Easter

i guess i should blog! i am just not feeling v bloggy, and actually, there has been scarcely any time. it is VERY unusual for us not to blog for 2 weeks though!!
So, what did we do after the party?? well, i worked, and worked and worked! latin etc happened without me. chris did the optics stuff. it was a much smaller group as merry’s lots were lurgied, and the manor borns were getting ready to celebrate marcus’s 50-2! i shouldn’t laugh, as the next day i celebrated my 40th. my parents had arrived for easter, and we had a lovely meal and thought 40 not soooo bad!! And as a special 40th birthday present i got a telescope – only on loan!! but i did see saturn!! [v happy] and also the moon. my arents also very impressed with telescope, as it is enormous.

hordes of family started arriving on the friday, as had my sister and family and little nanny staying as well. children all got on well as usual, i finished just in time the hand made easter eggs, easter cake etc etc. was a lovely easter. little nanny getting v much frailer, and my heart goes out to her being so brave. i declined her help in the kitchen, she got to sit down and chat. after so many years of being chief bottlewasher, kitchen skivvy and all round enabler, i told her the baton had passed on! she nearly didn’t come, thinking she wasn’t quite up to it, but i think she was happy. i had the kids play games in front of her when she wasn’t up to joining in – The Settlers of Catan (New Edition) being a firm favourite, but also the train game – Ticket to Ride – Nordic Countries. and then when she was we played rummy and donkey. my B-I-L has decided he loves playing games when here, so that is fab, and we had a go at settlers and at Puerto Rico

then i went back to work again after easter, and then off to a conference in swansea, whilst the girls went to chris’s parents so he could do stuff.