Despite being up from 7am we had a fairly lazy morning. The children played with geomags and I spent lots of time on the internet doing things like booking film week films and reserving an Xbox for collection at Argos. I finally went upstairs to get dressed at about 10.30am and Tarly came to join …
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A day of two halves…
So yesterday morning Ady and Davies headed off to work together leaving Tarly and I to our own devices. I offered baking, reading books, doing jigsaws, going to the library for storytime and she wanted ‘everything except going to the library’. So we got dressed and headed out to the Wizard store to buy bits …
Interesting….
Our (one remaining) cat has always had behaviour problems, particularly with where she chooses to make her toilet but she’s taken it to a whole new level since Malice got poorly. Whilst googling to find some ideas for stopping it I happened across this site. We seem to have had some success in sorting her …
Oo-er!
Just had the post and in it is the pack for ‘The Attention of the parent of guardian of Scarlett Deborah Goddard’ containing all the information about her school place in September 2007 with the form to return for her school place. I had Davies’ two years ago and ignored it, I got a reminder …
And when they were up, they were up…
See the thing about a rollercoaster is that although you might have that dread before you get on, that trepidation as it makes that first s l o w climb and then scream your way all the way round yelling ‘oh my fucking goddddddd’ (well that’s what I did anyway, although I tempered the language …
And like a dream, a life, a reason…
I’m going through a bit of a tricky parenting phase just now. Enough to make us seriously question Home Ed as an option moving forward although both Ady and I and the children want to Home Ed we don’t want it to be at the compromise of other relationships. As it goes it is not …
Don’t eat the daisies…
Had a lovely lie in this morning and woke to find the rest of the family watching Little Shop of Horrors for the third time. As recommended by at least two friends (Merry and Sarah have definitely mentioned it as one Davies might like) we got it from Tesco DVD rental and sure enough he …
News in brief…
Car boot sale this morning which was one of our more successful ones. I managed to get Tarly a gorgeous full length winter coat, which is just *so* Tarly in sheepskin a-like purple with pink fluffy trim for the bargain price of £2.50 – she loved it so much she wore it all round the …
World still turns…
Yesterday, obviously was dominated by Malice. We took her to the vets at 8.30am and all four of us went. We said goodbye to her knowing we may not see her again. Having been told the vet would ring us at 11am we were left with a couple of hours to fill so we went …
Sleep well old friend.
I guess in many ways its been inevitable for weeks but Malice won’t be waking up from her sedation this time. She simply has too little hope of recovery from yet another setback so the vet and I have concluded that it’s time to let her go now. To Malice, who lived all of her …
I’m the lyrical Jesse James
Me and Ady are watching some obscure music channel with a ‘Pop Heaven’ show and having a competition to guess the tracks first. Ah the fun we have chez Goddard on a wild n crazy Friday nite! 😆 This morning I took Davies to Toysrus to peruse the shelves for birthday present inspiration. We’ve got …
Malice (again)
Back to the vets with Malice again today. She’s going in first thing tomorrow morning for a full X ray and investigation for the head vet to determine whether he thinks that she is likely to recover from yet another operation and go on to be fine other than blind, or whether we are just …
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Yesterday was a bit of a blur really. I was very tired from the stresses of the day before, had a headache and the children are going through a real sibling squabbling phase this week which is generally unpleasant to be around. We went to the park for an hour or so and met up …
Meme of three
As tagged by Kirsty (I answered the Homeschooling one tagged by Katy over on MonsterTeeny) Things that scare me 1 – Predictability – that this could be ‘all there is to it’ 2 – dogs 3 – Tarly’s lack of fear People who make me laugh 1 – Stewart Lee 2 – Victoria Wood 3 …
Happy Birthday to…
Joanna 🙂 Have a fab day xxx
Susumama
Right, I’ve had an order from Em, but I know various others of you were interested in ordering too. I am planning to place the order next Wednesday to give me time to get it here for Davies’ party the following weekend ready to dish out to anyone coming or anyone who can deliver orders …
Yesterday…
Monday night we returned home from our lovely time away and discovered that Malice’s remaining eye was infected as the other one had been a couple of weeks ago. I got a vet’s appointment for yesterday afternoon but had spent the morning convincing myself that this was probably the end for her. We obviously can’t …
Well….
It’s been a while! Last week we were supposed to be going to Newgale for a long weekend, joining Chris and Alison, Sarah and Steve and Simon and Layla. The plan was to leave home on Thursday and make a day of the journey with Ady working as we went visiting all B&Q stores along …
Not much to say really…
It’s been one of those days. But I did get some of this from Tesco and I think I’m in love with it! 🙂
At the risk of tempting fate…
I’ve now camped without the portapottie, during mooncup time, in wind and rain, pitched the tent in the dark, taken it back down again in the wind and rain, rethreaded an unthreaded elastic bit from two poles (performing basic tent maintenance!). Now aside from pitching on the near vertical side of an exploding volcano, carrying …