Pressies from Tim and the kids - all things I wanted, all lovely and
gorgeous :) Rosie got me a special box to keep all my scrap fabric in
and a voucher for Hobbycraft (SOOO cannot wait to go spend that!) Tim
brought me the natural beauty book - something I'm really into (since
inventing my own AMAZINGLY effective aromatherapy anti wrinkle cream ...
shh! it's a secret!) I've also come up with a brilliant recipe for soap
for dry skin - will blog that soon. From April I received the Sew Pretty
book - total eye candy, SUCH beautiful things to make. Hemmy and Jeff
(yes, they apparently stole Tim's Mastercard and went to Amazon
*laughs*), got me a box set of Keeping Up Appearances each (hilarious
programme!) I've got series 1, 2, 3 and 4 and I think there's only a
couple more to get so that will be on my Christmas list :)
Tim took the day off work specially, so I got breakfast in bed and he's
making me one of my favourite dinners (cannelloni). Saturday evening
we're going round his mums because she's cooking me a birthday dinner
too and then Sunday evening, Tim and I are having Chinese takeaway food
(yum, yum, duck pancakes!) as my "main" birthday dinner (so many
birthday dinners!) We are waiting for then so he can have a drink and
stuff and not have to worry about getting up for work the next day. So,
my special day actually spreads out over several special days - nice :)
Oooo! and the Proms start tomorrow! Looking forward to that!
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
It rained!
It did! After a seemingly endless period of hot dryness, it finally
rained .... and very welcome it was too :)
I've got to get on soon .... but here's a quick roundup of yesterday.
Tim went off out in the morning and did some "financial" related stuff
then, later, he had to go and accompany someone for their grade 6
singing exam. Apparently, she can sing really well and wasn't nervous at
all before she went in but then forgot the words to the song and went a
bit "shaky". Oh dear :( Tim says he doesn't know how much of that will
go against her but hopefully she did ok. Anyway, he went out first (I
guess she still had some stuff to do in there) and spoke to her mum and
singing teacher about what happened. Then, the singing teacher asked if
he'd consider helping out her (gospel!) choir doing their singing
practices once a week (and she'd pay him!) This, of course, is extremely
tempting HOWEVER, once a month Tim plays for a church and that includes
a Thursday evening practice. Thursday is also the day the gospel choir
have their practice so I'm not sure what he's decided about it - I know
he wouldn't want to let the church down, he's been playing for them for
years.
How about my own tiny musical attempts? Well, still been practicing my
recorder - coming on ok! The book I'm learning from is actually for kids
(I should probably find something more grown up!) - I've got to the
point where I'm playing proper little tunes and it says at the top of
one page "ask an adult to accompany you on the piano". Ha! Ha! Ha!
Tiiiim?! Anyway, he did and I think he thought it was quite sweet that
we were making a little bit of music together for the first time :)
Yesterday evening we had to take Rosie to Branksome Dene Chine beach for
her last Guides of the term. They were having a beach party (hot dogs,
beach games etc). It was a lengthy trek from where we live so, as the
meeting was only an hour and a half, we decided to hang around. Me and
Tim took April for a play on the beach then got back in the car and went
to Tesco and did a bit of shopping THEN went back to the beach for
another play and by that time Rosie was done. Next time she sees some of
the Guide people will be when she goes to camp in August for 4 days!
Right, I'm going to get on. We've borrowed Tim's mums carpet shampooing
machine so we can do all the carpets in the house - they get very mucky
with Hem and the kids tramping in and out all day!
Q - How many people does it take to change a Nissan Primera headlight bulb?
A - 2. One to change it and one on standby who knows CPR.
Yes, it would appear that you can, in fact, be killed doing this
apparently benign job.
On our way home from the restaurant last night (more about that in a
minute) we tailed Tim's mum in her car. On getting home, we got a text
saying "your headlight's out!". Ooops. So, I checked Halfords this
morning .... I have to choose between "gassed" or "ungassed" bulbs ....
erm.... I then do a quick search to see how to fit them and find out
that there is a chance of death (how, I don't know!)
