Sung to the tune of Kaiser Chiefs Ruby. Just because we’ve all been singing that all day today. We had it on in the car and then Julie put Kaiser Chiefs cd on at their house and later we were in the garden with all four children in the playhouse and realised they were all singing a little chorus of it – very cute and funny :). So we’ve been singing everything to that tune today ‘do you, do you want a sausage? Ah ah ah ah ah’.
I’ve realised this afternoon that it is actually 16th June today, not 17th. No idea where I got the dates muddled but I thought it was 15th June on Thursday, was writing 16th June on everything at work yesterday (luckily books get date stamped rather than written in otherwise everyone would be bringing their books back late in 3 weeks :oops:) and thought it was our 14th anniversary today – which actually it isn’t until tomorrow :oops:, so thanks for anniversary wishes and twitters, will read them all again tomorrow :).
I was reading my diary entry for 17th June 1993 earlier today, the day Ady and I got together. It’s not suitable for copying here but suffice to say everything I gushed about back then still holds true today – and more. There’s another entry about 3 weeks afterwards talking about how Ady and I have talked about getting married and having babies one day, we were always serious from day one really. We’ve proved a lot of people who knew us back then wrong by still being together 14 years later, indeed married and indeed with babies. We’ve been through a fair bit together, faced a lot of challenges and had a lot of adventures. Our relationship remains the thing I am probably most proud of in my life, the constant I can always rely on and in reading my own words from 14 years ago I recall sitting there knowing this was for keeps even then.
I had a rough night’s sleep last night, waking with the birds at about 4am and struggling to get back to sleep again thanks to their noise. Made me think twice about cockerels I can tell you ;). So I really cut it fine getting up this morning, getting out of bed, dressed, kids dressed, everyone in the car, me dropped off and sitting in the hairdressers chair within 20 minutes :). As a last minute decision as I walked into the hairdressers I had a fair bit chopped off, it looks really nice and I’m pleased with it, bit odd to feel breeze on my neck though :).
Ady and the children came and picked me up and we came home and got all the camping stuff together ready for next week stacked up in the garage. The children were really helpful, going and getting and things together, loading boxes up and so on. They are really excited about camp specifically and camping generally. And with a weekend we’ve planned with Chris and Julie today we have 4 camping trips already booked up ready for the summer. 🙂
This afternoon we’ve been over to Chris and Julie’s for a barbecue. It’s Chris’ birthday on Monday so we also had chocolate cake (contraband foodstuff in the normal way over there 😉 ). It was a lovely afternoon actually, lots of music, singing, chatting, playing, drawing and lovely food. We left there just in time to get home for Doctor Who, Scarlett tolerated about half of if before deciding she really didn’t like the pointy teeth future beings and heading off to bed. Davies watched it and I drooled over Captain Jack and I’m now drooling over James Nesbitt in Jekyll and Hyde.
you truly are real campers now!
Comment by HelenHaricot — 16 June 2007 @ 8:38 pm
Breeze on your neck? Short then! On Flickr yet? Will go and look.
James Nesbitt? Yuck. Watched that whislt doing other stuff becuase I thought it was a one-off and was mildly curious. Thought it was shit.
Comment by Alison — 16 June 2007 @ 10:17 pm
No photos yet, not as short as you’re imagining probbaly, more the bottom of the back of my neck 😉
I think its the accent with JN more than how he looks although he does have that damaged thing going on that I like.
Comment by Nic — 16 June 2007 @ 10:25 pm
Damaged? The man’s been coupled up longer than you, came from the most secure family ever, is the youngest kid in his family (only son with lots of big sisters), earns a fucking fortune for having an accent (and can’t do any others – calls himself an actor???) and lives in a huge house in south London with his lovely wife and daughters. The man’s no more damaged than my fridge.
Comment by Alison — 16 June 2007 @ 10:29 pm
(Sorry, am in ranting mood, lol!)
Comment by Alison — 16 June 2007 @ 10:29 pm
s’ok, was quite exciting 😉
I give you this from wikipedia in defence of my ‘damaged and therefore needs resucing’ score for him
In 2002 a tabloid newspaper printed allegations that he had a two-month affair with a legal secretary and had snorted cocaine at his Manchester flat.[10] Further claims were made that he had affairs with Cold Feet co-star Kimberley Joseph, a former Miss Ireland and a 17-year old prostitute. He would later put these down to the pressures of fame
Comment by Nic — 16 June 2007 @ 11:21 pm
Hmmm, well seeing as he’s still apparently happily married, I’d say they back up my jammy dodger theory 😉 Pressures of fame, my arse – they were there and I couldn’t say no 😆
Comment by Alison — 16 June 2007 @ 11:41 pm
And bottom of the back of your neck is still pretty short 🙂
Comment by Alison — 16 June 2007 @ 11:41 pm
thought if I don’t get on a jury this week I might get my hair cut short. Then again that would mean setting foot in a hairdressers …
Comment by Sarah — 17 June 2007 @ 6:50 am
oh and I didn’t say it yesterday so happy anniversary on the right day!
Comment by Sarah — 17 June 2007 @ 6:51 am
Happy Anniversary!
Comment by Ali — 17 June 2007 @ 11:34 am
Happy Anniversary!
Can’t wait to see the hair.
Comment by Lucy — 17 June 2007 @ 12:14 pm
It was dire. For some reason he seemed to think Hyde should be a cross between Jack’s The Joker and the Mask bloke. Awful. The dialogue was dreadful, they kept adding bits to explain things to the very last detail.
Comment by Chris — 17 June 2007 @ 1:55 pm
lol – didn’t actually watch it for long, just happened to be on whle I was blogging and I was enjoying glancing up and watching him every so often 😉
Comment by Nic — 17 June 2007 @ 2:05 pm
Probably improved by the mute button.
Comment by Chris — 18 June 2007 @ 9:19 am
But I like his voice, even if he was spouting utter tripe on that occassion 🙂
Comment by Nic — 18 June 2007 @ 10:10 am