and she stayed awake all the way home!
We’ve been to the House Of Ros today 🙂
Now Ros’ house is probably the most representative house of it’s owner I think I’ve ever been to. If you know Ros – and even if you only know her online – and you were in that old gameshow ‘Through the keyhole’ and there were 7 houses to choose from then I reckon everyone would guess Ros’ house straight away! 😉 – except of course Ros is polly pocket sized and her house is not! 😉 Other than that it is warm, it has grand bits, it has chaotic bits, it has beautiful bits, it is full of love and it is full of bits of all of the people who live there.
So Ros and I happily sat on her kitchen worktop chatting and recipe swapping (and yes this is Nic, not some impersonator! 😉 ) and discussing parenting and how children can be very very testing at times (see, it is me!) while the children happily got lost and played. Pea did hotdogs for lunch and Tarly made friends with Kessie.
Then we headed over to Eastbourne to a Science week event put on by the ever amazing Let (you know Ros, I’d love to see Let do Wife Swap – it would be so funny to watch anyone else try and achieve half of what she does) which was all set up with loads of science experiments and loads of local Home Educators. Davies played by himself with a skeleton for a while and then happily rampaged round with a gang of lads in balloon related ladism while Tary worked her way round most of the experiments doing them happily and in her own special Tarly-like way! 😉
Davies was persuaded to do a couple of the experiments but was far happier just being social so I left him to it. Some pics:
more on flickr.
As we left Tarly ran out infront of a car chasing her balloon 🙄 which luckily was going very slowly. The bloke driving it very kindly went and resuced her balloon too and brought it back to her making her promise not to run into roads ever again.
Davies and I managed to keep Tarly awake with tic tacs and the Tumble Tots Action Songs cd all the way home in the car, they’ve had tea and are now ready for bed. Ady’s just rung to say he’s had a good day (doing presentations to 60 people at a time all afternoon – it’s gone well apparently and he’s just finished) and is on his way home.
One minor irritation is that I am suffering from itchy eyes with lots of gunk in them – surely it’s too early yet for hayfever, it was snowing earlier this week!
That was a lovely thing to say! And very true 🙂
Thanks for coming today :-).
If Let did Wife Swap the other person would collapse with exhaustion LOL!
Do you want me to keep the tin to return to you?
Comment by Roslyn — 15 March 2006 @ 6:20 pm
Sounds like a lovely day, I’m very envious …
Comment by Sarah — 15 March 2006 @ 7:33 pm
thanks for having us! And yes please, I’ll have the tin back 🙂
Comment by Nic — 15 March 2006 @ 7:34 pm
sounds really fantastic
Comment by HelenHaricot — 15 March 2006 @ 10:51 pm
Sounds great 🙂
Comment by Jules — 16 March 2006 @ 9:05 am