Malbridge House

Went food shopping yesterday, we were at Asdas by 8-30am and back home by 10am, packed everything away, had an early lunch and waited for our friends to arrive. I’ve said before that one of my friends and I try to meet up every school holiday, we were hoping to go out somewhere but it was pouring with rain, so we stayed in, so I expect our neighbours were delighted to have 8 children running up and down the stairs, as apparently that’s one of their complaints, the children are too noisy going up and down the stairs! Bless ‘em!

They did a lot of playing on the computer and they were all very nicely behaved, poor Eden was the only girl but she managed to keep them all in line!

Mum came up for tea, poor Malc got soaked in the morning getting the bus and soaked again getting the bus on the way home.

Today, we got up, got all the chores done and we took the dogs to Corfe Mullen Rec, We love this place, it has a fabulous park for the children to play in, about five fields to walk across, one of them goes alongside the farmers field and there were the sweetest little calves there.

We’ve had  many a picnic here, today we took a walk around the perimeter of all the fields, came across some lovely dogs and their owners, nearly everybody makes a comment on four dogs and five children, if  had £1 for every time somebody said " You’ve got your hands full" I would be a very wealthy lady!

The children had some time in the park and then we went to the shop which is literally outside the Rec gates and had an ice-cream.

Met a lady who said " I’ll bet you’ll be glad when Monday comes", me not realising what she meant and looking quizzically at her " School" she said. So I explained that they were HE-ed and she said so were hers, one’s at Uni starting a degree and the other was a manager in retail. So that was nice, I always like to hear from people who have come out the other side of HE-ing and finding out that their children are happy and achieving.

The children had a bit more time in the park and then we came home the scenic rote through the country lanes, picking out the houses we would buy if we won the lottery, there are some real nice houses in Corfe Mullen!

Had some lunch and went to Mums for a couple of hours, Eden and Clark made some cakes, we had a couple after tea, Callum dug some holes for her new roses to go in, Soloman washed up, Cody pulled everything he shouldn’t be touching off shelves, and me, well I languished on her garden swing, as one does!

Mum came back with us for tea.

It has started to pour with rain and it feels quite humid, we could really do with a good thunder storm.

Malc went back to work this morning, we got up, did housework and decided to plant our peas out, our veg patch hasn’t been dug over completely yet, so we used the bit that has been dug

Notice the straight rows (not!)

The ladder’s there because we were doing things up the plum tree which resides in our veg patch!

We made some home-made bird feeders using pine-cones, coconut shells, we made the food using lard and bird seed mixed together, Eden climbed afore-mentioned ladder to get them out the tree, I mixed up the food and the children put them back on the tree.

We then  found at the back of the cupboard   remembered that we had some monkey nuts that we’d been given from a Ranger at Avon Heath when we last visited, so we got some string and the children threaded them through the nuts so that we could hang them on the tree too.

Soloman and Clark passed the nuts whilst Eden and Callum threaded.

 

We were joined by a new Flat today, we are hosting Flat Sarah from Australia, she arrived just in time to watch us with our other two flats.

The flats also had to climb the ladder to have a closer look at the tree!

At least my darling daughter looks happier today, do you like her snazzy wellies? No green ones for our Eden, good Lord no, we have to look good even over the back fields, after all you never know who we’ll meet!!

A friend came round to play this afternoon, she’s nearly 13 yrs old and comes from a big family herself so she just picks up Cody if he’s crying, plays games with the youngest boys, she’s lovely.

Finally today was Sketch Tuesday, unfortunately Malc only put Edens and Clarks across because he didn’t realise that Callum had done one, so after a big apology was given I said I’d put them all on my blog, because let’s face it, I get hundreds of visitors a day and there’s such a big chance that their talent will be " discovered"

This week the topic was " Something that swims"

Eden did a mermaid.

Callum did a big fish.

Clark did lots of little fish

Well it didn’t get off to a great start, I was washing up looking out of the kitchen window and I wondered why the two puppies were running round the rabbit run, they don’t usually do this, went out to look, the rabbit had only died!! At least he went munching on grass! Malc walked in the door from work just as I discovered it, so I let him deal with it whilst trying to keep the children in so they wouldn’t see it. They took it quite well, Soloman, with his three year old logic told me not to worry we could get another one!

Luckily we were so caught up with packing clothes and what books they wanted to take they didn’t have a lot of time to think about it.

