Granny is arriving in half an hour (which means I need to get me and the children dressed really rather than sitting here blogging!) to give me a hard time about why she didn’t actually see me on her birthday and how fat I’m looking 🙄 Lucy has just texted me to ask if we …
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Day trip to the city….
Ridiculously early start this morning when Tarly woke me at 6.20am. Urgh! So much for new routine giving lie ins all the time 🙄 I actually felt quite rough (and deservedly so given quite how many empties I stuck in the recycling bin this morning but there was six of us for most of the …
Speedy Gonzales
A lovely sun kissed day today. 🙂 It started with a lie in, Tarly brought the post up to me around 8am and I turned over and went back to sleep until gone 9.30am :-). I was woken by Julie ringing to see if we wanted to have a barbecue this afternoon so got up, …
When I was just a little girl…
My Dad has always, always, always gone out on a Friday night, since before he even knew my Mum he’s gone to a mens club locally with a couple of friends. There are only the two of them now, although from time to time Ady has gone with them and I imagine two men nearing …
Post camp debrief.
We were geared up for another at home day today but a text message from Lucy at 9am to see if we were free and wanted to get together was very welcome and after some debate as to what to do when we were both broke we ended up heading round there for the day …
We got froglets!
Remember those tadpoles we had months ago? We all long since lost interest in them and they moved outside with Ady fishing the dead floating ones off the top of the bucket every so often. And then today, Ros’ Pea comes along and peers into the bucket and spots some swimming about. 🙂 They are …
and all for under a pound you know…
It’s been quite a nice day today really. Very laid back and relaxed. I’ve done lots of washing and putting clean washing away, blogging, photographing stuff for ebay and listing far less than I’d hoped to (why does listing take so long?) and needle felted a belated birthday pressie for Ros’ Boo 🙂 The children …
Goddard Tour of the North
Ady’s booked the time off work, I’ve cleared the backlog of washing from camping last week and we are already turning our thoughts towards our next expedition. Our travelling and accomodation is now set but as it occured to me last week that we may well be going past the front door so to speak …
Badgerdoodledoo!
Back to life, back to reality today for all of us. First thing we all had the dentist – Ady went off to do a couple of local B&Qs first while me and both children stayed in bed asleep 😳 Davies woke me at 8.30am, Tarly had arrived in our bed sometime during the night …
Anniversary & Fathers Day
Now I know plenty of you ‘don’t do Fathers Day’ or indeed Mothers Day for that matter and probably not Valentines Day either. We do ‘do’ them here although not to the excessive level we once used to. We also make a fairly big deal about birthdays and anniversaries including celebrating two anniversaries a year …
Last week…
sitting in Morrisons having taken the children out of the field for proper cooked dinner one afternoon. Davies had obviously been listening to a conversation in the marquee about God and creation and stuff. D: What’s Adam’s Daddy called again? Me: Tony (as in Ros and Tony) D: Right, so is Tony God then? cue …
So, Kessingland then…
Inbetween carrying on the whole talking to Ady rather than being an occassional raised set of eyes from behind a laptop screen pattern that I quite enjoyed last week, Fathers Day and post camp come down this weekend I have also been pondering on how exactly to blog last week. I could do the day …
First I was afraid, I was petrified kept thinking I could never live my whole week being outside I spent so many days blogging all my angst and fears spent all my wine soaked evenings fighting back the tears Then Alison brought the tent, I put it up I realised I could still drink Pimms …
postcard style blogging…
and will return with a proper update very soon. Apologies to all the birthdays I missed mentioning either before or during Kessingland, hope you all had fab days. 🙂 Photos in the usual place. Had a fab time 🙂 Ady and I have been together for 13 years today so no doubt some emotional post …
The day before…
Had a lovely day today. Dad popped round first thing with a financial contribution to happy holidays 🙂 so that was a nice wake up call. He left and Mum arrived so we set off to Ardingly for the South of England show. A smooth journey there and easy parking. Mum paid for us to …
Spiderman, spiderman…
Shared something with Ali today I don’t believe I’ve ever told anyone else, so in the interests of keeping all online crossed into real life friends in the same loop at the same level… You know that bit in the Spiderman theme tune where it goes: Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a spider can Well when …
yawn
You Are a Chocolate Chip Cookie Traditional and conservative, most people find you comforting. You’re friendly and easy to get to know. This makes you very popular – without even trying! What Kind of Cookie Are You?
S’me.
Your Emoticon is Cool You’re not feeling particularly up or down, just relaxed and calm. You’re ready for whatever is going to happen next! What Emoticon Best Represents You Right Now?
Always no sometimes think it’s me….
I was cooking chicken curry in the slow cooker today which needs yoghurt to be really nice but I’d forgotten to buy any. So leaving my cup of tea to cool down while we nipped round the local shop we dashed round there picking dandelions and daisies as we went. No yoghurt in the shop …
Rocks and roll…
I’ve been very here but absent today trying to get some CVs done all day and not really getting very far. One of those days where on reflection I failed to demonstrate any of those time management or workload prioritising skills I have been waxing lyrical about for other people all day as I kept …