We have just been left by the Clarkes which is phase one in the blogbumping festival that is Halloween in Sussex ’05 🙂
In the style of 21st century socialising there were at several points three laptops out with no IRL conversation and at least two of us in the same conference IM chat – excellent fun! 😉
Today has been good, reminded me of all that is good about my life, which I think I needed 🙂
Had a fairly laid back morning, I sorted out beef stew and got in in the oven low, cut out some bits for a skeleton game for the party, did some very half hearted tidying (so if Sarah talks about me to any of you and mentions my slovenly ways, ah well!) and generally faffed.
Then we set out (late as ever!) to Havant for the Pumpkin soup thing. It was done by these people and I possibly slightly missed the point of them as I didn’t find it hugely engaging. The children seemed to enjoy it though, although I probably wouldn’t describe them as captivated either. It was aimed at undr 5s and it didn’t really hold Tarly for the whole show and Davies was certainly a touch old for it and was more enjoying it from a production point of view somehow than an actual performance. Cheap though and I’m sort of glad we went. Tarly slept in the car on the way there, which was no bad thing considering the lateness of the hour she retired last evening and how late she went to bed tonight too. Davies said he didn’t feel very well (bird flu!) and sort of dozed a lot of the way which probably did neither of them any great harm.
We left there and headed home via the petrol station and arrived home with just about enough time to do some cosmetic tidying and get some tea on for the children. The Clarkes arrived right in the middle of their specified time window (what a novelty!), Ady arrived about an hour after them and a very pleasant evening was had by all! Set Ady up a yahoo IM account and installed trillian on his laptop (pompeyady for anyone interested although I imagine he will never log in again if I am being realistic!), did some flickring and somewhere inbetween all the technostuff we actually did some IRL chat too ;-). Managed to eat beef stew, drink rather a lot of wine, Ady did stuff with the children including some glitter pictures of fireworks and I think Tarly may have illustrated her particular specialist artistic skill to the Clarke children (eww!) before they had to head off to ‘Beat The Barrier’ at their campsite.
Tomorrow we plan some final touches to party prep, some baking and maybe even a spot of tidying 😉 then again maybe not!
Hope you all have a really lovely time 🙂
Comment by Merry — 28 October 2005 @ 4:59 pm
M loves that Pumpkin Soup book – I wonder if they’re showing round here any time.
Have a great weekend 🙂
Comment by Jan — 28 October 2005 @ 10:25 pm
Ach, we are so pissed off. Got 5 mins out of town and realised black smoke pouring from back of car . Car go to parents, kids cried selves to sleep and i’m not much better 🙁
Comment by Merry — 28 October 2005 @ 11:02 pm