We only went to my Mums, we were going to go to a site but we’ve not got round to booking anything, a change is as good as a rest they say!

We arrived about 3-30pm, had an early tea. Unfortunately I still had to take Callum to Beavers and Eden to book club, but when we all got back we sat in Mums garden on her garden swing supping wine, that’s the life!

Got up on Saturday and we went to a different garden centre than last weekend, took the flats and photos.

Eden looks so thrilled to be there doesn’t she?

Lord save me from stroppy young ladies!

We bought a rose called "Rhapsody in Blue, because the rabbit was a blue/grey colour. Mum bought a rose and an arch for it to climb up, when we got back Malc and Callum put it up.

We also went to see my sister whose birthday it was on Saturday, she also shares her birthday with Medina, our dog and Diesel, Medinas brother who is owned by my brother. Confused, come on keep up!

Arrived back at Mum and had chips from the chippie for tea, well it was Bank Holiday!

Sunday morning we had a lovely fried breakfast prepared by Mum and packed everything up, got home at dinnertime. We spent the rest of the day out in the garden, it was meant to be heavy rain, but it was glorious.

Today we woke to heavy rain, Mum decided she wanted more roses and another arch so we went back to the same garden centre ( shame they don’t do loyalty cards!) Mum bought another three roses and another arch. Callum can’t wait to dig a few holes for her roses and put her arch together for her.

This afternoon has been spent cake making, in fact I think I may have to sample a cheese scone in a minute!

We’re early to bed tonight, Soloman and Cody are already asleep, the other three will be going up soon and I won’t be far behind them. Malcs back at work tomorrow so it’s an early start again.

Yesterday we went shopping, the children were brilliant, especially at the till, sometimes if one or two of them are playing up it can be a complete nightmare.

Mum came up in the afternoon, I’ve been feeling quite out of sorts this week, I’m so annoyed at the injustness of our neighbours, their dog was out in the garden at 4-40 am barking, so I’m going to write down what I’m hearing from next door, not as a complaint but as a note to EH on what our normal background noise is, today their dog was out about 4pm playing with a squeaky toy!

To tell you the truth I don’t notice noise around me, I’m so busy, but I’ve been standing in the garden listening, there’s always a dog barking, a lawnmower going, music from somewhere.

We’re still waiting for the neighbourhood police to get back to us, she’s told us not to do anything different, but it’s hard not to tell the children off when I think they’re being noisey.

We had a letter through today, a bank is just dying to give us a loan and I’m so tempted to take them up on their offer and use it to move, just get away, I hope our landlord moves in the noisiest, skankiest family going, they’ll be begging us to come back!

Cody seems to be cutting his back teeth and has been quite grizzly and clingy, he seems to be better today, I can tell because he was back to his old trick of putting half a loo roll down the toilet! Bless, it’s so good to have a healthy, energetic child back!

We didn’t have a very good nights sleep, which is really saying something because I was in bed by 8pm and got about 6 hours in all. Soloman and Cody kept waking us up.

So this morning I was quite grumpy too, Mum came up about 11-30am and I think she wished she hadn’t. We had some lunch which cheered me up a bit! The children wanted a picnic on the lounge floor,so they prepared the food, Burley enjoyed most of Solomans as he left his plate unguarded!

Callum and Clark went home with Grandma for a couple of hours, so I sat with Cody on my lap and managed to read my library book, Eden caught up on her emails.

Mum came back for tea with the boys, Malc walked in the door and chaos reigned until tea had been eaten and things were washed and cleared.

The children have already done their Sketch Tuesdays as we’ve got a busy weekend planned and they didn’t want to miss it, it’s "Something that Swims" this week, I’ll post them sometime over the weekend.

We had news that our flat traveller ( Christmas Tree) is being returned to us, we’re going to keep Flat Bratz and Flat Pig until next week and then send them back and I saw on the traveller site that a host was wanted in the UK so I replied and we’ve got Flat Sarah coming from Australia, so we’re looking forward to that, the people sending the flat had heard of Poole Pirates which is our local speedway team, so I’m thinking of going to watch them and getting a programme to send back. They’d also heard of Dorset through Hugh whats-his-name with the River Cottage, now I know Linda you’re going to tell me his name straight away because one of your lads is a big fan!.

It’s my sisters birthday on Saturday so the children are going to make some cards for her tomorrow, hopefully whilst I finish off all the ironing, that’s the plan anyway.  I’m so looking forward to Malc being home for 3 days, I actually miss him which surprises me, don’t tell him though, he’ll only get smug!