Not sure why we bothered with all this when my brother is a mechanic and
MOT tester! I guess I just feel sometimes that we should try and deal
with small jobs on our own. Only, the possibility of being killed to
death isn't exactly "small" is it?! Then there's the gassed or ungassed
question .... ENOUGH! Phone James .... he laughed at the death thing and
said "yeah, you can be killed". He's got a free slot between MOTs
tomorrow so he told Tim to bring it down and he'll do the headlight
..... AND the break light we've had out for a few weeks (oh dear) AND
the slightly dodgy rear numberplate. Job done :)
So, dinner last night. As I said, we went to the Alice Lisle in the New
Forest - very gorgeous location (didn't see the donkeys this time!),
nice playground for the kids (and Tim, but the less said about that the
better!). We had crab cakes as a starter (very, very yummy) followed by
cod in batter for Tim (basically fish and chips with mushy peas - mushy
peas! yuk yuk!) and Dover Sole with lemon butter prawns and lattice
potatoes for me. Mum in law had the same as me but, unfortunately for
her, her sole didn't fillet properly meaning she had to sit there and
pick it to bits to avoid the bones. Mine went ok though and I ended up
with the cartoon style fishbone on my plate at the end *laughs* Wasn't
overly keen on the lattice potatoes which were a bit greasy but the fish
tasted gorgeous. Pudding was pear and almond tart.
Oh and yes, we did have fish followed by fish. We're such peasants.
It's hot .... Really, really hot. Cannot complain in any way :)
We lost the football (can't complain about that either - can't stand
football!) We watched a bit of the European Grand Prix (including Mark
Webber's whoops) then went to the shops for some food before coming
back and watching Glastonbury. Glastonbury is cool this year - there has
been some great stuff on - the Pet Shop Boys were brilliant last night!
Currently watching Seasick Steve with his beat-up old guitar *laughs*
Had more lettuce from my veggie plot at lunchtime - it really is
gorgeous! You can't beat the flavour of lettuce that has only just been
picked! Debs (hi Debs!) emailed and asked about my container garden. I
did blog about it a while back but here are some piccies from today:
Yes, that is an old washing up bowl! You really can grow stuff in
anything - these are baby plants that will be transferred to the bigger
plot as we dig up the plants that are ready to eat. I've already
transferred a couple of the lettuce. I've got some radish in the smaller
pots but they're not doing so well.
.... and here is my mad experiment - the sandpit veggie plot!
I simply continue to be amazed by how well the plants have done in this!
I've got white onions at the front, then baby carrots, then sweetcorn
(yes, really! It's growing astonishingly well!) then my gem lettuce.
What you can't see behind the sweetcorn on the right is a couple of
little baby lettuce plants that I've just put in there.
This seems crazy growing these things in such a small space given that
we've got a huge garden but the slugs are a real problem. I still had a
fight on my hands keeping them off my sandpit veggies but I won - here's
what I did.
Salt. I put a ring of salt on the ground around the base of the
container. I don't do poisonous slug pellets (because of the kids and
birds) but I admit - I was upset about the thought of finding a load
of dead slugs about the place in the salt. Do you know what though?
I've had NONE! I've seen loads of live slugs on the ground OUTSIDE the
salt ring but, I don't know, maybe they can sense it or
something because they don't go in there!
Hay. We used some that we use for Jeff our bunny - I just put a layer
of it in between each row of plants. Slugs don't like the dryness of
it. Apparently you can also use straw, sand and crushed eggshells.
Salad. Yep, when we had some left over salad from a meal that had gone
a bit limp, I chuck it on the ground near the plot. Basically, I think
the slugs/snails have been stuffing themselves on that instead of my
plants! I go out in the morning and find it all nibbled :)
So, a combination of these three things have saved my plants :)
....according to Richard Scarry in his utterly cute Busy Town books. He
was right - it isn't, but it's all good and enjoyable and fun although I
did struggle to stay cheerful when I even got interrupted about 5 times
while I was trying to eat lunch *rolls eyes*.
