Today we’d arranged to head over to Caz and Bid’s, both to see them and to give them various bits cleared from our garden / garage that they might find useful.
Caz was not there but the kids went off to play and Ady and I had a nice couple of hours with Bid and Harry, a guy who also lives there.
We came home via Lancing as Davies wanted to get the Pirates of the Caribean on dvd from the library and we had a pile of stuff to take back. While there we also popped to the toy shop as they sell buckets of plasticine. I’d got Davies one for Christmas, which psp aside has been by far the most played with present and Scarlett has been wistfully looking at it. Both kids are fairly cash rich at the moment so she decided to spend some of her money on a tub of her own. It is funny how a toy both Ady and I recall getting for Christmas as kids still has such timeless appeal. We have had loads of fun with Davies’ already with Ady having several dough-offs where the kids get to shout out something for us to make and then judge our efforts – currently I have won safari jeep, statue of liberty and Christmas tree but Ady won on dragon 😆 no worries about us making our own family entertainment in the van next year 😆
Back at home we watched some TV, the kids played with said plasticine and did some drawing, Ady cooked their dinner, Ady and I did an inventory on the freezers as we are utterly broke this month thanks to the car and so food shopping as the only flexible expense will be on a very tight budget. It’s no bad thing to be running the freezer and cupboards down I guess anyway.
I had a very, very long bath with strict instructions that no one come in to have a poo, tell me about something they have made, seen on tv, thought about, want to sing to me. It was very enjoyable with a glass of wine and a book by one of my favourite chick-lit authors. 🙂
I got out as Ady was reading some of Mr Stink to the kids and made a couple of quiches – one for dinner tonight, one for the freezer. The kids went to bed, Ady and I ate and watched a TV programme about Rolf Harris (he’s so cool 🙂 ) and tomorrow we get to dismantle Christmas and put the house back together along with a good clean in preparation for that flood of prospective tenants we’re expecting from next week.