It’s taken nearly a week of upset but we seem to be back on track, we’ve not done a lot of HE, I’ve let the children do their own work and not instructed them at all because I’ve been busy writing letters and making phone calls, so today we were back on track.

After doing the housework, stripping yet another bed, the four eldest asked to peg out the washing, as I was otherwise engaged ( hoovering) I let them, one of our lovely neighbours later saw me and told me her and her husband were watching them out of their upstairs window killing themselves laughing, it was very much a team effort, one got pegs, one got washing, another held washing up to line and the last one put the pegs on! Great teamwork.

Eden, Callum and Clark finished off their entries for the SHE forum May competition, Soloman and Cody were back asleep by 10-15am, so I did a huge amount of ironing, still not all done, the Mount Everest of ironing has still to be conquered

We had some lunch when the boys woke up and put the dogs on leads and walked down to my Mums, about 1 1/2 miles. My brother was there with his girlfriend, he of art fame,   http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/worksinprogress//cs-drawings.html

 

We stayed for a cup of tea, me that is, children had lemonade, and then walked home again, it was good training for Burley in particular as he pulls on the lead like anything.

Malc was late home from work tonight, the bus didn’t turn up so he walked home, that’s him done for! My Hero!!

He’s taken Eden to Guides, all the boys are asleep, peace for another 20 minutes until our whirlwind known as Eden returns full of the joys of being a Guide!

I forgot to explain yesterday, the Budgies are so called because they originate from Australia, so in the tradition of naming our animals we looked up places in Australia, although I think Koober is meant to be spelt with a "C" not a "K" which has been pointed out to me!

The children also did their Sketch Tuesdays yesterday which we sent across last night.

They had to do a telephone, here’s Clarks

Eden did a lovely pink one, Callum didn’t want to do one this week.

Meet Koober and Onslow, the latest addition, hopefully they won’t learn to talk and imitate the dogs and bark at everything going by!

At least with the dogs as mesmerised as this they’re not noticing people walking by and barking!

I walked the dogs with Eden this morning, it was beautiful over the back fields about 8-30 this morning. Burley is great with his chukka still, he’s still bringing it back and dropping it, he’s quite an intelligent little dog, very eager to please.

We picked my Mum up and headed off to a garden centre, we’ve got two really nice ones in our area, we picked out a lovely yellow rose called "Keep Smiling" We’ve put it in our back garden, we’ve got some paving slabs and we’re going to write something nice on one and put some sort of coating on the top to weatherproof it, we’re not sure what we’re going to write, we’re going to have a think about it and that will be our memorial to Rimini.

We also bought some rhubarb, I was told to buy one called "Champagne" and I’ve not been able to find it anywhere, but we found one today so that’s in the back garden complete with half the compost in the hole with it!

We left Callum at Mums to dig some holes for her as she bought herself a rose and we also bought one for her as a thankyou for her help, I don’t know what I would have done without her, especially this last week, she’s been there night and day for me, I was on the phone last Sunday from about 1am until 5am talking because I couldn’t sleep, she was there yesterday for us looking after the children so that Malc and I could go to the vets together, she’s sent us lovely e-cards to keep us smiling, I hope when my children are older that they feel about me the way that I feel about my Mum.

Malc has dug some more of the veg patch, we’ve put in some tomotoes, lettuce, some more runner beans, we’ve still got to put in our french beans and peas, which I’m hoping to do over the next few days.

Mum came up for tea, the bottom three children are asleep, just Eden and Callum to go, I’m not going to be far behind tonight.

Today, our lovely, fluffy Rimini was put to sleep. She was 13 years and 9 months old so she did well. She’s been going a bit senile for the last few months, her back legs have given out a few times. This happened last night and Malc and I had a talk and decided that this was the right thing to do for her.

It didn’t make it any easier knowing that though. We thought with having the other dogs that we wouldn’t notice she was gone but we were wrong, we do.

Rimini was a link to our past life, before children, when my Dad was alive and my parents visited for the weekend.

It’s up to my Dad to look after her now, in a place where they can both run and neither of them are in pain.  Aaa Cha Cha Rimini.

