was very much in order after our manic week this week. It was my turn for a lie -in which I enjoyed until just before 1oam which possibly accounted more for my lack of hangover than the hardened drinker status I offered to Joyce as a reason 😉
We did have vague and half hearted plans to get to Brighton early this morning for the Dr Who exhibition on the pier but that was not to be so we mainly bumbled about really. Ady cleared out the cupboard under the stairs (home to the chiller and other various assorted crap) which unearthed things pounced upon with delight – me a pair of bright pink birkenstock alikes I had been looking for since May, and the kids some magic colour changing pens which I had clearly stashed there as a result of some drawing on walls misdemeanour last time they were brought out.
I made lunch, Davies watched James and the giant peach on dvd and then I headed off to Asda for some food shopping while they played in the garden on the new water slide and did gardening. Ady has cleared yet more space to turn to lawn by hacking down another of the hedges – we have encouraged hedges to grow around the perimeter for some privacy (those who have been here will understand what I mean by that as our main garden is infact the front garden with just a smallish strip running round the sides and the back of the house) for the years we have been here but now we are starting to value space over privacy and lopping them back a bit. Read an article in Junior about fantastic kiddie gardens and am now hankering after a daffodil maze and a raised platform with a playhouse, a flying fox and a non drownable but fun to play in water feature!
Davies stayed in his pjs all day – only coming out of them to have a bath and put on a clean pair, Tarly as ever was naked for most of the day. Oh, we’re so free range! 😉
Pottered in the garden with the kids when I got back while Ady finished what he was doing with garden power tools, we played snakes and ladders for a bit until I got fed up with Davies’ constant determination to ‘play it my way’ which basically involved throwing the dice, ignoring what it said unless it meant he climbed a ladder and having at least three goes to my every one! Then got out some paint pens and paper and Scarlett joined us in doing some of that in the garden too. They had tea out there and then I dragged them in for a bath and they were packed off to bed.
Dinner was cobbled together from remnants of barbecue food, I’m back on the wine after a week of alternate pimms and abstention, I’ve totally lost track of Big Brother and my phone has never known such frantic text activity. I will be back reading blogs again next week -probably. Although I will also be doing the whole concerned and caring nursie role too after Wednesday when Ady braves the surgeons knife for his wisdom teeth.
Sounds not too far off our day! We’re all zonked! Must be getting old LOL!
Comment by Roslyn — 24 July 2005 @ 10:44 am