Work this morning. I don’t know if I’ve ever actually described my workmates here, have I? The whole of West Sussex is split into regions with each region having about 5 branches within it. The five branches have a Senior person overseeing all of them with a Senior Library Assistant working in each branch running …
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Maybe tomorrow I’ll wanna settle down…
Which is just a line from the theme tune to The Littlest Hobo, which Julie and I were singing at the weekend in a nostalgic and slightly hysterical from too much elderflower cordial on a sunny afternoon type manner and has been stuck in my brain ever since. I am definitely a ‘better under pressure’ …
NicCamps winter 2007
I’ve just posted to the NicCamps list details of the five hostels that are currently available with prices and bedroom details etc. There are a couple of people on the NicCamps list who have not said whether they are up for coming this time or not and if anyone else might be interested shout and …
By dictat ;)
Today, today 🙂 Very efficient morning with the children breakfasted and dressed nice and promptly. I’ve not blogged about Scarlett and her milk actually have I? She still has a bottle of warm milk morning and evening. Davies only stopped earlier this year, way past six and totally in his own time. Scarlett also still …
Some photos
I’ve been rubbish lately at inserting photos into posts, which is one of those things which doesn’t seem worth the hassle at the time but I always appreciate when I go back and read old posts. I’m not about to go back and try and do that now but here are some from this weekend …
Educational Provision
Davies would be wrapping up his second year at school about now and Scarlett would be preparing to start in September. Suddenly I am mere months away from having a seven and a five year old, which is proper children rather than babies and toddlers. I never really got my head round Davies being five, …
And that was the weekend. Gone.
Ady’s been working on clearing a triangle of garden just infront of our house. Years ago our front lawn was split by a stepped path from the front door down to the drive, we took the path away leaving steps up to the front door and a flat path across the lawn but left the …
Not quite the day we’d planned
We were supposed to be having a day out with my Mum today to celebrate her birthday yesterday. She’d clearly been doing research and came round last night with a list of several ideas of things to do including a day at the very nice soft play over at Ford that we’ve not been to …
BBC news story about pupils getting lessons in respect.
Well you shake it to the left
All has not been well of late. No real idea why, I’ve sat and explored why I’ve not been feeling right for ages and not been able to come up with anything. I know I was utterly exhausted by life in general and really felt like I needed a holiday, I know I didn’t feel …
ok
I’m all too drunken (very good evening celebrating my Mum’s birthday 🙂 ) to blog properly but have had emails from YHA. Okehampton is not available for the dates we want so I have a list of other hostels which are. Who is interested in coming to a NicCamp for Monday 5th – Friday 9th …
Sniffle snuffle
Ady and the children had a cold the week before we went camping. I was convinced I would not get it by the power of positive thinking alone and having been cold free for two weeks after they recovered I thought I’d got away with it but yesterday I started to feel a bit ‘coldy’ …
Is this me?
I came out as a Leader
Fading fast
Just realised I hadn’t blogged yesterday before blogging this morning. I’d meant to do it first thing and of course other things sort of got in the way. Let me cast my mind back all those hours ago… ah yes. We all woke late (well the three of us not expected back at work first …
I’m brave, me!
Decided that all my brave talk about self sufficiency lifestyles would involve more that the odd dead bird to deal with so I plucked (boom, boom!) up the courage to go and sort it all out. The kids were adamant they wanted to see so having checked it was not a total bloodbath (and as …
Oh clucking hell :(
Last night Ady and I sat reminising on our Tour Of The North this time last year, tainted by the loss of Malice before we went and the subsequent finding of Malice while we were away, followed by the long and drawn out but probably quite inevitable death of Malice a month or so later. …
Getting back to normal
Swimming lesson for Davies this morning. He only managed two swimming sessions last week despite good intentions on our part for daily swimming but did really well at showing no fear and being really very happy underwater. He can do a semblence of swimming doggy paddle style but can get around and doesn’t sink. Today …
I really should take downers or something
One afternoon of sunshine and two nights in a proper bed in a house with a bath and I’m already hankering after camping again. Clearly my short term memory isn’t up to much as I’ve already forgotten the smell of the field, the feeling of having all my toes stuck together with caked on mud …
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Where to start?
Curiously not the first time I’ve used that as a post title – must go and check what the previous one was, bet it was a Home Ed camp of some sort :). Saturday morning I went off to work while Ady did splendid work keeping Davies and Scarlett’s excitement slightly under fever pitch (well …
Hmmm
I’m disinclined to post today really cos I’ve been very short tempered and annoyed most of the day (one of those where the childrens’ noise levels and my own shrieking have made me very glad we live in a detached house, otherwise I’d be expecting social services round any moment to do a nighttime raid …