And the good news is.

It seems likley that Guiness has been spotted. Someone rang up the yesterday (who lives not far way on the otherside of the main road through the village) to say they had recently seen cat matching his description/demeanour a few times recently near their house. It seems she and another neighbour put out food, so he may have been eating that. It will probably take sometime to actually track him down, but it’s good to ahve some positive news.

So what have I been doing as I’ve been a bit absent from the blog? Today was another ‘Clap and Sing’ session at the local village hall Stringbean enjoys this, and so does Butterbean I think. ‘Homedad’ from down the street (as Helen has christened him) wasn’t there so I was the only Dad. Now that’s ok, I often find other men want to talk about something boring like football or F1 anyway, but I do find it a bit sad that more men are not taking a more upfront childcare role. And there something undefinably ‘odd’ about being the only Dad in roomful of mums and tots. I guess lots of women are used to something similar in male dominated situations.

Went to the playground nextdoor afterwards, SB got to play for ages on the see-saw with a little boy. Then just as we were goingto go (and it takes ages to prise her away from a playground) a boy she had met before turned up, so I let her stay for a bit longer (another 1/2 hour….) before heading home. He wa runnign around and climbing on the Slateboard/Rollerblade ramps, of course it ended in tears when she tripped and fell and got a really nice graze on her knee. Will ahev to try and enforce trousers only rule on there I guess. Pottered back home with SB riding her bike, and met H just home from work which was nice.

It’s good to be able to just walk to so many places around the village.

Lunch and bit of family time followed. The conservatory is nice place to sit SB and H did some more of SB’s clock kit thing she got at Melrose. Later me and SB went for a little walk. The COE parish church is behind our house and she has been on about going to see it. so we walked round to it. Had little look inside – it’s a pretty typical small old country church, at first it was ‘Wow!, it’s beautiful’ (yes really ) and we had little nose around, and I told her what the various bits were. But she then got diasppointed because there weren’tmore bits to investigate – I think she expected it to be like a ruined castle/abbey etc.

We did spend sometime outside though lookingat the gravestones which she still seems to find fascinating. I think we will go and do a bit of rubbing at some point.

H had long (but successful it seems) evening meeting at work. So me and the beans had tea, baths etc. All went well SB was settled in bed at which pijt of course BB decided wake back up. she had’t filled up when she ahd the chance earlier, so spent the next hour or so moslty making fuss about this, seeing as she still will not drink enough from a bottle.

I don’t think I’ve quite got the whole me, SB, BB altogether at home all day quite sorted yet. time seems to disappear at times into an even bigger blackhole than just with SB. And at times when BB is making fuss and not drinking from her bottle, it’s quite hard trying to give SB any attention. I’ve had to a couple of time to tell SB she has to go and find somethign quiet to do out of the way as otherwise she just ends up distracting BB. I don’t like it, becuase SB dotes on BB and she loves helping out, but sometimes its’ the only way I can get me and BB to concentrate. Thinking back I guess I didn’t have SB for such amounts of time at this sort of age, as H didn’t end her mat leave until over 6 months,a nd I worked fulltime until about 10 months.

Oh SB just woken up, time to go.

[edited this one's title grammar too!! - H - might even be drive to doing a spelling check!]