Been away for a few days, we’ve had a lot going on, we’ve had a dispute with our neighbours which has been very stressful, but it seems to be resolving, by that I mean other neighbours are backing us up and the neighbours that complained have asked the neighbourhood policelady to approach me for a reconcilliation, I haven’t spoken to them for about 20 months and I don’t intend to start, I want to see if they’re going to cancel their complaint, talking to Malc I think we’ve come up with we want to be left alone, let’s agree to just lives our lives and if they don’t hassle us we won’t take defensive action.

We’ve spent the last three days at my Mums splashing about in the paddling pool. I’ve got photos of flats lounging on the side of the pool which I will post tomorrow. Because of all the hassle we’ve had we forgot to send across our Sketch Tuesdays, which was a shame because they were lovely, so I’ll probably put them on tomorrows post so you can all admire them! Clark recieved his certificate today for coming 1st in the April SHE Forum April competition, he was chuffed, so thankyou Linda. We’ve still got to finish this months that we started at the end of last week, but I think we’re back on track again and the weather is meant to be grim for the next few days at least so we’ll get a bit of work done.

Callum has just lost a tooth by biting on a lollipop, so although not the healthiest of things to eat, they can be useful!

I’ve not been near my computer for about four days so I’ve got lots of blog reading to do, I’ll see if it’s my turn on any scrabble games, and then I’m off for an early night.

Up this morning, Eden usually washes up breakfast things and potters in the kitchen whilst I’m hoovering round and washing floors but this morning I walked into the kitchen and Clark was washing down all the cupboard doors with a flash wipe, Cal was washing up and Eden was wiping, bless their litle hearts, I try to remember that they do things like this when they’re driving me mad.

Eden, Cal and Clark did their Sketch Tuesdays, they had to do something red/orange, Cal did a vaes of flowers, Eden did a bowl of fruit and Clark did the same, I haven’t uploaded them yet so you’ll have the pictures to look forward to tomorrow night.

We then had a chat about the SHE Forum competition and what their age group was being asked to do and what they thought they would be able to do for their entry. They are half done, so I’m not going to give the game away, I’ll post pictures for those of you not on the forum when they’re finished.

Soloman and Cody were napping by 10am, unusual for Soloman but I think by the end of the week all the early mornings have caught up with him. So whilst the eldest three were glueing and sticking I set up the ironing board and did about half my ironing.

We went to pick Malc up from work at dinnertime part-timer! We went straight round to my Mums, Malc downloaded some of the pictures from his camera onto her computer, she wants some pictures of the children. Eden took some pictures of the flats in our caravan and a really good one of them on the inside of the window looking out.

Got home, Eden had bookclub this evening but at about 4pm one of our neighbours knocked on the door, her daughter was going bowling for her twelth birthday and to KFC, but somebody hadn’t turned up, I really thought Eden would want to go to bookclub, silly me, lured by prospect of bowling for the first time, bookclub was abandoned!

Callum was meant to go to Beavers this evening, he got changed and literally 2 minutes before we were going to set off he got upset and said he was tired and didn’t want to go, that makes it two weeks in a row, so I think we’re going to have to have a chat but I’ll leave it a couple of days and try and have some one-to-one time with him and broach it.

Had tea, Mum rang about 6pm, she was bored and wondered if she could come up, Eden returned absolutely hyper due to how ever many E numbers there are in the vast amount of sweets she’d consumed!

Mum, Eden and I had a game of scrabble, proper scrabble not cyber-scrabble, real board and everything! Eden won, I’m not sure if it was the E numbers, the fact that she’s home educated so well!! Or that Mum and I were tired, but to be beaten by a 10 year old, that’s embarressing!

Beautiful, beautiful day again today, I washed three loads of washing and dried it all, just got to iron it now!

Eden did some Maths and her blog, Callum did a workbook that we were given last summer at a local farm open day, so it was all about tractors and harvesting, in the form of word puzzles, Clark did some more handwriting practice.

I kept it short today, Eden and Clark made some coleslaw and a salad for tea so that we could go out and not have a lot of cooking to do when we got back.

So we went to Poole Park it’s about 3 miles from us just past the town centre. We took the flats, Poole Park is renowned for it’s ducks, swans and Canadian geese, and get this we even have a goose poop picker-upper machine, because believe me it use to be everywhere!

I use to climb this tree as a child about 30.. years ago!

Hug a tree today!

Can I play too?

We then went to the imformation centre and picked up some leaflets on the history of Poole Park, and one on the trees in the park which Cal wanted for his Tree lapbook. The ladies there also gave us a quizz worksheet which we completed, luckily she gave me a leaflet with the answers on, so I’m going to fill in a blank leaflet and send it back with our flats along with the history leaflets.