Been doing loads of stuff with the kids today from regular "school" work
to crafts and just play. We've been enjoying the very warm weather and
been outside lots (the weather that is, apparently, going to be totally
baking by early next week!)
I also made an apple and sultana cake - very delicious - recipe after
the picture!
Preheat oven to 190/375/gas 5 and grease an 8" round cake tine.
1/2 lbs/225g apples (peeled, cored and diced into very small pieces and
blotted on kitchen paper to remove excess juice)
1 lemon (zest)
1 large egg beaten into 1 tablespoon milk
2 oz/50g sultanas
For top - demerara sugar
Method:
Sieve flour, cornflour and baking powder into bowl.
Rub in the butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs
Stir in the sugar, apples, lemon zest and sultanas
Bind together with the egg/milk mixture
Spoon into tin and press down gently
Sprinkle top with demerara sugar
Bake for around 30-40 minutes (poke a skewer into the centre to see if
it's done - it should come away "clean")
Cool in the tin before turning out onto a cooling rack.
Eat (preferably with a cup of tea!)
Tim got given another music job today - this time accompanying someone
for a singing exam. It was through the same guy that gave him the
Seussical part. This is soooo great - the more stuff Tim does like this
the better - I'm really pleased for him :)
Oooo! and talking of music - The
Proms starts on the 16th July (the day after my birthday in fact!)
This is always much enjoyed by Tim and I over the summer months so I
can't wait!
Anything else?..... Ummm... Rosie's off to camp with the Girl Guides in
August! She's really looking forward to this - the camp isn't too far
away but it's for 4 days and they are going out on daytrips and stuff as
well. April's also out with her Guide Rainbow unit on the 8th of July on
a farm trip so she's thoroughly excited about that too!
Finally, George Osborne's comment in his budget speech about people
leaving the house at 6 or 7 in the morning to go to work while their
unemployed neighbours sit at home with their curtains drawn. Two
observations - firstly, maybe their neighbours can't get work -
I'm pretty sure that not every unemployed person in this country is
deliberately trying to stay that way. Secondly - 6 or 7 in the morning?
Ha! Tim leaves the house at 4.45 in the morning! 6 or 7 would be a
lie-in!
Tim's out doing the last performance of Seussical this evening. This
afternoon he took me and the kids so we could watch the matinee and it
was really, really fab - I was incredibly impressed! The kids loved it,
especially April who enjoyed it hugely and clapped loudly at the end of
every song and said she "loved the cat in the hat" but "why is Father
Christmas (The Grinch!) there?" *laughs*. By the end of it she was
jumping about in her seat and, I suspect, desperately wanted to get up
and dance around! She definately IS the more musically minded and
theatrical of the kids!
It's kind of sad that it's all over after tonight because I know Tim has
enjoyed doing it and I'VE enjoyed watching him get into it and do
something he loves and is wonderfully good at. On the way there in the
car this afternoon we were talking about how, next week, he'd have to
get back to normal - back to the normal delivering-boxes-of-food job. He
sort of sighed a bit sadly and said "I'm worth so much more than that"
and he is. My talented, yummy, scrummy hubby is worth much, much more
than some scrubby little delivery job.
Don't get me wrong - it's good (very good!) that he has a job at all
just incredibly sad that it's not doing something that he loves to bits
(even working in the music shop a few years back was, at least, a nod in
the right direction!) and is really good at.
Still, maybe the BOS will ask him to do something else for him again
sometime now he's worked with them on one show :)
PS - added the next day! Tim brought April home one of the Cat in the
Hat stripey hats that some of the band were wearing - she is massively
happy! When he got home last night I was in bed reading and he came in
and plonked it on my head! Anyway, here is the happy hat wearer - it's
so big she can actually pull it right down and hide in it!
There comes a time when you realise you have to put your real life
before your computer life. That time has come.
Tim and I have not had an easy time of it and we are both a bit sore and
hurting and unhappy. This is not a "break up" situation - far from it -
but we need time together to do some fun stuff and put unpleasantness
behind us.
So, for now, I'm going to take a break from blogging and concentrate on
the real world - starting tomorrow with a walk up Hengistbury Head and
on the beach to collect pebbles to make pebble pets.
