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Happy Birthday James 🙂 Have a right good day!

A very Sunday sort of Sunday today. Up at 7ish although Ady had been up for a couple of hours (children had woken him and he couldn’t get back to sleep) so he’d done croissants and tea and then went back to bed. The children were playing with plasticine and making flowers. Davies did some …

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It’s been sooooo windy today! I had a lie in this morning and after two glasses of medicinal wine last night and an early to bed night I slept well and felt loads better today. This morning I went off and did food shopping for next week and posted another ebay parcel, Ady did gardening …

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Albert lives! And the real Albert, not a hastily purchased from Petsmart replacement either! 🙂

For Davies’ fourth birthday among other gifts (hey remember this was way back when we were still extravagent with our spending 😉 ) he got two goldfish. He called them Fred and Albert and for quite some while they lived in his bedroom. Thing is, his bedroom’s fairly dark and Malice (one of our cats) …

Continue reading “Albert. The circus fish.”

Tarly and I spent ages today playing with this little electronic book thing. We got it from Boots years ago when Davies was about 18 months old and it was a car toy for ages then sat in the bottom of the noisy toys box. It’s got letters, numbers, pictures, shapes etc on it and …

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Had a really crap night’s sleep last night. I was late to bed anyway but trying to stay up until I was ready to fall asleep, while keeping half an eye on the A Team programme and the BB love stories show after that. Around midnight I finally called it a day only to lie …

Continue reading “Friday, and it couldn’t come soon enough…”

When I undid the washing machine door and soapy, dirty water trickled out over my toes. NOT MY WASHING MACHINE, ANYTHING BUT THAT!!!!! But no, Ady, who has a habit of turning the kettle, coffee machine and washing machine which all share a plug point off at the mains when not in use had turned …

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Get Happy! You Are 92% Happy It’s unlikely that you know anyone happier than you. You know how to be happy, no matter what life throws at you. How Happy Are You?

The A team show is slower than I was expecting it to be, but I do want to see if he can get Mr T! Your Extroversion Profile: Assertiveness: Very High Activity Level: High Excitement Seeking: High Cheerfulness: Medium Friendliness: Medium Sociability: Medium How Extroverted Are You?

And sodding weather! There is clearly some law somewhere that states that if I hang out washing and crow about doing so it will piss down with rain solidly for the following 48 hours. The same law clearly works in even more irritating ways to decree that when the weather forecast is for ‘severe weather’ …

Continue reading “Brave, brave girl :-)”

Totty 🙂 Davies’ dragon picture from the other day: Front and back

Efficient morning with us taking three parcels from ebay to the post office, returning one book and collecting two from the library, getting bread and milk and home again before 10am. That was about the sum of it mind you 😉 No point in doing washing as the last lot is still swinging wetly on …

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So before I freecycle / bag up for the charity shop wondered if Isabelle / Josie / Alys / Rachael (think that’s all the smaller girls) would like any of the following outgrown Tarly stuff: 12 pairs of knickers aged 2-3 years. size 7 wellies, sparkly with flowers on plum coloured velour Laura Ashley top …

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And the verdict on the book was unanimous that it was crap 🙂 So that pleased me! Felt a bit lightweight again tonight when they started talking about a group outing to the theatre (theatre, surely you can’t do cleavage in a theatre. Doesn’t sound like my sort of place at all 😉 ) but …

Continue reading “Back from the book group”

children ate their tea watching Madagascar (film fest a go-go here today!), Ady’s home and I’ll be off to reading group in a while.

children have finished Nightmare before Christmas and are now watching Corpse Bride. I’ve just put their tea in the oven and they are about to start clearing up their colouring stuff.

rain’s set in 🙁 Children doing dot to dots and colouring while watching Nightmare before Christmas.

but it’s started to rain 🙁 I’ve grabbed everything dry off the line but I think the rest will have to stay there til tomorrow now. Just realised that this time last year we were at Hesfes – seems a hell of a lot longer than a year ago that…