Over the past day or two I’ve been remembering how the house maintenance started to pile up in the run up to Xmas. The problems were caused by the amount of time I was spending in the gym, compounded by being exhausted afterwards and the pains I was getting in my hip/knee etc. Those factors … More So that's why…
Was considering making up yet another blog called something like ‘The Skater & her Dad’ and load stuff onto and into it that is related to figure skating… and *more* importantly the youngest daughters development as a skater (if any) and of course pictures of her!! 🙂 I’ll not be creating a link to it … More The Skater & her Dad?
Not a lot happening here today. The kids are away, the youngest still at a sleepover, and the eldest to a friends party. The wife is working trying to catch up on the work she missed whilst home with the sore back… and I’m pottering about in the garage trying to find some floor space. … More Quiet ol' day today.
Up at 4:45 a.m. and out at 5:15 a.m. with both kids and away to the ice rink for the youngest to have her lesson. By 6:45 a.m. she’d had enough she’d fallen on her knees and decided enough was enough. No matter how much coaxing and reminding her ‘champions never quit’… she was too … More Skater Boi?
Zoomed off yesterday to get the youngest to her skating lesson… gosh I *love* to get up at 5:00 a.m. on a Good Friday morning to drive 40 minutes just to sit in a freezing ice rink for two hours. Obviously my greatest desire came true! Still, we were back by 9:00 having made a … More Get up in de morning…
The Indian Summer has stalled after all. The promised storms didn’t eventuate it’s true, but it *has* been gently raining for an hour or so and the temperature has finally dropped to 24ºC. Basically it’s ‘bank holiday weather’ in true UK Style! 🙂 Made no difference to us tho, we have been hard at work … More And then the rain came!
The daughter asked if a friend from Girl Guides could sleepover tonight so of course we agreed. Her bedroom needed some attention so she was told to clear up… or no friend sleeping over! After some grumbling, away she went. She picked up clothes, books and toys etc and vacuumed the floor. While this was … More Pleasant days
Up at 4:45 a.m. to get the youngest ready for her lesson. Wake up the eldest, the wife surfaces… and off we go. We drop the wife off at the bus stop (too hard to get to the train station and then back to the main road) and away we go… again. Didn’t take as … More Kids – who'd have them?
The wife and I are seriously considering moving home. We decided that much as we like the location, the place is just too big and too badly configured for our needs and I’m getting less and less able to carry out the maintenance work it needs. I like the idea of moving to a place … More Time to be moving on?
Moving along from the weekend’s unpleasantness, there were a few ‘high’ points. For example the wildlife found in the garden is as interesting as ever it was. The ‘fat lady‘ is still hanging about at the front of the house, spinning her webs and getting us all sticky when we back into them accidentally. But … More And now for something completely different.
The Eclectic Interweb 