Telephone exchanges click when there’s nobody there…

A good day although nothing of real note happened. Davies played up a bit resulting in a bit of a talking to from Ady – not sure whether to feel vindicated that he winds me up sometimes and it’s not just me, or sorry for him that he gets my wrath all the week and then Ady has a turn at the weekend!

I got up with the small people at 5.30 (again – urgh! but I do get to lie in tomorrow!) and did stuff I can’t even recall with them now til 9am when Ady got up, we all got dressed, went to Chichester to take back the courtesy hoover we have been using while ours was being fixed and collected our one back, then went to Chris and Julie’s.

We had a nice time, although it was very cold the kids dressed up in coats and had a good old run round the garden, at one point Ady, Davies and Scarlett spent about half an hour playing with a football, which was lovely to witness – through no fault of his own he doesn’t get enough time with them like that and all three of them really enjoyed it. Much tea was drunk and the whole world put to rights, we talked about Christmas and various other things including FIAR and curriculums in general, business ideas and other HE stuff. We had been looking at Davies and Scarlett’s baby photos when Julie was over in the week and today she dug out the twins baby photos which I had never seen before and stood marvelling at how just two years ago they were all teeny tiny babies (or in Scarlett’s case minus one month from even being born and Davies’ case just two himself) and were now running round the garden, starting to talk and be little people. All very nice and familyish (know thats not a word, but hopefully you all kwim!), then rounded it off with a pop into my parents house with a McDonalds happy meal each for the kid’s tea.

Dad had the fire (real open, log burning) lit which was great educationally – we talked about heat, how to put fires out, what fires could do, how when Grandad was a boy they did all their cooking and heating of water on the fire (remote welsh village with no electricity – as the kids get older and Dad gets his head round the whole HE idea he will be a fab history resource!), how they used toasting forks and copper kettles (both features on the fireplace) and how Grandad used a big tin bath infront of the fire when he ‘was a lad!’. We also talked about how one of Dad’s uncle’s (his Dad was one of 14) had died in infancy through falling into the fire etc. Ady was very very nervous about Scarlett and the fire, but as I grew up in that house with a fire there every winter, and possibly know that even Scarlett would be driven back by the heat long before she got anywhere near the actual flames I just enjoyed childhood memories of sitting infront of it years ago. We actually have an open fire here and have been debating whether to light it this year (chimney needs sweeping) I think we might just do so actually. It all tied in well with Davies having ‘helped’ Chris chop logs for their firewood earlier too, so that was good.

Then home and Ady has cooked a lovely dinner which we ate while watching BJD on C4, having watched X Factor (thought G4 were fab, as were Voices with Soul, Tabby was pretty good too – have just realised we missed the second show and checked to find who left – won’t say who incase anyone is watching it on ITV2 tomorrow but I was quite surprised…)

Tomorrow we are planning to sort out the location of our greencone, getting our Christmas decs from the garage for a sort out and then over to Mum and Dads for lunch… so a pretty lazy weekend really!

Oh and finally… took the kids to have their feet measured today as I was convinced they had both outgrown their but they are both still fine in their current shoes – hurrah! (feel far more justified about following Kirsty’s link to Bob books on Amazon and topping up my order with the Falling Angels book from Jax’s blog too!!!)