We went to the cafe to get an ice-cream, extortionate prices well worth the cost to see the smiley faces on the children!

We then went to feed the ducks with some food that we’d bought at the imformation centre.

Cody was mesmerised by them.

We sat on the cricket field on our picnic blanket and read a chapter of "Chocky" and then the children ran round with a football.

we finished off the day by climbing another tree.

Arrived home, Mum arrived literally two minutes after us and stayed for tea. Everyone has had baths, my arms have gone a bit red, so I’m off to rub in some baby lotion!

Went shopping first thing this morning, got home and unpacked it, had some lunch, Mum came up and we went out.

It was a beautiful sunny day, so we went to Upton park it’s only about 2 miles by road and 1 mile if you walk up through the footpaths, today we drove there.

We took the flats with us, I let the children loose with the camera, in all they took 74 photos, of flats, ducks, peacocks, flowers, trees, Oh and did I mention ducks!

We played " Hide and Seek", " Follow the leader"  " Fetch a feather/stick/leaf"

Upton Park is renowned for it’s peacocks, so we took a photo of the flats with them, one was displaying his tail rather nicely inside his pen, we took the photos and walked round the other side to find one displaying his tail outside the pen!!

We all caught the sun a little and it was absolutely lovely, we had the obligitory ice-cream.

More photos of flats…. Under a tree

In the midst of it all, my baby, just sittin’

 

I’ve been waiting for days like this, I hope the weather holds so we can go other places.

It would be sunny today, Bank Holiday is over, it rained here by the way. Malc has gone back to work, workbooks are out, now the sun shines. Today we had haircuts booked in for this afternoon as well so we couldn’t go out anywhere. The good news is that the lovely weather should continue for the rest of the week.

So I’m hoping to go to a local park that has loads of ducks and geese that you can feed, Upton Park, where there are lots of peacocks, we did have albino ones but unfortunately they were stolen a couple of months ago!

I would also like to go to the beach, all this is so that we can take some pictures of our flats for when we send them back, we’ve only got schoolwork, at Grandmas and not a lot else, so this will be a good opportunity to build sandcastles with flats, feed ducks with flats. After all Dorset is renowned for our lovely beaches.

There is also an area called "Sandbanks"  about 7 miles from us for those of you who don’t know it’s a millionaires property area, very, very posh, my Mum suggested parking up and standing outside one of the lovely houses with the flats and pretending that it’s our house. The only trouble with that is when they "google earth" our address, they’ll be in for a bit of a shock.

So, today, Eden, Cal and Clark wrote a letter to their Nanny in Essex as an English exercise, I read a chapter of "Chocky"  and then Clark and Cal read their ORT books to me.

Clark practised some handwriting, and then I let them all go out in the garden, they were bursting to get out. We tend to stock up on work during drab, wet days so that we can enjoy sunny days. They built an assault course and ran round that.

My Mum came up and had lunch with us, then the hairdresser came, my sister turned up with a friend, so it was a busy household.

Mum took Cal and Clark back with her, Malc arrived home and we had tea, Eden’s at Guides, Malc will pick the two boys and her up about 8-30 ish.

Because of the Bank Holiday we forgot to do our Sketch Tuesdays, well we kept remembering them and then forgetting, so by the time we remembered yesterday it was getting late and they didn’t get done. Next week though, something red or orange, let’s see what they can do with that.

Todays smoothie wasn’t very liked, we did orange juice, 2 oranges, 1 lime and 1 lemon, I think I drank most of it, never mind, another day another recipe!

You know the ones where you seem to be running around but getting nothing done.

We stayed in the caravan on Saturday night, the wind was really howling, it was blowing Mums watering cans all over the place, I think we got up about six times in all. The dogs kept barking because things were banging around, the boys kept waking up, we got about four hours sleep in the end.

My Mums neighbour had to go and rescue her sandpit, it had blown all the way up her drive, that’s what the big noise was that we heard.

Cody and Clark woke at 5-30 am, so we put on their shoes and coats and sent them out into my Mums back garden to play with their new dolls and pushchairs, so we could lay and doze, unfortunately a fight broke out and they woke Eden up, who was staying in the house with Mum, but the were right under her bedroom window!

Had a lovely breakfast, of bacon, scrambled eggs and toast, packed everything up, went to start the mini-bus and guess what? Yes, you guessed it, it wouldn’t start! Called the AA ( again). My Mums house seems to be jinxed when it comes to starting our mini-bus.

