If you were holding a between Christmas and New Year karaoke party

you could stick my name down to do a good Bonnie Tyler Total Eclipse of the Heart, cos I’m dead husky and throaty at the moment. I can also do a darn good Rod Stewart (to be near you, to be freeeeee) or a Kim Carnes Bette Davis eyes but I don’t do that around the children, the whole Bette Davis thing confuses them :lol:.

Today we needed to venture out for proper food. We do this every year, stock up just before Christmas with all sorts of party food but utterly forget the essentials. It’s fine on Boxing Day to be eating cheese straws, posh cheese and smoked salmon but by 27th you really want real dinners again, not to mention essentials like bread and milk :lol:. So we went to Tesco where we also got Tarly her first pair of school shoes – not for school you understand, but she has to have black shoes for Badgers, and white socks (I know, Tarly in socks!). She’ll only need to wear them for the one hour a week and looks decidedly un-Tarly-like but then I was sort of expecting that. She needs a black skirt too and then she’ll get her tshirt and jumper from Badgers. I’ve told her she’ll have to have her hair tied back for Badgers too, the first day at Badgers picture will be amusing, I don’t think I’ll recognise her at all 😆

Home for a quick lunch and some Walking With Dinosaurs which we’ve enjoyed dipping into over the last couple of days and has prompted much talk of evolution, various ages, how things died out and so on. Then off to the circus! I was feeling a bit rough still so Ady made me take some Day Nurse which had me up for anything in half an hour :lol:. The circus was fab 🙂 I’d got tickets at the weekend when we got paid as an after Christmas ‘something to look forward to’. In previous years we’ve gone to the pantomime (Worthing usually has two) but tickets for the four of us were close to £50 so the circus with a discount code from the local paper (not even bought, I copied it from the copy at work, mwah-ha-ha-ha) made it very affordable.

There were several acts – the traditional clowns, which Davies adored and laughed long and loud at, some foot juggling with fire and everything which was impressive, some balancing, which was pretty good when done with a sword on her forhead but all the more daring when she balanced a table complete with three lit candles and two full glasses of wine, over a 20 feet tall ladder and back down the other side :shock:, there was lassoing and knife throwing, more clowing and then trapeze artists which Scarlett adored (and tried to replicate hanging off the barrier infront of us :lol:). We all really enjoyed it – good all round family entertainment :).

We came home via Argos where we’d reserved some new bedding in their sale online which I paid for with a gift card I’d got when buying Davies’ DS from there. Bath, tea and DSing for the children before bed, bath, dinner and Extras for us. I’m back to work tomorrow so glad to be feeling slightly better and hopeful to be even better (if still slightly husky) tomorrow.