I noticed there were two lots of in other news on the last post. So this entire update is brought to you by way of other news.
Yesterday in other news Ady went to work with Chainsaw Dave on fixing the Pajero. It is more fixed than it was in that it now more or less starts but it is still not very fixed at all in that it does not go more than 10mph and always has a comedy Wacky Races style cloud of black smoke coming from the rear which we call our built in midge repellent but is actually the car slowly and very high profile dying.
I made various bread dough mixes for bagels, rolls and bread, helped the kids with some spellings and talked lots about penpals and friendships through the post and we had lunch. The kids took Bonnie off for an adventure and I went to do some polytunnel sorting.
Ady came home and brought me down a cup of tea, I took the car back to the other side of the river with him and we had a sensible timed dinner.
In other news today we had bacon sandwiches for breakfast which always feels slightly decadent but we had left over bacon defrosted from yesterday. I knitted some squares as I have a plan to sow knitted squares patchwork style to a fleece I don’t wear as a fleece to make a sort of home made jacket. I might do some freeform crochet stuff on it too. I live on an island, there is hardly anyone to judge me fashion wise!
The kids had a letter from a friend they made back in the summer here to say she was coming for the weekend camping with her parents probably today so we all went down to the pier to meet the boat. She didn’t come and when we looked at the letter again tonight it says maybe tomorrow morning so they will go with Ady to meet that boat too. They were a bit sad about that 🙁 We took some of the shop delivery in our car along with our own co op delivery so went to the shop to drop that off, walked round to put some stuff in the freezer and then waved the others off home while I went to do a social media training workshop. I know, I know…. but Lucy (lovely Eigg woman) gets paid to deliver them and I do always learn something new from her every time.
Ady and the kids came back down at 5pm and we stopped for a beer at the shop before coming home for pizza.
In other news we are trying to find something interesting to order on dvd to watch. I am so over Disney pixar films and the internet is super slow and buffer-y. We have cancelled our Lovefilm membership as we discovered we can buy a couple of dvds a month for the same money and the post turnaround here is so slow we were only getting through two discs a month anyway. I think we have done all the family films I can think of so we were looking at series to get stuck into that are suitable for Davies and Scarlett to watch. We’ve done Red Dwarf, Miranda, Black Books and the first series of Lead Balloon. I was pondering Friends – it needs to be funny, not sci-fi and kid suitable (within reason, Black Books is a 15!). Suggestions gratefully received.
Did you see the jacket I made with squares over a fleece?http://mumbojumbo-mumb.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/made-with-love.html
Emma says it’s really warm and used all my leftovers 🙂
Comment by Beryl — 19 October 2013 @ 10:35 am
yep, i was going to say em has a fab fleece with squares – always gets admired whenever she wears it 🙂
Comment by hharicot — 19 October 2013 @ 11:05 pm
I reckon Friends is kind ofmore enjoyable if you’re 14/15, not cos there’s anything age innappropriate but just cos it’s ALL about adult relationships. What about Roseanna? About family dynamics and has kids in it.
Comment by Heather — 20 October 2013 @ 7:08 pm
Beryl I had forgotten about your fleece for Em, yes I had seen it before and it is probably where I got the idea from 🙂
We’ve tried Roseanne with D&S, Ady loves it but the kids didnt get it and kept getting distracted by who the voices of everyone reminded them of – That sounds like Sully, Is that the Mum from Toy Story?! 🙂
Comment by Nic — 20 October 2013 @ 9:56 pm
lol at them recognising the voices- I guess the humour and references might be a bit dated, I just liked the female roles in it (and I had a secret crush on Darlene spanning a good few years) What about the adventures of merlin? Poppy and Sim enjoyed that. Oh God, and when we first arrived in NZ in early 2007 we were put up in a motel that had Sky TV and poppy found this show- H20, just add water- that she still goes goey over the theme tune to, but I hated it.
Comment by Heather — 20 October 2013 @ 11:26 pm
I just ordered Roseanne on Fatso now- you inspired me to think of a show I really want to watch in its entirety with both girls (Maya too young for ER and we’re on S11 already): cheers!
Comment by Heather — 20 October 2013 @ 11:30 pm