It was a Thursday and at 830am local time, which was 430pm UK time I walked down the aisle on my Dad’s arm to become Ady’s wife. You’ve seen the photos, viewed the video and heard the story many time. Everyone else may well tire of it, but I guess I never will. This morning …
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Ready?
Pretty much :). I didn’t replicated my slothness slacker-mom performance of yesterday and was up and about well before 8am with children dressed and breakfasted when Julie arrived with, oh, seconds to spare before I left for work. The senior library assistant who runs the library day to day has been on leave this week …
Argh!
I’ve had a fairly stressy day today. Mostly because I’d set myself up with lots to do and then managed to not wake up until 1130. Yep, that’s right 1130 😯 😳 I’m still not altogether sure how that happened actually. I recall waking when Ady got up around 630am and then again when both …
You can take the future, even if you fail
Ok, a bit of scene setting here first of all: Imagine, if you will a bit of vaseline blobbed round the outside of your pc screen to make it all dreamy and soft focus. Sprinkle some virtual geranium essential oil (it’s my favourite because it reminds me of turkish delight and a mix of geranium, …
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Knock, knock
I worked this morning, it was easily the fastest four hours I’ve ever spent there, it just flew by. 🙂 There were only four of us on and the library is only open from 930 til 1pm on Wednesdays so everything needs to be done during the morning rather than stretched out until the normal …
Chessington
Very infancy stages but D is desperate for some more theme park rollercoaster action so rather than another legoland trip I was thinking about Chessington if I can get good rates. No idea of dates although it will probably be October some time (avoiding half term :)) and more likely a Thursday or Friday as …
chicken substitute soup for the soul
Because being a (crap) vegan and all there was no poultry harmed in the making of our pesto pasta at Ali’s (although I think there may have been egg based preservative in the pesto and I believe peccorino cheese was brutally slaughtered too. Oh and there was senseless killing of pine martens for their nuts …
Just like any other day then…
Except the roads were busier before 9am and everywhere else was dead all day :). First thing I did various householdy stuff and then we put CBBC on and they children watched something called Wonderful World of Weird, or something along those lines. This was great, it had all sorts of odd factoids including details …
all the lights are on and the blinds are down
Off to the car boot sale again this morning. I’m feeling a bit car-boot-sale-ed out to be honest, but we’ll be giving them a miss for the next couple of weeks anyway and then we’re planning to attend one as sellers rather than buyers so I should be about ready for the winter break by …
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you put your whole self in, your whole self out…
We went to a car boot sale this morning, a different one to normal. But the children (and I) were tired and not really in the mood for it so I took them back to the car while Ady finished walking round. On the way home there had been a car accident on the bridge …
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I got sunshine on a cloudy day
Ady took Davies off to work with him today. It was a last minute arrangement made last night at Davies’ request. It’s one of the advantages of A’s job actually that he can do that every so often. He couldn’t take both of them off really as they’d prevent him from actually doing his job …
That’s the pinata done then!
This morning seems a long time ago…
I worked this morning. It would be my full day to work this week but as they owe me hours for bank holiday Monday (we all get pro-rata’d hours back from the library being closed for the day) I finished at 130 instead of 5pm. F, my favourite colleague was working so we had a …
labour of love
that bloody dalek! I can’t say I wish I’d never started as I am enjoying it and I do think it will look pretty good when it’s finally finished but if I’d known just how long it was going to take before I started it I may well have had second thoughts. Thankfully it’s only …
When you put it like that…
I guess I do get a fair bit done, it just never feels like it til I sit and write it all down at the end of each day. First thing this morning I did some work on the laundry pile – putting away clean stuff. The washing machine has been out of action for …
Stuff to get done today
Order new contact lenses online – just realised I only have a week or so supply left – decided to wait until A get’s paid on Friday Get to Tescos and buy bread, milk, loo roll etc. Supplies running very low here – done 🙂 Find something to make dalek’s sink plunger style bit (but …
Tentatively pleased
see what I did there?! We errected the new tent today – we’ve been debating what to call it, the first tent was ‘ChrisAndAlisonsTent’, then we had ‘The Crap Tent’ which we have to thank for introducing the word ‘crap’ into our childrens’ vocabulary. So far we’ve come up with ‘the big tent’ (Davies) – …
What’s going to work?
We went to our usual car boot sale this morning but a combination of it being rained off so many weeks this summer, a brilliantly hot August day and the long weekend meant it was heaving. Heaving with sellers aswell as buyers though and many a bargain was to be had. 🙂 I’d taken about …
Thank you!
Didn’t blog yesterday, partially because I was at work all day and I never have much to say when I’ve been at work, partially because I’d made a start on another blog post which I still have in draft but was planning to post first but mostly because I got paid yesterday so after 10 …
meedja whores
Another day, another free event in the Goddard household! 🙂 I think I may have mentioned this before, but as I’m only repeating myself for which I cannot be sued and it gives Chris something to snigger about I’ll do it anyway, but it really is amazing how much free stuff is laid on when …