Blogging from a distance!

Yesterday we left the house before 9am – utterly unsociable for any day of the week but particularly a Sunday. 😉 We were heading Reading way for the celebration of Elijah’s sixth birthday which was marked with a pottery painting party. Quite the quietest childrens’ party I’ve ever attended even if I did have to bite back the urge to snatch the pottery off my children and paint it myself – both through control-freakery and cos actually I was jealous and it looked good fun. 😆

There were 13 children in total and they ranged in age from Tarly at 3 to Poppy and nearly 10 and were all utterly absorbed and interested in painting a small animal each (Tarly chose a cat – the pottery woman insisted on calling it a ‘kitty’ but it was a cat 😉 and Davies did a dinosaur), then they all got to paint a plate aswell. Really looking forward to seeing the fired and glazed finished items actually.

That done the children all went outside to play for a while and were called back in again for food. The Clarkes, who had been here for the weekend headed off and the other party attendees drifted off too. Ady left, needing to get back for work tomorrow, Layla and Simon and Claudia came and went and came and went in various combinations and Gamma and Gaffer were here too. It was a lovely day finished off very nicely with a lovely Indian takeaway, plenty of ‘pink wine’ and a rather pleasant lack of having to do a great deal of parenting ;-). D & S went to sleep very quickly around 11pm, although I did sing to them for a while so they dropped off (sorry Chris – hopefully it was lulling and quiet rather than ear busting thrash as usual :lol:) then Alison and I sat and chatted awhile.

This morning I woke first as I had been super-paranoid that we would all oversleep and miss our original reason for being here today which was going to see Monster House for film week. It was not on anywhere locally to us and it was the one film Davies particularly wanted to see so when I saw it was on in Reading it seemed the ideal chance to go in a group. Davies and Tarly slept in the double bed bottom bunk of the triple sleeper and it was really cute to see them all snuggled up together in a tangle of limbs in their sleep. Over the next hour or so everyone else got up and somehow we managed to get on our way to the cinema on time.

Monster House was pretty good I thought. Rather scary – enough to chase Layla, Si and Claudia out again 🙁 Tarly would have gladly left too really but was glad she stuck it out (she had no option) as it did have a ‘happy’ ending. Davies sat on the very end of the row so I had no chance to gauge how he was feeling but he said he really enjoyed it and I guess he would have scrambled over to me during the film if he’d felt in need of a cuddle. 🙂

Home again for lunch, chatting, x boxing and game cubing, playing pussy cats and puppy dogs, being a croupier in full evening dress, drinking lots of tea and general low key pleasantness. Ady is on his way back here after work to take us all home again and tomorrow we are back at the cinema in Brighton for Over the hedge.