The AA man couldn’t have been nicer, he diagnosed a dead battery, rang Halfords to get a part number and price, checked they were open as it was Bank Holiday.

Malc dropped me, children and dogs off at our house and off he went, not daring to turn the ignition off until he got there!

We were going to go back and stay in the caravan but I was so shattered I just wanted a bath and my own bed.

Mum came to ours for tea and took Eden back with her to stay the night, she brought her back this morning.

Last night Callum and I made fruit scones and some cheese scones and this morning whilst we were waiting for Eden we made two cold tea cakes and two Dorset Apple cakes. Nearly all the scones went at dinner time!

We went to our local pet shop because Burley has broken his collar pulling like mad on the lead when he’s walked I’ve no idea how!

Popped to see my sister, come home and had tea, Malcs sandwiches are done, I’m such a good wife!

All children are in bed and I’m following soon, ready to start another week of education, washing, ironing, cooking, oh my life, what an exciting one I lead!

We’ve been really busy today, we had to go to town so that I could put a cheque in the bank, got there, cheque is still at home on the kitchen side!

The children have been so good this week that I told them they could all chose a little pressie each in town. Eden chose a Tamagotchi, I swore I would never have one in the house, we have plenty of babies here she can look after if she needs the practice! Callum wanted a recorder and panpipes! Soloman and Clark wanted a little pushchair with a baby, the baby came with a bath, duck, towel and bath related items, but get this it wets when it drinks, deep joy!! Just what I need, we also got Cody one because I know if he sees the others pushing things round, he’ll want one too. There’re a big hit so far.

We’ve got a big discount book store in town and most of the books are £2, so we bought a few lovely books. One thousand stories and rhymes, that’ll be great for bedtime and the SHE forum is rubbing off on me, with all the talk of reading classics, we bought a lovely illustrated book of Peter Pan, they had Black Beauty, Robinson Crusoe and Alice in Wonderland, which we will go back and get another day. They’re done to look like an old book, with a red cover with gold patterns and writing on, they look lovely. Eden and Callum bought a book each, but for the life of me I can’t remember what ones!

We off to my Mums tonight to watch Dr Who, as I’ve said before we don’t have a TV, so I thought we could all go and watch it and see what the fuss is about.

A good mornings work was done, Maths, Eden did areas of compound shapes, Calum and Clark did subtraction.

English, Eden wrote a story about an imaginary friend, prompted by reading "Chocky" by John Wyndham. Callum did verbs in a Letts wizard work book, he got the grasp of them by the end of the page. Clark did "ch" and "sh" as beginning and end sounds.

Callum and Clark read me their ORT books.

The flats learnt with us.

Soloman and Cody were back asleep by 10-30am, as we’re getting up so much earlier they’re having a sleep in the mornings now not the afternoons which is working out better because it means I can concentrate on teaching the top three without things being put down the toilet and babies climbing all over the table! I managed to read a chapter from "Chocky" without interruption.

We made a salad for lunch, Eden made some coleslaw, Mum came up, she bought some fairy cakes and a bar of cooking chocolate for the children to melt and put on top of the cakes and decorate them.

In the end only Eden was interested in doing them.

I peeled loads of veg for a stew for tea, chatted with Mum.

I put a sheet on one of the top bunk beds and hung it over so that the boys could play pirates which they enjoyed for a little while.

Who needs toys when you’ve got a plastic container to play with.

I managed to do three loads of washing and dry each load on the washing line today, not bad for a forecast of sun and rain. I washed a load and hung it out, put another load on, the first load dried so I put the second load out and on it went. I’ve just got to iron it all now, I seem to iron the same clothes every couple of days, it feels a bit like the "Groundhog Day" film, I’m replaying the same ironing over and over!!

Lolly time!

Malcs bus was late this evening so he was 15 minutes later than he’s been the past couple of days, the children had him dead and buried, bus crash, all sorts, I had to ring them, it didn’t help that he didn’t hear his mobile, so therefore he must have been dead because he wasn’t answering. They really miss him. Oh to be so loved!

Malc is playing Scrabble with Eden and Callum, hopefully we’ll have more appropriate words this evening! We’re eating coconut, we’ve saved the milk to put in tomorrows smoothie,  the children did work out a recipe for today but then we forgot to actually make it !

I’m off to facebook, it’s mine turn on the Scrabble !!