Monday

Almost there, almost there!

Monthly HE Pulborough Brooks walk day and the ideal chance to catch up with Tasha and Toby and Julie, Jack, Maisie and Lorna all in one go.

The weather was lovely and with eating cereal in the car and hauling out of bed we managed to collect Tasha and co at the agreed time of 10am. Needing to get petrol and loading two more children and pushchair into the car always seeming to take longer than you expect meant we were about 20 minutes later than the usual meeting time but we caught up with the group about halfway round and were greeted by some of the children wanting to show me a dead mouse (because clearly that’s the sort of thing I’d want to be viewing ;)).

It was a nice walk, didn’t see any adders or wildlife really but the children enjoyed walking along and I got to chat to Tasha and another couple of women when we caught them up which was nice. One particulaly, E, is really nice and lives a few doors down from Chris and Julie but I rarely see so it was nice to have a catch up and chatter with her :).

Back at the park Julie and co had already arrived as they have been coming for the picnic and play and then doing the walk round on their own afterwards instead of rushing to get there for 1030am. Had a good catch up with them and all the kids played really well together. Davies and Scarlett would have liked to have Tasha and co back here or gone back to theirs but I was keen to get more washing done and catch up on more online stuff so we dropped them home and came home to do just that.

Davies and Scarlett watched Moonwalker while I uploaded more photos (I found if I only do 20 at a time it doesn’t crash, bet that doesn’t work next time though and is still rather laborious when you have 400 to do ;)) and caught up on blogging and various other online stuff.

My Mum and Ady arrived at the same time, Mum returning the allotment key as she’d been up there a couple of times during the week to water. Had a chat with her and then I nipped up to water the allotment and check on everything while Ady tidied up and the kids played with Lego. When I got back we read some stories and they went off to bed. Ady cooked and we watched the second Torchwood.