Be back soon.
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Thursday, June 10, 2010
Lots going on ...
.... for other people anyway - business as usual for me!
This evening April has her Rainbow Promise at Guides - awww! I've been
trying to teach her the short promise but I'm not convinced it's sunk in
yet - hope so! They were supposed to be going up to Avon Valley for a
nature trail and having the promise there (I'd agreed to be the "extra
adult helper") but it's due to be chucking it down with rain then so
they're just going to the hall instead.
Tomorrow evening, Rosie is taking part in the Ready Steady Rosebowl
Guide Challenge Competition - basically a cookery competition. The
Guides are put in small groups and each group is given a collection of
different food items and they have to dream up, cook and present a main
meal and desert. Then they are judged and the best one gets the Rosebowl
trophy.
On Sunday Tim has a rehersal for Seussical - it's a loooong one (I shall
be having a sad, lonely dinner without him that night *laughs*), going
from from 2pm until about 10.00 pm. The following week he is supposed
to be on holiday (I say supposed because, despite asking for this
holiday several weeks ago, they still haven't officially confirmed it!)
and he has dress rehersal and then the actual shows on the 17th, 18th
and 19th (2 on the 19th including the matinee!) He is currently sat up
night after night with the score, headphones on, listening to the music
and trying to make sense of what is, apparently, a fairly complicated
keyboard part. He'll do brilliantly, I know he will, he's gooood! :)
Added later: April did her Rainbow Promise - very cute - 4 girls did
it so, fortunately, she didn't have to say the promise on her own which
is just as well because I don't think she remembered it all! I was a bad
mummy and forgot the camera so we took a picture when we got home
instead :)
PS - oh, and Tim's holiday for the week he does his show has been
confirmed. Thank goodness for that!
April's first tooth just fell out! Finally! I thought we were going to
have to make a trip to the dentist with that one as the new tooth has
been growing behind the baby one and had started to get pretty
big. The baby one just wouldn't go though despite being REALLY wobbly!
It's now in her tooth fairy pillow :)
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Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Back away now .....
I'm NOT in a good mood :(
First, I got TOTALLY punished for bragging about the sunshine on Sunday
by having it almost continually pour with rain ever since (as anyone
watcing poor old Simon King on Springwatch last night will know!)
Naughty, naughty Sarah .... don't brag again.
Secondly, I have a non-paying bidder moron on Ebay. Now, I haven't put
anything on Ebay for AGES but I had some stuff that I didn't want but
was too good to chuck out and so thought I might as well make some
pennies out of it. Of course, it doesn't go THAT easily does it? Along
comes this person, frantically outbids everyone else who'd bid, won the
stuff and then .... doesn't pay. What?! Why?! Why bother with all the
frantic last minute bidding if you're not going to pay for the bloody
things anyway?!
*Sighs* .... some people .......
On top of that my back is killing me today :(
Grrr... yep, I'm positively snarling today ....
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Sunday, June 06, 2010
Happy Anniversary to us!
12 years today :) We stood in the Iford United Reformed Church in
Boscombe East, nervously said some vows, were whisked away to a
wonderful reception and then, later, in our hotel room Tim decided he
was hungry and sprinted up the road to the KFC and came back with food
for us - romantic stuff eh?! That, however, is why I love him :)
Normally, on these occasions, I put slushy "kissy" photos .... decided
to put different ones this time. Now, this isn't because I feel any less
for the man I wedded all those years ago but because ... well, just for
a change!
So, we have....
The before pics .... me making up (ghastly, overstyled, lacquered to
death hair!) and Tim trying to relax by teaching Rosie piano ...
she wasn't interested....
The after pics ..... our fabulous, gorgeous piano wedding cake (which we
feared wouldn't be enough for everyone but was, in fact, bigger than we
thought) and the silly "show off a bit of leg" pic (I think by this time
we'd been serious long enough!)
... and this is for Tim.....
