Wales

Got back yesterday from a lovely weekend in Wales camping with friends from Church. Yes, it was wet...but guess what....we didn't camp! For those of you who don't know me...i really hate camping! Yes, that opinion is based on the one time i went camping with some friends when i was about 17, but still....i have decided i don't like it! The main reasons for this are:
1. It's cold
2. Trekking across a field to get to a toilet is not my idea of fun
3. Everything gets damp when it rains
4. The toilet reason is important enough to appear twice!
So, anyway we hired a little self catering apartment not far from the campsite, and that was fine! We had heating, a bath and shower, and comfy beds! i didn't even have to put socks, wellies, a jumper, trousers on when i needed a wee in the night! The weather wasn't as nice as it could of been, but i think if you go away on a bank holiday weekend you're kind of asking for trouble! We did manage to get a bit of beach action on saturday, and then went back to the campsite where the boys played cricket for a bit, boo and i had a good time joining in. Sunday was a wash out, and we went to a little town called Mumbles (sorry, i didn't hear you properly!) for a while. This consisted of time in an arcade followed by lunch in a cafe, then coffee in another cafe, and then off to the pub! Monday, was packing up, then a few of us braved the beach and some of us sat round in a cafe drinking coffee and playing cards! Guess which group i was in? Overall it was a lovely weekend, and good to spend time with my friends!

now it's back to normal at work...although clearly i'm not doing much work now!!!

The Boys

Here's the latest offering from the boys!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrYxhLyy9cE
how lovely they are! Only 7 months to go!!!

Little Girls

This is the book that i have just finished reading. It's taken me awhile to read it...but i think that was probably because i've not ben feeling that well, so haven't concentrated much! anyway, i chose it because it was a 'Richard and Judy' read and i generally like them. I did really enjoy this book and even had a little tear at the end. It's a bout Rose and Ruby who are twins joined at the head just by their ear. It's so lovely how much they care about each other and don't seem to get annoyed that they can't do anything on their own! I would recommend it as it's a nice read!

Onto other things now...had a really nice day watching cricket at Lords with Matt. It was the first day of England v West Indies. We had really good seats right at the front and considering the weather we've been having we managed to get quite a bit of cricket in. And we were also on the highlights programme this evening....brilliant! Matt might be able to get tickets for saturday too so that will hopefully be something to look forward to!

Yucky!

That's how i feel...sore throat has now turned into a cold! Why are cold's so annoying....you can't do anything without stopping every second or so it feels to blow your nose! To top it off i've got to go to work tommorrow....going to feel well up for that i can tell! Bekky is coming down with it now as well.

We had a bit of a to do with her at school today. I found out last week that she has been chucking her lunch in the bin in her eagerness to get out into the playground before the big kids come out to play. Anyway, we had a bit of a chat about it in class today with her teacher, and Boo got really upset and started crying and didn't want me to leave! Anyway, at about 1.00 the school rang to say she wasn't well and could I go to get her, so off i went, but when i got there it turns out that they had tried to get her to eat a bit more of her lunch and she had got herself in a bit of a state. I was a bit torn because she clearly has a cough and might feel a bit rough, but she was also reacting to the "lunch" episode! So i chatted to Mandy who works at the school and boo loves and i made the difficult decision of leaving her at the school for the afternoon. I felt that if i took her home and the fuss was about not wanting to eat her lunch then she will think she can do it again! Her teacher said she was fine this afternoon so i think i maybe did the right thing! Well, i hope so anyway!

Day of rest

I had the day off work today as holiday so my planned day was to drop Bekky off at school, go to the Angel and have coffee and potter about, then come back and watch everything i have taped off the tv till i had to pick up Bekky at 5pm. Sadly only the first two happened as at midday my childminder Tracy phoned to say that she thought her mum had had some kind of stroke and had gone to hospital....so i obviously dropped everything and ran round there whilst she sorted out getting all the other kids back to their parents etc before she could go the hospital. Anyway, just spoken to Tracy now and they reckon her mum had some kind of fit, but tests showed that she has had a stroke at some point but they are not sure when, so they will need to do more tests to find out. I was so worried and upset, i love Tracy and her family, feels like we have always been mates, and weird to think that we only met four years ago when i took Bekky to round to meet her new childminder! anyway, i'm going to take her son to school tommorrow and then i'll pop back in to see how they are all doing.

Let's hope tommorrow is less adventerous! (Is that how you spell that word?)

Rough Bank Holiday

I'm feeling poorly! Got a really bad sore throat and have been feeling a bit feverish too! Fotunately i'm off work tommorrow so don't need to worry too much if i don't feel better, although obviously i will have to get up to take Bekky to school etc! We had a nice weekend away visiting our friends in Leicester and their three kids.....i love going to see them so much and miss living near them...why they can't move back to London i don't know! Was meant to be going to the Church football tournament today but obviously didn't feel up to it...hope it was good day for them all despite the rain! Haven't been blogging too much recently...been caught up in the Facebook world...it's brilliant and fairly addictive! Always good to get new friends on there and to find out what you other friends are doing!

Oh the good news is that the kitchen is finished...i will post some pictures soon! We're really pleased with it! Good job too!

Well that's all the energy i have now for this evening...what a weakling!