Somehow we are managing to fit ‘everything’ in at the moment (although keeping the kids up til 10pm is probably helping 😉 ), I am feeling like we are getting a bit of educational stuff in, they are doing stacks of running around and socialising and I am staying calm, sane, stress free and enjoying being with friends too 🙂 Long may it last – I am not even spending much money!
Spent a short period of time catching up on some of the blogs – have not been round to all of them yet but I’m getting there! Davies was busy in the playroom constructing some sort of city with emergency vehicles, cars, lorries and so on. Tarly wandered in with a box of dominos I had bought half price from ELC yesterday (they are colour coded and numbered) so I showed her how to play and she very quickly got the hang of that. Then Davies appeared so we played a game all three of us and I left them playing it together while I went to get dressed. (I later saw at least two other games going on with various children today so that was a wise £1.50 investment!). They also did some drawing and Davies did a bit of writing to label his pictures, I had to call time on that when he got the glue and glitter out to decorate one and Tarly got hold of it when he’d finished – the carpet still has a disco feel to it when the light catches it right 🙂
Gathered them both up to whizz to the supermarket for supplies for today and tomorrow night’s get together at Ros’ and they behaved like angels as I grabbed meat, salad stuff, fruit and tortillas (if Joyce goes home with just one memory from Sussex it will be that we all use a lot of chemical cleaning products and eat loads of tortillas washed down with Pimms!) My phone had died battery wise last night and I’d forgotten to charge it up so had to go without it which was quite strange given how much texting I’ve been doing of late.
Hung washing out, made pimms, made sandwiches and hoovered up a bit more glitter before Ros, Buzz and Boo arrived. We ate most of the sandwiches (with a little modification 😉 ) and made an admirable start on the Pimms before the Westwaters arrived bringing Pea with them. Kids proceeded to get naked, sandy, wet and grubby, Bob set off for some serious cycling while Joyce, Ros and I continued with the Pimms and the tortilla chips and the chatting. The topics of conversation got gradually more bizare and random and probably not repeatable even if I could manage to capture the beginnings and ends of them to write them down anyway! Slightly subdued by the news from London which meant a few phone calls to check on loved ones before we continued.
Ros took her brood off to do karate in the sea (!) Ady had arrived home so he sparked up his barbecue, I did some titivating with skewers and salads, made a fruit punch creation as we’d run out of Pimms and had a slight to do with Tarly when I had to forcibly remove her from sitting under Ady while he was cooking – she did bring me a peace offering flower afterwards mind you :-). An early end to it tonight as everyone was tired and had probably peaked at about 4pm with a conversation about space orbiting sperm (you had to be there!), we’ve done some tidying, kids are asleep, I’ve finally got all the clean washing I’d been hiding in places away from Joyce’s eyes put away properly and tomorrow is another, equally manic day 🙂
Blimey, I can’t keep up with all this! Glad you’re having such a blast; don’t wear yourselves out before our do 🙂
Comment by Alison — 21 July 2005 @ 11:55 pm
a mad mad social whirl or what?
Comment by jax — 22 July 2005 @ 9:11 am
Quote of the day from Hannah “nic has very flexible fingers, doesn’t she?”
Comment by Joyce — 22 July 2005 @ 9:38 am
My god it’s like a clique within a clique. Might have to unextend the party invites if you are all just gonna sit in the corner and clique some more…
Comment by Chris — 22 July 2005 @ 10:29 am
You were invited!
Comment by Roslyn — 22 July 2005 @ 11:41 am
You could come down this evening if you feel left out 🙂
Comment by Roslyn — 22 July 2005 @ 11:43 am
🙂 Would have come (invited or not, lol!) but the girls have got an end-of-term thing at Girls Brigade, and want to go to that. Will just have to wait until next weekend …
Comment by Alison — 22 July 2005 @ 12:43 pm
Never mind!
Comment by Roslyn — 22 July 2005 @ 1:28 pm
Ah right, now I see. The short last post and I thought it was the Reader’s Digest MT blog, now I realise, of course, more posts per day!
Comment by Tim — 22 July 2005 @ 7:23 pm
how about if we invite you into our clique? will that swing it? and i use the word swing there in a purely non suggestive manner 😉
Comment by Nic — 23 July 2005 @ 12:30 am