed his mobile number so I texted him to test it and he rang to see who I was texting him as he’d lost all his stored numbers. It was brief due to him being on his mobile …
They’re here!
They are rare breed buff bearded sablepoot bantams. We *think* one of them laid an egg this morning so are hopeful for one tomorrow (the we think isn’t because we were unable to work out whether it was an egg or not but because in the place they stayed over the weekend there was an …
Another three day catch up
First things first, could everyone please wave and say Hello to The Babs! 😆 She will be reading this one post, even if she doesn’t then read my blog again until after NicCamps ;). Friday was a work-all-day day for me and seems far too long ago now to recall much about tbh. I know …
Thur-diddly-ursday
And I think we’re all cinema’d out for a while ;). Ady dropped us in Brighton on his way to local stores saving us that £7 parking cost today. We were about half an hour early so took the change to pop into the shops to get a birthday present for Ben which involved two …
In, out, in out…
This morning seems a very long time ago…. I went to bed early last night to catch up from the night before but Scarlett was awake with a bad dream so I went and collected her and brought her back up to our bed where her prefered sleeping position is lying curled up on top …
For my own good
On QI last night (probably a repeat on a random sky channel rather than one anyone else would have been watching) they mentioned about how people who sleep for between 5 and 7 hours a night will live longer than those who sleep for 8 or more. Clearly these first group need to not all …
All goes in…
Off to the cinema this morning for Spirited Away, another filmeducation showing. Last week’s was at a different Brighton cinema – slightly easier to get to, but more importantly with FREE parking. Oh and a half hour later start time too. Last year I was very discerning with the filmeducation films I chose, striving for …
Extended weekend
Ady’s been off for four days now and it was very noticeable today that he’s been with Davies and Scarlett for more prolonged time than normal ❓ I wonder if some of why I’m a bit ratty and intolerant by 7pm most evenings has sunk in at all…. 😆 Yesterday morning I worked, which went …