space, the final frontier!

Anyway, so to the weekend, a little shiny jewel! We weren’t quite so prepared as normal, and the climbing frame wasn’t rocketty – so a bit disappointed – and I hadn’t got a treasure hunt organised, which I had originally planned to do. oh well. the rainedrops arrived the day before – which was lovely. we did loads of tidying and sorting, so didn’t get in a game of agricola – sob. [will bring when i visit!] and the next day actually saw us more or less ready! [well, for us!] ER wore what was going to be SB’s costume and facepaint, SB wore an alternative – which was v snazzy! BB wore her red catsuit and had a catty face – for about 5 seconds before dunking into paddling pool [ ], and RR had a flower facepaint.

People were arriving and welcomed, and the party swang [swung?] into action. We had a lovely load of local HE as well as muddlepuddlers, and the kids all got on well – a raucous lets empty the pool game seemed to be the focus of this bonding! Loads of yummy food, i sang into the arms of pimms, when my very own jean-luc wasn’t striding past looking manly. I think tim was more of a ds9! such a trekkie!! [tho i was rimmer!! - thanks to merry, in a slightly asymetric fashion ] I was v happy to have so many friends around, and happy to see them all. i do apologise to those i wobbled too. does help though. Baby O nearly tempted me… BB’s rather OTT meltdowns x 2 untempted me… bless her, she was overtired, as was SB, who fell asleep infront of the narnia showing! I did manage to paint a number of faces in a vaguely sensible manner despite pimms, and this ended up including lots of butterflied girls and an allstar.

a relaxed next day – good as jax and i stayed up waaaay to late!! and more frolicking in paddling pool from offspring and general fun, and sad to wave goodbyes. T-bird and aprillia decided that it was too sad, so stayed another day which was a lovely bonus.

contemplating animals for next year as bb wants to be a guinea pig. ? on safari??

oh, and i lent out a number of books, so for those of you who can cope with scifi…

and this rather excellent series