"I'm always pretty happy when I'm just kicking back with you"
I finally got round to tidying our hideous homeschool area today - put
away loads of finished stuff, sorted out all the crayons and pencils and
threw away the ones that were past their best, put out the kids new
lesson books and so on. Finished off by grabbing some flowers out the
garden and putting them on our now clear table (it was, previously,
buried under a pile of paper!)
Feel better for doing that because it's been bugging me for days!
It's not been at all bad here today weather wise - cooler than it has
been but still warm enough for us to have the back door open and still
warm enough for April to sit out in her sandpit and play :)
Oh, and I have some "why's" ....
Why has Hemmy taken to sleeping in the most stupid places? Earlier, Tim
got home from work and nearly squished Hem with the side gate which he
(Hem!) was sleeping right on the other side of. Now he's stuck himself
right in the middle of the "walkway" from our kitchen, in between the
dining table and bookshelf! It's like he WANTS to get trodden on!
Why do I have to get SO picky about my decor? I've recently rehung my
patio door curtains because they looked awful. Now they look gorgeous
(especially since I've finally gotten round to putting the tie-backs on)
BUT I have to store my mini rebounder down the side of the
fridge/freezer and you can JUST about see it poking out from behind the
curtains. I cannot tell you how much this winds me up because, as far as
I'm concerned, it COMPLETELY ruins the look of my curtains. There's
nowhere else for it to be stored, it has to go there but every time I
look at it I feel my blood pressure going up. Tim tells me I shouldn't
be so much of a perfectionist ....
Why Oh WHY do I keep getting LOADS of spam email trying to interest me
in a Volvo?! I've never owned a Volvo, never expressed an interest in a
Volvo and don't bloody want one! I don't get spam about any other cars
(not that I want it!) just Volvos! What? Why?..... *looks blank*.
Tim's off to work today. Wasn't supposed to be but he got a phone call
yesterday asking him because they were short of people. Actually, he got
2 phone calls. The first one (on his mobile) happened earlier in the day
but he'd left his phone in the car and, consequently, didn't hear it
ring and didn't find out he'd had a call until he brought the phone in.
Then, later, he was in the loo and it rang again and I answered it.
Anyway, the long and short is, he's working and a bit not happy about it
(seemed a bit tired this morning so maybe not sleeping so well again)
and it's all my fault because I answered the phone. Yes indeed,
apparently, I've got to make it up to him for answering the
telephone!! *Laughs*.
I don't believe Tim really expects me to make up for answering the phone
- he's not like that - but some people are really funny aren't they?
Like this morning, I was chatting to a friend online and she told me
about a woman she knew who'd got "friendly" with some guy and they'd
been chatting and emailing and phoning and things had been progressing
nicely. It wasn't a "big" thing but they'd kind of been heading in that
direction (if you see what I mean!). Anyway, then, she mentioned to him
that one of her friends had commented on how close they were getting and
suddenly, he goes crazy and refuses to speak to her anymore! Erm.....?
She was left wondering what the hell she'd done wrong. It is a bizarre
situation - to be that close to someone and then for them to suddenly
"turn" on you. My theory (for what it's worth!) is that some people are
very controlling - like this guy. He clearly had feelings for the woman
but wanted things to progress at HIS pace. Being "confronted" by the
fact that it was obvious to the outside world how close they were
getting made him feel out of control and he consequently reacted with
anger and pushed her away. *Shrugs* - it was all ok while he was
calling all the shots. Some people are like that. Silly man - why ruin
the chance of a fantastic relationship like that?!
Thank god I have a man who says what he means and means what he says!
Although Tim does display some control freakery tendancies on rare
occasions (haha!), they are not to the extent that he'd react like that!
It would be so confusing - I can only tolerate people who speak their
minds and don't "hide" behind words.
So there. :P
Getting off my soapbox now and going to do some ... stuff! Byeee!
Probably not going to be too much blogging going on over the next few
days - FAR too busy enjoying the lovely weather to do much else!
My veggies are growing like mad now so I'm having to weed and water
fairly frequently and I'm getting stuff done (like curtain washing) that
you need good weather for.
Other than that I'm just having fun and playing outdoors with the kids :)
PS - and OH! The joy of being able to wear lighter (less!) clothing! Tim
says he likes this time of the year for that reason too .....
