Firstly woo and also hoo as Ady is not only having Monday off (hurrah, a bank holiday off 🙂 And we have proper bank holiday stylee plans and everything!) he is also able to come to Kessingland for the whole week instead of just the weekends either end. This is fantabulous news as I was starting to get really quite twitchy about the thought of camping in general, specifically in drought conditions 😉 and despite telling myself and the children it would be ‘An Adventure’ I don’t think any of us were believing me. It also means (depending on how clever we are with our packing) we may even get away with just the one car – Ady’s – which will save petrol money too – hurrah 🙂
I had a really crap nights’ sleep, I fell asleep on the sofa and staggered up to bed around 2am and then was awake again during the night (what was left of it) so I slept in til 9am with the children coming to visit to ask for things like ice lollies for breakfast. I said yes to everything – god, I’m neglectful 😳 I felt much better for a bit of a catch up sleep though and got up and made them proper peanut butter on toast breakfast too.
We then headed over to Ali’s via the Wizard store where I bought them both a small notebook each to use as their own ‘diary books’ so they were very pleased with that and crunchies for everyone, cos it is Friday 🙂 – oh what a successful ad campaign that one was!
Rain prevented the outdoor play all the children were after and J was working from home in the cupboard (did your Tesco order ever arrive Ali?) but we managed some good chats despite many and varied interuptions covering areas as diverse as religion, liberal and capitalist views, dream locations to live, selfishness, education and loads more – nice to have proper grown up conversations, so really enjoyed that 🙂 Freya and Davies were putting on one of their fairly frequent double acts – this time Davies was ‘playing’ a harmonica and Freya was dancing and twirling so we told them about Caberet Night at Kessingland and said they could do and act to perform to the crowd if they wanted. This idea was met with much enthusiasm so they did lots of practising, lots of dress rehearsals to us and ever more extravagent introductions to their own act. I have a feeling it may just be Davies and Freya followed by Alison, Layla and I at Caberet Night but at least we won’t let the side down. (Actually I suspect if that is the case Alison, Layla and I will just keep singing ever more drunkenly until others either join in, come up with an impromptu act to shut us up or simply throw food at us til we stop! 😆 ) They also played with Freya’s fab new gears set thing and them Davies played for ages at the end with Ali’s Fun Blox, prompting Ali to very kindly lend them to us til we next see them – you’ll be pleased to know he didn’t stop playing with them the whole afternoon and Scarlett joined in too, so thanks again for that Ali. 🙂
Home for tea, listening to Mary Poppins cd there and back in the car. When Ady got home I dashed off to Tesco to do food shopping for next week and a few bits and bobs for Kessingland now I am viewing it with renewed excitement as a holiday rather than my own personal week long version of Big Brother 😉
Looking forward to a busy weekend so don’t know how much I’ll be around blogging.
Arsing Tesco van had crashed and order is cancelled (they had a spate of these last year when there was a driver who frequently smelt a bit beery and looked about 14 yrs old).
So shopping tomorrow, but actually that’s OK – excuse to go to Waitrose instead.
Glad Davies is really enjoying Fun Blox – they will get renewed novelty value when they return here too so everyone’s a winner.
Freya is currently in bed playing the harmonica.
We did cover quite some conversational range there. Well done us.
actually SB is planning to do a freestyle dance routine – you had better all clap and cheer!
Yay for Ady!!!! Really glad for you 🙂