today 🙁 We all overslept this morning which meant I had to text Mel at the time we were supposed to be pulling up outside their house to say we were running half an hour late. I am *always* late when we meet Mel – she once told me she now plans to arrive at …
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Mostly neglectful Monday
You can see most of what we got up to listed below. Washing, baking, chatting and playing. I got pretty much everything I wanted to achieve done and we had Lucy and The Rs over for most of the day too, which meant Lucy and I managed plenty of chatting which was nice. 🙂 We’ve …
In order to try and motivate myself
Stuff I really must get done today: Make some attempt on the laundry mountain – last load in now, all the rest hung out. But it looks like rain so it may well be staying there on the line for the rest of the week! Some baking – we have no ‘nice’ food in the …
Noisy Kids in the rain
We were all up early this morning as we were off to London. A while back a leaflet had come through the door with the free paper advertising the Pops in the Park concerts from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Crystal Palace Bowl. One of the advertised events was a free Noisy Kids concert so …
Wishaway Saturday
I was woken this morning at 6am by Scarlett yelling. I did manage to persuade her to get into my bed and snuggle back up to sleep but she’d already woken Davies too so by the time I’d gone and fed the cat who was making a big fuss once she’d realised there were humans …
It’s all go here!
Yesterday Ady and I were both back to work. My day was pretty manic, with the morning being extremely busy. We do Storytime on Thursday mornings every week for under fives, with it extended to pretty much all ages but mostly suitable for youngsters during school holidays. It tends to get quieter normally though with …
The Crap Tent. RIP
My very drawn out holiday blog – I started it when we got back last night but have only managed to finish it tonight so it now included today as well. It’s good to be back and it was a lovely break :). We’re back a night early from the first holiday we’ve had just …
I really need a holiday…
So what a happy coincidence that we’re off on one tomorrow :). I worked this morning and it was really busy. Wednesday’s often are actually as the library is only open 930am-1pm – most of Lancing still closes on Wednesday afternoons as used to be the case in lots of towns I think. So we …
A Grand Day Out
When Davies was about 2 he loved Toy Story. He had Buzz Lightyear pjs, pants, soft toys, hard toys, books, towel – you name it. He watched Toy Story and Toy Story 2 over and over again. He went out dressed as Buzz regularly and for days would insist that we call him Buzz while …
What else?
Feeling much better today, despite being woken by a hysterical Scarlett because Ady had already gone off to work. She finally calmed down and both children got into bed with me for cuddles before we all went downstairs. They breakfasted and Davies made a birthday card for Dad, then we headed off to Tescos for …
I wonder if….
it will be ready in time to get one for Davies’ Doctor Who party? 😆
Happy Birthday Dad
69 today! Now I know I often take lots of pictures which look very similar to each other and flickr the whole lot. I admit sometimes I do it just for fun now ;). But tonight I took about 50 photos in a row of my Dad with his birthday cake, some alone and some …
sea and snooze
I had a really crap nights sleep last night with lots of waking up to cough or blow my nose so when Scarlett woke just after 7am I was so not ready for the day to start. But we had to be out of the house by 9am to go to the Beach Beasties event …
Eats meat and leaves ;)
I worked this morning. It went pretty quick even though it was a quiet Saturday – I assume the lovely weather and the fact that loads of people are away on holiday meant that the library wasn’t a destination for most people today. I did bring shame upon my people though this morning for which …
Landmark day
See that tooth on the bottom? It was his first tooth ever, it broke through on 28th June 2001. 6 years and a few weeks later it’s come out. Anyone who’s seen him in the last couple of weeks will have been treated to seeing how wobbly it has been for *ages*. Somehow both Ady …
I know what a levee is
I’ve always had a sort of idea but now I’ve wikiepedia’d and I really, properly know. And if you don’t follow my twitters you won’t know why I was prompted to find out what a levee is today but I bet you could guess anyway, let’s face it levees don’t come up all that often …
sniff splutter sniff
Off to work for me today. Lucy and The Rs were here with Davies and Scarlett in the morning and my Mum was here in the afternoon. Ady’s been complaining of a cold for the last 2 or 3 days and during the course of this morning I started to feel a telltale lump in …
lazy hazy days of summer
First thing this morning we gathered up all the library owned items in the house. A recent tidy up in the lounge has freed up a corner beside the tv which we’ve now allocated to library stuff to keep it all together. I had several things to go back, we collected up all the watched …
Listen to this….
I’m reading The History of Love by Nicole Krauss at the moment. I’m not very far in but really enjoying it, it’s just so beautifully written with wonderfully constructed sentences. Some writers have massive talent for storytelling, some for plot lines, some for painting scenery, some for bringing characters on a page into full three …
more from the past…
I realised today I’ve bumped into three people from ‘the past’ over the last couple of weeks – Dina this weekend, Alex my old boss last weekend (did I blog that? can’t remember) and someone at work peered at me the week before last and said ‘Nicola isn’t it? I used to go to school …