What IS it about Sundays? Is it just me? Maybe younger people don't have
this feeling ..... The feeling of "Sunday Bleeeeuurgh" that never seems
to leave you no matter how old you get.
When I was a little girl Sundays were ... well .... a bit of a deadzone.
There were no shops open (apart from the "corner shop"), nothing worth
watching on telly (Antiques Roadshow aaarrgh!) and you had to get up for
school/work the next day.
I remember spending the whole day flopping around on my bed reading and
sighing and reading and sighing ..... Occasionally, the tedium was
broken up by sliding down the banisters/jumping off the porch
roof/climbing on the garage roof with my brother (yes, really) but apart
from that .... *sigh*.
My nan used to come for tea (sandwiches and cake all laid out on the
coffee table in the living room so she could watch the aforementioned
Antiques Roadshow). My brothers and I would sigh because mum was ironing
our school clothes and my dad used to sigh because she was ironing his
work shirts (you get the picture that there was much sighing going on).
In the winter, what with the damp washing drying everywhere and the vast
amount of ironing going on, the whole house would steam up. To this day
I HATE steam - if I'm out in the car with Tim and the windows start to
steam up (NO, not because of anything naughty!), I get quite crazy ....
can't stand it.
The one and only high spot on a Sunday would be being allowed to go with
my dad to take my nan home later in the evening. John Peel would be on
the radio doing "Music for a Candlelit Dinner" and my dad would be
almost hysterical with laughter saying "oh YEAH! He sounds dead
romantic!"
Today, things SHOULD be different. The shops are all open, we have
internet, masses of tv channels to choose from (back then it was
THREE!), Nintendo ...... and (for us anyway), no work or school on
Monday.
So why the Sunday blues? It's just been ingrained into me (and others
who came before the time of shops/internet etc I guess)
Maybe I should plan something radical every Sunday (and I don't mean
jump out of a perfectly good aircraft and open my parachute at the last
second OR jump off a building with a piece of elastic tied to my
ankles!) ... just something non-Sundayish....
Whatever .... got to go, Tim's off to church in a minute and then I'm
going to do loads of washing, fill the house with steam and climb on the
garage roof.
Happy Sunday!
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
Today I....
...enjoyed the lovely weather which was was warm and sunny and gorgeous
despite what the weather forecast said :)
... met an odd looking man who came round to bring Tim a musical score
for the show he's doing.
... played some maths games with Rosie (adding and subtracting negative
numbers).
... got an email from a blog-friend who told me that Chris Packham was
making an appearance at the Ringwood Waldorf School (to do something
called Never Mind the Buzzards!). Oooo! I want to go!
... wandered round the garden with Rosie and used April's little old
Fisher Price tape player to record bird and bee sounds (not sure why -
was a nice thing to do though!)
... sewed a tooth fairy pillow for my little babe who has got her first
wobbly tooth! It's hanging on by a thread at the moment so won't be
there for much longer. The odd thing is that the new tooth is already
there, already erupted, BEHIND the baby one! April is terribly, terribly
worried she's going to swallow the tooth while eating because she's
heard the story of Rosie doing just that when she lost her first tooth.
She was eating a custard cream at the time!
... put Rosie's name down for a place at Young Rangers at Moors Valley
to start in September when she turns 13. She's very keen to, eventually,
work with wildlife/conservation so it's a really ideal step into that to
start getting some experience. She's wanted to end up working with
wildlife since about the age of 6 and is really very knowledgable :)
... and now I'm going to go and watch Bill Oddie on the telly.
.... well, his left, our right as we were watching the television.
Off he shuffled, taking his bewildered looking kids and robotic wife
with him and (far, far more importantly) his departure means the
departure of all his henchmen. Ed Balls (for yes, this evil dollop
deserves special mention) - I hope you never, ever get the opportunity
to try and ruin the lives of millions of innocent children (school-going
and home educated) again.
Anyway, then, a little later, in entered David Cameron ... victorious
.... sort of - his smiling moon-face beaming at everyone.
