Scarlett brought me a cup of tea in bed this morning 🙂 I’d been awake a while listening to the others watching Pirates of the Carribbean 3 on dvd. Dad appeared first thing and ended up staying all morning and having breakfast and lunch with us. It was great to see him 🙂 I’m going to miss him very much this coming year although he has promised they will come and find us regularly wherever we are.
I suspect my parents are in the middle of one of their falling out with other episodes, this was backed up by Mum pulling into our road at lunchtime but never appearing, she must have seen Dad’s van here and driven past 🙁 I had a bit of a moan about a few things she has done wrong just recently (several of which I was quite hurt by but I’m determined to just get over as I really don’t want to fall out with her just before we go) which he will probably use in ammunition against her so I’ll regret having mentioned as now she’ll probably hear about it anyway. Kids eh? Oh yeah, wait I mean parents eh? 😉
Ady did tree lopping. We have an old dead cherry tree in our garden that we planted some ivy at the foot of years ago and the ivy had totally covered the old dead tree. We do trim it a bit most years as it grows pretty furiously and snatches light from our lounge and edges rather close to the telephone wires above it. Two of our neighbours had asked Ady if he could possibly take it smaller before we go as they have a complicated method of signalling each other using lights and our tree was restricting their vision of each others lights. So Ady took it right back to almost the bare dead tree again. It will grow back over in a year or two but means it will be maintenance free for the tenants.
Davies and Scarlett spent some time playing outside and ‘helping’ which mostly involved taking turns climbing up the ladder and having a go with the loppers aswell as whittling sticks that had been cut off. Then they came in and wanted a bath as they were rather covered in ivy pollen so they spent about an hour in the bath playing.
Ady came in for lunch, the kids got out of the bath and then Dad left. I had a phonecall from Mike the letting agent to say they have had some credit checks and landlord references back from the tenants and all seems well which is good 🙂 .
Ady did some trips to the tip with the tree loppings and then we all went on the last run and drove on into town. We got Scarlett some waterproof walking-style boots and some socks (I know 😯 Scarlett, socks!), both kids a set of thermals (leggings and tops) and a pair of waterproof over trousers for Davies. That more or less kits everyone out for the start of the trip I think :).
Home via two supermarkets as the first didn’t have everything we needed. The kids had tea watching Total Wipeout, they got out Davies Gruffalo theatre book and put on the play instead of a story at bedtime and spent ages playing at being Secret Agents dressed in their thermals (all black) which they have both gone to bed in as pjs :).
Ady:
Bad: No pepperoni in Morrisons!
Good: Tree lopped
Learnt: Pigeons carry on coming even when tree has gone
Davies:
Bad: didn’t whole film
Good: watched some of the film
Learnt: chicken anatomy
Scarlett:
Bad: pigeons tree chopped down
Good: Excited about WWOOFing
Learn: my shoe size
Nic:
Bad: Mum just drove past
Good: Dad came round
Learnt: you’re never too old to be immature 😉
You have funny neighbours. I bet you’re going to miss all of them too, aren’t you? 😉