June 2007

my migraine abating now - having fair ruined the weekend!

Anyway, sadly without me, chris and the girls did the village carnival cycle ride, and SB did 10 miles! good going - with some stops at the official drink stops etc where she chatted to anyone who would listen. She was the youngest single cycler - someone younger on a tagalong. Chris pulled BB in the trailer. . He found out that our village has a power station in it!!!!!!!! Apparently at a landfill point in the old gravel pits. hmmm.

We went to chris’s parents for lunch - hence roasties. The girls enjoyed playing in the mini stream and waterfall they have had built. Relaxed nattering, and finally home. SB has practiced her violin and done a lot of reading and baked cupcakes. Also a fair amount of nintendogs - BB also rather keen on nintendogs!

i have to sort out 2005 photos into a max of 400 [ideally half that!] for photobox. i haven’t added up how many we took that year - though they are all on flickr so you can! But presently at 450 after many many hours. AAARRGH.

then i need to do 2006. does anyone have enough time to do it for me????

I had a combination of migraine, non-perfect outcome at work [my fault], feeling crap and blue.

so i compounded it by being so? unavailable for my girls that BB was biting me whenever she wanted attention. sigh. I did improve in the afternoon. Just.

SB did violin, lots of reading, made a lovely card and went to the kids carnival party. BBbit me lots, we did lego, reading, jigsaws.

both girls helped me with picking peapods [though i didn't get to eat any!] BB stuffed herself with strawbs [ and we have loads!!!] they also enjoyed scattering rooster pellets and watering.

I have been tagged by Allie at green House by the Sea

The rules are simple?Each player lists 8 facts/habits about themselves. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning before those facts/habits are listed. At the end of the post, the player then tags 8 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

Eight things?

1. I have played a violin solo in the royal albert hall. [ proud of that so first - aged 18 when i was still good!]
2. I got married 10 years ago

3. I love sci-fi

4. I was born in Wales

5. at one point i thought we would never have children

6. I like a nice cup of coffee and a good book

7. actually even a mediocre book

8. I would like to live by the ocean

so, without seeing who else has been tagged!

I would choose

Sarah Two Red Boots

Tammy in Quietly Noisy

joanna going against the flow

jax and tim who are making it up

kirsty on her highway

Michelle at the Manor

t-bird anni

I have just come downstairs as tooth holding on by a thread and very painful.

Mummy has just pulled it out. Blood everywhere.

Apart from madly thinking about various deadlines at work, I have had a gresat time.

SB is getting there with frere jaques - half speed though! hmmm for kessie! Hope Joe will be forgiving.

Girls did lots of playing - shops, families etc. also lots of playing with the book people boxes. In fact the boxes were prob the most looked at bit of the book people order! SB did get stuck straight into the poetry collection - she has athing for poetry at the moment. She is planning to recite a poem at Kessingland. its true that some of the books are more ‘future books’ - some diana wynne jones for me [rofl! i loved her charmed life as a girl] and the roman mysteries collection. But the DK animals collection really lovely, and the where on earth - so we had a look at those.

We also looked at SOTW again - its been ages, but Julius caesar - SB quite good on this from the horrible histories CD! Also continued with primary maths [i do think i prefer it to MPaH]
The strawberries in the title, well, we have LOADS ripe now, so our little birds were out picking them! At least i did get 4 this time. And I made rice puding with BB - yummy!

BB did lots of colouring and magic painting - which she is becoming very careful about. SB did colouring and made this sun catcher from beadmerrily. well i thought it was beadmerrily but I can’t find it!! Shame, because its lovely, and SB really enjoyed it!

forgot to say that we gave SB her DS today, she has been saving up beautifully and will now put that money towards a trampoline! Thankyou very much to Claire for her generosity. We have nintendogged until i went crazy!!!

what on earth was that about?

I am obviously just talking about katy on th apprentice

you whaaaaatttttttttttttt?

Stringbean reads lots to us know, but mostly new books rather than old ones.

Last night she read one of the Percy the Park Keeper stories to me, i like these, they are nice gentle stories. Anyway, she was given the book with a? story tape of it by my parents. I guess when she was 3. It was one of her favorite bedtime stories for a while and I read it to her lots.

And now she is reading it back [wipes eyes].

And very fluently as well. Still bemused by how that seems to happen.

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Originally uploaded by Scrumbledelicious.

so have put on loads of photos. liked this one at the sculpture park.

well, SB wants to try out goats milk first. but if she likes it, she thinks we probably have room for at least one if not 2 goats, we could milk them and get most of our own milk. Not quite enough for BB as she drinks so much. Of course we wouldn’t need a cow as well, just one animal type will do. and anyway, we don’t have room for a cow. and they would only give us blue milk, with all the fat still in, and we need green or red. hmm, yes, a goat would be good.

we don’t really want bees, although we have some, because they might sting. daddy could get the honey, but maybe we won’t bother as we don’t use enough.

chortle chortle chortle on my behalf! we are raising a smallholder. possibly a good career path.

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more splashing in pools! also painting outside and rocket making.

BB being 2. eyes shut and fingers in ears when asked to say sorry to SB! shouting I can’t hear you!

I got in most of the sweetcorn and some cucurbits. Chris potted up the toms into f9inal position. I gave the onions a good weed.

We ate the first strawberries - woohoo! nothing like warm from the sun in your garden strawbs!

loved it

i filled our 2 holey pools and lots of splashing in the sun ensued. we played games - including BB’s fav game of the moment, hisss.

First harvest of peas from the garden - well, 2 pods! and the first strawbs reddening.

SB had a sulk that she couldn’t buy some toffee, so we made some - more crispy toffee than sticky, but yummy.

BB counted to 26! [a couple of errors] she was counting her jumps on the trampoline.

SB wants to join the local trampoline club. a sat so not ideal, but she has really loved the half term trampolining course she was on, so i guess so.

BB still addicted to the usborne farm books, and also the little music book.

Lots of reading going on - at present titanic lost and found, what makes you ill and magic tree house ninjas, as well as whatever she just happens to pick up. we are going to have to start censoring the material left around!

Also some zoombini’s and webland today. violin and maths chugging along too.
oops i made a book people order.

Question - if we were to save and splash out on a trampoline for sb at home, or keep our eyes out on ebay, any good makes or suggestions out there?

is so fast asleep, that SB has just spilled water over her head and she hasn’t woken up [on a chair in the kitchen]!