I don't agree with some of his policies but I can't deny that I do feel
an overwhelming sense of happiness and relief today. It is a good day :)
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Friday, May 07, 2010
Hung Parliament?
.... wish they would all go bloody hang themselves.
It can hardly be a totally fair vote anyway when vast numbers of voters
got turned away and didn't vote because there weren't enough polling
stations, too long queues and they ran out of time.
Seriously, we live in a pathetic country where they can't even do a
basic thing like have an election without screwing it up and where the
losing parties (Labour and Lib Dems) who lost by a LOOOONG way will now
gang up and still end up running the country.
April has been having quite the most splendid time recently - she
discovered some leftover compost from planting the veggies. She then
mixed this with a bucketful of rainwater and proceeded to spread the
resulting mud up and down our garden path ..... we've ended up with
something that wouldn't look out of place in a farm!
The mess, of course, is irrelevant - the main thing is that she has been
having some good, clean (?!), healthy outdoor fun and came in with the
most lovely sparkly eyes and pink cheeks! :)
Aside from the mud she has also been hunting for snails and making them
a little (temporary) home, collecting stones in her bucket and
pretending they are fish - *laughs* - and chatting to Mrs Cataquack who
is, apparently, a duck that lives under our garden bench. :)
At least I can say she's been far more industrious than her mother - I'm
ashamed to say I've done very little in the way of anything meaningful
over the last couple of days. Does housework count? No I don't think so
(although I've done plenty of it!) I mean stuff like my hobbies (sewing,
card making and whatnot) - and I haven't found the time for any of those
:(
We did get our boiler fixed (what again?!) with a part that was
apparently "very expensive". For crying out loud! The number of times
they've had "new parts" fixed onto that boiler they may as well have
just brought a new one!
Election day tomorrow (in case you hadn't realised!) - Tim and I are
going to watch the Alternative Election thing on telly tomorrow because
the sight of David Mitchell, Charlie Brooker and co. poking fun at the
idiot politicians has got to be more entertaining than watching the
"actual", "proper" election stuff!
My opinion? Well, I don't have one much! Gordon Brown is hopeless
although, as Tim rightly points out, this is almost entirely due to the
fact that the man has no charisma WHATSOEVER - more than that though, I
don't actually think he's a very good politician full stop. Should have
stayed as Chancellor. David Cameron ...... uuurrgggh *shudders* .....
creepy, smarmy .. HOWEVER, I think some of his policies (assuming
he actually follows through any of them!) are more sound. Nick Clegg
(you can't say his name without saying the words VERY. PRECISELY.
Otherwise you get Niclegg.....) Hmmmm, I don't know - on the surface
seems very genuine (OK - as genuine as somebody WANTING to be Prime
Minister could be) but ..... I'm not convinced. In any case, that
loathsome toad Ed B******s advised labour voters to vote for him (Clegg)
in their area rather than let Conversative win ..... that possibility
ALONE is enough to put me off him. If Ed Balls says to do something then
I won't. So there *sticks out tongue*.
My turn to be not well today - not hideously ill, just got a really,
really nasty grinding sore throat. Not sure if it's going to turn into
anything more - don't think it's decided yet :(
Anyway, despite that, have been cleaning and tidying stuff today. The
kids school work shelves had become really cluttered and dusty and it
was horrible so I've given them a good going over and unearthed some
forgotten materials that we can have fun with at the same time.
Our boiler has been fixed - something to do with the ignition cable had
come off or something .... *looks blank*. Tim got his hair cut, it's
much shorter now (not SHORT I hasten to add!) and he looks very yum ;)
Tomorrow afternoon we're taking the kids to Honeybrook Farm - looking
forward to that as we haven't been there since early last year!
Right I've got to go and homeschool-blog and then I'm going to crash out
for a bit ... really don't feel too bright. Will leave you with a
picture I took of Hemmy yesterday sprawled out in the sun.
Put your tongue away - you don't know where it's been! (actually, I can
guess where it's been .... urrgh!)
Posted by Sarah at 3:32 PM [Permalink] Edited on: Friday, April 23, 2010 3:44 PM
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