I flicked to channel 615 today and to my horror found it is no longer a channel. Further investigations confirm that Discovery Kids is no longer on TV. Sure they are now online with TV on demand of some of the shows but this is truly a tragic day 🙁
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You’ll never shine if you don’t glow
Friday I worked all day. Julie was here in the morning, Dad was here for about an hour over lunchtime before Ady got home. Seems a long time ago now. Ady has been ill all week and is only really better this weekend. S woke in the middle of Thursday night with a temperature but …
I saw the light on the night that I passed by her window
A line from one from the valleys for St Davids day 🙂 I’ve had lots of reminders from Davies this week of just how much a small child remembers things. He was talking about something, I’ve totally forgotten what of course, at the weekend which had happened when he was about 3 and a half. …
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You leave tonight or live and die this way
Had a very unsatisfactory morning at work. 🙁 Kessingland is causing me headaches which I’m really pissed off about, it’s a long time since a job stopped me doing stuff, let alone one for just 11 hours a week 🙁 I checked the dates of the two proposed weeks on Saturday as I realised that …
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Other uses for egg boxes
Should have nicked some of the egg boxes from yesterdays junk modelling session – and then soundproofed the cupboard under the stairs with them and moved in! Scarlett and Ady have coughs. I can hear them now, coughing in stereo in their sleep, one from upstairs and one from downstairs. Meanwhile I sit here planning …
Upside down
Despite being really late to sleep last night both the children were awake early this morning. I was utterly incapable of getting up at 7am when Ady went off to work so instead they both came up to the bedroom and sat / wriggled / laid / chatted with me instead. Scarlett played in the …
And all I ever knew…
I have a cd in the car of various music that ‘takes me back’. Not all the tracks on it mean anything specific but they transport me to times gone by. One of them is a Huey Lewis track, Naturally which I especially like because it has no instruments, just voices. We were talking about …
Chasing birds and butterflies…
James the cat. Been doing lots of remembering theme tunes from childrens TV of the past here today. Driving the children utterly insane with breaking into the Pink Panther song several times and testing each other with a single line from a show. Lots of dancing around and generally acting like we might just be …
My baby don’t care for cars and races
You know those times when you think you had a good idea and the whole bloody universe gangs up to show you just how wrong you were? That was me 20 minutes before I needed to be at work this afternoon. When I was stood in Asda in Brighton – 15 miles from work with …
There are lots of funny animals in all this world…
but have you ever seen a panther that is pink? How lovely it is to have children old enough to stagger downstairs, sort them out something to eat and drink and stagger back up to bed again while they entertain themselves. 🙂 I laid in bed for a while reading a book and then dozed …
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Ooh starstruck!
Ady rang me several times last night, mostly all pissed off about being away from home, until he surprised me by ringing at midnight when I was in bed, suddenly sounding more pissed than pissed off and full of excitement for who he was sitting next to. He was at Grower of the Year awards …
Workaday
Up early this morning to wave Ady off – he is at some swanky and glamorous growing awards ceremony in London tonight. I could have gone too but I was working, we had no one to look after the kids and I’d have had to hire a ballgown. So actually, no I couldn’t have gone …
Without You
I was telling someone about this poem recently and stumbled across it tonight while looking for something else. I think it’s lovely so am going to put it here in full so I can find it again when I next want it. Without You. Without you every morning would feel like going back to work …
Seen at Making it up
You Are Apple Red You’re never one to take life too seriously, and because of it, you’re a ton of fun. And although you have a great sense of humor, you are never superficial. Deep and caring, you do like to get to the core of people – to understand them well. However, any probing …
Whatever makes you happy, whatever you want…
We were supposed to be meeting up with Julie, Jack and Maisie today for a Pre Spring Walk but the arranged place is the best part of a 50 miles round trip with an hour drive both ends so when Julie rang to confirm details this morning I was reluctant enough to convince her not …
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I’m a million different people…
We started the day with some ill fated pancakes for breakfast. So ill fated that after burning one, making another into sweet scrambled eggs and just about managing one edible one each for Davies and Scarlett I gave up on producing anything for myself. I know a bad workman blames his tools and all that …
Man
Which was supposed to go directly above the ‘and boy’ post about Davies but things related to tea got in the way! Anyway, this is about my Dad. I’ve always considered me and my Dad have an easy, very good relationship. We share many traits (most of the ones which annoy my mother :lol:) and …
So I got some tea!
I took a lot of getting going this morning – caffeine definitely has more of an effect than I’d given it credit for. Davies was already stuck into Were Rabbit on the Xbox, getting loads further than he’s ever got before so he was less than keen to do much else other than explore previously …
And Boy
I’ve not really blogged about this but I have hinted at having struggled a bit lately with Davies. I’m not going to detail the whole thing but I did want to record a few general things, more for my own honest record of our relationship than anything else really. When I found out I was …