Category : Seasonal
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Aaaaah! Lovely!
It's sooooo hot! Really nice after all the cruddy cold, rainy weather recently *smiles* However, it's not good when you go shopping - we went to Tesco this afternoon and nearly melted in the car on the way home.
Been looking through yesterdays Sopley photos again. I have to say I think I look like poo and it's really depressing because I don't actually look like that - I really don't! I just totally hate having my photo taken and always, without fail, end up either looking grumpy or pulling a stupid face (or I get caught at the wrong angle and just look plain fat!) Anyway, we were mucking around with my new camera again this afternoon (so many functions on it - so confusing!) and snapping away at each other and here are some results (Tim forced me to delete the ones of him - he hates having his picture taken even more than me!) Really trying hard to get some up to date pics at the moment because all the ones on the photo page are really getting old now.
Me having a cuddle with April (you WILL have a cuddle ha! ha!) See what I mean about me and photos though?! I look like I'm asleep! S'pose my hair looks ok *grumble grumble*
Rosie being very, very silly! She also looks a bit ill ... bad lighting I think
April "look at my sandy hands!"
I'm hoping our upcoming holiday will afford some better photos opportunities .. but I'm not getting my hopes up. *Grumble grumble again*
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Feeling fruity
This afternoon we headed out to one of our favourite places - Sopley Farm in Hampshire. It's a pick your own place and I'm pretty sure I blogged about it last year because we love it - they do the best raspberries EVER. Honestly, I've never tasted any better they are gorgeous.
Anyway, the weather was fantastic today so we had a good walk and came back with truckloads (ok, I exagerate!) of fruit - raspberries, strawberries, redcurrants and rhubarb. It also gave me the change to practice with my new camera again so here are some pics AND a little vid of patched together clips ... still getting the "rumbly" sound when we record stuff - will have to work out why. Right at the end of the video is a shot of some eggs in a nest we found amongst the strawberries. No idea what bird they came from but they looked abandoned which is a bit sad.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
What a day!
Had a fantastic, albeit up and downy day today :)
Tim got up and made me breakfast in bed and I had my pressies and cards - my new camera from him and Lush smellies from the kids. Then I decided to put the computer on and install the drivers for my camera. Nothing. Hmmm. It wasn't doing anything when I put the power on so (again!) along comes James and sorts it out. Not sure what was wrong but he said it might have been something to do with a power surge.
So, we had lunch and then James went home and we got to play with my new camera - in a big way!
Rosie was in the garden and heard a rustling sound in the bushes. When she looked she saw a grass snake wrestling with the biggest toad I've ever seen! Tim went racing down the garden with the camera (that I haven't got to use yet *laughs*) and got a brilliant picture AND a short video. The snake had fastened it's jaws around the toads head and was dragging it around however, I think it had bitten off more than it could chew because, despite fighting with it for about half an hour, it just couldn't eat it! In the end the snake gave up and disappeared and the toad, although shaken, hopped off apparently unharmed.
Here's the (utterly brilliant) photo Tim took - if you click on it you get the bigger version. It looks like the snake was just resting it's head on the toads back but it actually had it's jaws wide open round it.
If you want to see the wrestling match in action, I stuck the vid on You Tube. It's very short, only about 11 seconds and it's a bit gruesome really! The thing to remember is that the toad survived this *smiles*
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Wakey! Wakey!
Aaaah! I love this time of the day during the summer! The kids are fed and have gone off outside to play and I'm relaxing with a (must have!) cup of tea ... checking emails, reading blogs and just browsing before I have to get on with my day.
It's wonderfully quiet! Tim's gone to work which is nice - not that I can't wait to get rid of my husband obviously (ha!), just that in a rather quaint and old fashioned way it feels "right". I like our little routine every day he works where he gives me a kiss while I'm still tucked up in bed (alright, he says "bye-bye" and I say "bllluuugggh" because i'm half asleep and then he gives me a kiss!) He goes off and I doze for a little longer before getting up and enjoying some peaceful time while the kids are still asleep. It's nice - I have tea, do yoga, snuggle Hemmy (because he demands it by following me around like a faithful puppy dog!), sometimes read, listen to the birds singing. It's a gorgeous peaceful start to the day.
I like kind of going about my business over the day and then looking forward to Tim getting home and having a huge cuddle (and yes, I do rather like the sight of him in his work clothes - not that his work clothes are very exciting, but you know what I mean ;) It's the old "manly, husbandly, provider" type thing )
So, I hope today will be like that *smiles*
Yesterday was pretty awful and I still have stuff on my mind which I can't (or don't want to!) share here. All I will say is that I just wish that certain elements of my life would iron themselves out and then leave me alone. I need complete freedom of unwanted thoughts to be able to function properly and right now I've got waaaay too many unwanted thoughts charging round my brain.
I've also got the very strong feeling that someone (although who, I have no idea!) is spending a lot of time thinking about me .... call it female intuition I guess, but that's another (crazy) story altogether.
Have a good day whatever you're doing *smiles*
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Shoe-free
I just love this hot weather - I can go without shoes!! Yay!! I HATE shoes, I like my feet to be free :)
Lately, we've done a tonne of gardening (ok, Tim has done a load of gardening!), completely blitzed Rosie's bedroom and re-arranged it a bit (I did that!), enjoyed Springwatch (nearly finished sob!) and had a barbeque and my brother came over for that.
I've been writing a home ed curriculum (secular, Montessori based, multi age) but more about that some other time soon!
April went to nursery on Monday and came home looking a little worse for wear due to the (stifling) hot weather. She was drenched in sweat and looking a bit pasty - it took 2 cups of juice, a Mini Milk and being undressed down to her nappy to get her cool again and she didn't seem too happy. I kind of thought, if she's like this after 2 and a half hours what the hell would she be like after a whole day?!! Just another thing to strengthen my resolve to home ed her I think - I can't think of anything worse than being baked in school all day (in fact I can remember it well from when it happened to me!) I especially can't imagine an outdoor child like April being especially happy in hot school for pretty much all the day :(
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Sun, sun and more sun
Oh! how I love this weather - suddenly feel so much younger and very, very silly *laughs*. Tim and I had to wash something outside earlier with the garden hose with the inevitable result of a bit of childish playing going on!
Rosie has gone to Abbotsbury today with grandma, grandpa and Luke so it was just me, Tim and April at home. This morning we went to Tesco and picked up some essentials (including sun lotion!) and not-essential-but-essential (if you see what I mean!) things like yummy egg custard tarts (which we thoroughly enjoyed for tea!). Also picked up April a preschool letter learning pack with sticker book, colouring book and wipe clean workbook. Was then astonished to see her sit down with the wipe clean book and trace over some letters almost perfectly! She has amazing pen control for a 3 year old! She also recognised a load of the letters and was matching them up to pictures. Anyway, here's her page of traced letters :)
Aprils also spent ages outside today playing with a bowl of water, painting and hunting for ants so she's a very happy little girl. She would spend ALL day outside if we let her - hmmmm, a great candidate for being shut up in school full time - NOT!
Tonight, Tim and I are going to relax with a bottle of VERY chilled white wine and Young Musician of the Year on telly. Perfect :)
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