Just to see if it works really!
Had a lovely day yesterday at Ros’ open house. Ady managed to arrange his day so he could pick us up at lunchtime and drop us off at Ros’ then do some local stores to Eastbourne and come back after work. The main benefit of this was not that he got to see Ros and Tony too you understand although that was a happy addition, it was so that I could participate in festive mulled wine drinking! 🙂
I think we were the last to arrive so my two made themselves at home straightaway – Davies dashed off to play with Buzz and co, Scarlett joined me in the kitchen where the cheesy balls and mulled wine were. She did disappear for a while into the conservatory where Ros had thoughtfully provided glitter, glue, paper, card and other festive crafty bits for the children to chuck around the place and cover the tablecloth with! She also played with Pea and Boo lots later in the afternoon which was nice to watch. I spent most of my time there perched on a worktop in the kitchen talking to Let, who as Ros has previously mentioned and I am now able to confirm is lovely 🙂 She drinks and bitches too, so we got on very well! Also chatted to the procession of other HE folk who popped in and out of the kitchen – an ecclectic mix from the charming to the downright odd!
Ros then insisted (although I didn’t take much persuading!) that we all gather in the parlour for singing so we did that which was excellent and then people started to drift away. Ady arrived back and Ros very kindly fed our children (and offered to feed us too!) while Ady, Buzz and Davies watched films on the huge screen and the girls all made each other glittery things. Tony came home and we stayed for a bit more chatting before heading off for home.
Pictures of the day at Ros’ are here.ho
Tarly fell asleep on the way, Davies was asleep shortly afterwards, we had late dinner of curry that I’d bunged in the oven before we left and then I wrapped all the kids’ presents while watching Lost and topping up the alcohol level in my blood which had dipped to a frighteningly nearly sober level!
I then watched a really interesting programme about Live 8 before heading off to bed.
This morning I have been super efficient again – put all the clean, dry washing away, matched up loads of odd socks (in the summer I match them on the line and we never end up with odd ones, in the winter somehow we end up with loads of odd ones, what’s that about then?), cleaned the fish tank out and got another two loads of washing sorted. I’m waiting in for the IVA people to ring me back and let me know exactly what is going on and then we need to pop out to deliver two more Christmas cards and get a couple of bits. The children are playing a mazes game on the pc and exercising autonomy to it’s limits, I have a plan to make some home made sweets later for pressies for my parents so I might enlist their help in that, and in decorating some wrappings for them if we make them.
Tonight I’m going to the supermarket with my Mum to assist in the selection of festive food for the weekend, which I imagine will be a living bightmare! And I think that’s about it!
Thank you for coming 🙂
I thougth I had managed to sort the house out until the cold light of day LOL! The floors are STILL filthy.
Great piccies.
Comment by Roslyn — 22 December 2005 @ 11:26 am