of something new. D & S came to me mighty excited about this today having spotted the advert for it in the Sky kids magazine. Reading may not have got there yet, but brand awareness and logos certainly has 😆
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Smile like you mean it
A frantic morning today. Yesterday at Sainsburys I let Ady, Davies and Scarlett choose two breakfast cereals of their choice each – normally I buy own brand rice crispies, coco pops and honey nut cornflakes but there was lots of offers on the cereals so we went crazy! Which means we now have a cereal …
I’m a raccoon!
Modest, Social, Competitive, Responsible and A Leader. At least two I would have to totally disagree with there 😆
Faces from the past
A long, long time ago (which I can never type or say without wanting to carry on with ‘I can still remember how that music used to make me smile….’) when I first worked at B&Q as a 16 year old there was a 17 year old girl who also worked there part time. Our …
Castle Day
Had a lovely, lovely day at Chris and Helen’s. The weather was pretty much perfect – although it did start to rain as we left their village and is indeed still raining now, so we drove home through some pretty horrible road conditions. 🙁 The children had a great time, loads of friends to play …
Trapped
I’m supposed to be at work all day today, but it’s the every other Friday morning that I have a childcare problem with and having thought I’d sorted it out between my Mum doing the morning and my Dad doing the afternoon over the weekend I went off to Nuneaton not worrying about it. Until …
Feminists on the lash
Tuesday – For once it wasn’t raining! We packed a last few bits in the car and set off for Nuneaton where we were staying at an online friend’s house for a Feminist Parents meet up. We took Ady’s car, sang along to music, laughed at the robotic voice of the sat nav when it …
Un Bon Lundi
Go one, someone tell me it should be une or bonne or something! 🙂 Today it mostly rained. It rained in the morning, it rained in the afternoon and it rained in the evening. Our reclaimed palletwood ark would be coming along nicely if only it would stop raining for long enough to get out …
Hurrah for it being the last early Sunday morning for a while! 🙂 I’m going to try and change Davies’ swimming lessons to a weekday evening too so that not every single weekend will be spoken for come September. Ady and Scarlett decided to go for a walk while I watched Davies’ swimming lesson – …
you haven’t seen me ;)
We had a plan to visit a car boot sale this morning but further rain of the type that inspires me to start collecting more dismantled pallets to build at ark (I have a drawing for the design and everything, I know where to get the pallets – so if it really does keep raining …
Go on, meaning of life….
I could do it, I could. I’ve done all the thorny ones today, how the seed from the daddy gets to meet the egg from the mummy (been fudging that one a while with large amounts of descriptions of menstruation but I was pinned down with a very direct question today 😉 ) whether I …
BFLFCB
My most favourite state to be in is slightly under pressure but managing I reckon. I quite like precariousness and a touch of uncertaintly and I definitely like busyness. For pretty much my entire pre-children career it was a constant state of being really, working initially as a waitress or in the kitchens of my …
Four children in one day
Davies has been a bit ‘fragile’ of late. He goes through these funks every so often and always comes out of the other side but it’s bloody hard work while he’s processing it. In a crowd of people he knows well he plays the role of very loud, very confident, very self assured boy very …
Seen at Live Otherwise
Snap! and Maybe not so snap 😉
Luffely
is what today was 🙂 I was playing catch up this morning having not gone to bed til about 230am and then not got up til nearly 10am. 😳 I then did some speedy housework, rounded up D&S and we headed off to the library. I wanted them to join the Summer Reading Game before …
When in Rome…
We went to Fishbourne Roman Palace today. I went with the school when I was very young along with a trip to Bignor Roman Villa which is also local-ish and another place I’ve been meaning to take the children at some point. We got there just before midday, having learnt that Chris and Helen were …
Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours
It’s a Nic’s neighbours special post. Ooh what a treat. 🙂 No idea if I’ve kept you all fully abreast of the goings on in our street of late so here’s a nice update. You may want to settle in your chair with cocoa and a nice biscuit. Don & Maureen, who live opposite and …
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For anyone not going to J&J’s summer party
which we can’t make as I’m working on Saturday 🙁 We’ve just a leaflet advertising loads of concerts at Crystal Palace Bowl including a FREE concert on Sunday 19th August called Noisy Kids.
Free range ranting
It was the penultimate swimming lesson for Davies today. I’ve got really mixed feelings about them. On the one hand we don’t do teaching here, so I do appreciate it is not something that Davies is familiar with but he wants to learn to swim and has enjoyed the process and insists he wants to …
An illustrated blogpost
I had an incredibly lazy morning and didn’t get out of bed until about 10am. I’d been awake since before 8am what with the postman ringing the bell to deliver a parcel (thanks Layla, still huge for Davies but if he doesn’t grow any time soon then Tarly will have them, very gratefull received :)), …