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Showing posts with label Good Moments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Good Moments. Show all posts
Sunday, 28 August 2011
Friday, 27 May 2011
Beachiness and bad barbecues
Hello! It has been a busy busy week for us, and I have only just had time to sit down and write about last weekend.
We had some friends over with their scrummy baby and took a Sunday trip to the beach. Let's have a barbie, we said, the weather's been great, we said, let's eat up the last of the wagyu beef on the beach, we said.
Well, we had an hour on the beach. The four of us adults spent half that time wrestling with an oversize wind break, which we eventually realised we could not use because it would not stand up in the soft sand. The bears climbed the rocks, underneath the big sign saying 'DANGER, DO NOT CLIMB ROCKS'. The adults sat on the blankets and drank coffee. The kids dug sand near the blankets. The sand ended up in the coffee. The coffee crunched.
We stoically ordered W to light the barbie. A beach warden poked his head over the sea wall and said we could not have the barbie on the beach, we had to go up onto the grass above. Which proved useful because that way W (down to his last match) met the Polish man with the parafin who lit the barbie for us while nearly losing his eyebrows. (Don't try this at home folks!)
With both our husbands being important with a barbecue, My friend and I were left with:
4 children on foot
1 baby in a large buggy
4 blankets
2 bags of clothes
1 enormous bag of buckets and spades
1 bag of shoes
1 cool bag full of posh beef
2 picnic bags
1 VERY large hamper
-to carry back up to the picnic area. We managed it- needs must, and the weather had started to turn and we were hungry.
Sometime later W slapped several chunks of wagyu beef down infront of us. Mmmmm. Really good. The treatiest of beef. We savoured it. For about three minutes. Then it got Windy. The baby started crying. Custard cut himself with a butter knife. Miss T started a mantra of 'Me freeeeezing'. We wrapped her in a blanket. Then the plates blew away. Then W said: Ooh, if you look over there you can see the rain. It'll be here in about eight minutes.
It was there in seven.
W and our friends scooped up all five kids and ran for the cars. I played donkey and carried the luggage. I got wet.
Do you know, we had A Great Day! Loads of fun, truly unforgettable...for whatever reasons!
Hope you had a great weekend too, whatever you were doing...x
We had some friends over with their scrummy baby and took a Sunday trip to the beach. Let's have a barbie, we said, the weather's been great, we said, let's eat up the last of the wagyu beef on the beach, we said.
Well, we had an hour on the beach. The four of us adults spent half that time wrestling with an oversize wind break, which we eventually realised we could not use because it would not stand up in the soft sand. The bears climbed the rocks, underneath the big sign saying 'DANGER, DO NOT CLIMB ROCKS'. The adults sat on the blankets and drank coffee. The kids dug sand near the blankets. The sand ended up in the coffee. The coffee crunched.
We stoically ordered W to light the barbie. A beach warden poked his head over the sea wall and said we could not have the barbie on the beach, we had to go up onto the grass above. Which proved useful because that way W (down to his last match) met the Polish man with the parafin who lit the barbie for us while nearly losing his eyebrows. (Don't try this at home folks!)
With both our husbands being important with a barbecue, My friend and I were left with:
4 children on foot
1 baby in a large buggy
4 blankets
2 bags of clothes
1 enormous bag of buckets and spades
1 bag of shoes
1 cool bag full of posh beef
2 picnic bags
1 VERY large hamper
-to carry back up to the picnic area. We managed it- needs must, and the weather had started to turn and we were hungry.
Sometime later W slapped several chunks of wagyu beef down infront of us. Mmmmm. Really good. The treatiest of beef. We savoured it. For about three minutes. Then it got Windy. The baby started crying. Custard cut himself with a butter knife. Miss T started a mantra of 'Me freeeeezing'. We wrapped her in a blanket. Then the plates blew away. Then W said: Ooh, if you look over there you can see the rain. It'll be here in about eight minutes.
It was there in seven.
W and our friends scooped up all five kids and ran for the cars. I played donkey and carried the luggage. I got wet.
Do you know, we had A Great Day! Loads of fun, truly unforgettable...for whatever reasons!
Hope you had a great weekend too, whatever you were doing...x
Thursday, 26 May 2011
Recent yumminess
Hello folks!
I have just downloaded my camera and found a couple of pics of Dinners We've Had. Two stand out for me- one, a meal enjoyed with good friends, much wine, bad music and a 70s vibe. It finished with a slice of homemade black forest gateau. Thin swiss roll sponge, bitter chocolate mousse, sweet cream and a tin of cheap and cheerful cherry pie filling. So. Good:
The other was a meal W made for me one night after work. Tuna steak, courgettes, new potatoes and hot tomato salsa. It arrived accompanied by the words (Quite pointedly, I seem to remember): Look, I love you so much I actually found fish in the shape of a heart.
So there- I am loved...x
I have just downloaded my camera and found a couple of pics of Dinners We've Had. Two stand out for me- one, a meal enjoyed with good friends, much wine, bad music and a 70s vibe. It finished with a slice of homemade black forest gateau. Thin swiss roll sponge, bitter chocolate mousse, sweet cream and a tin of cheap and cheerful cherry pie filling. So. Good:
The other was a meal W made for me one night after work. Tuna steak, courgettes, new potatoes and hot tomato salsa. It arrived accompanied by the words (Quite pointedly, I seem to remember): Look, I love you so much I actually found fish in the shape of a heart.
So there- I am loved...x
Thursday, 19 May 2011
In the saddle
Today W, Miss T and I had a Big Bike Ride. The big three were in school, the sun was shining, so we hopped on our bikes and headed down to the seafront for breakfast:
Oh yes!
This was my view:
We rode the entire length of the seafront (about five and a half miles) to get to here:
A lovely bit of beach that we don't normally visit as it's a bit of a pig in the car. I had forgotten how beautiful it is.
Miss T fell head first off the ramp and put her teeth through her lip- much blood and many tears ensued. But, my brave girl was calmed down with the promise of an ice cream.
The fence goes out for really long way into the estuary. I think it is the remains of the one they built in the war to stop the U-boats coming up the Thames.
I got some really daft tan lines on my feet, due to the overly technical strapwork on my sandals.
Altogether we cycled about twelve and a half miles today, and I am feeling pretty pleased with myself, because I did it with a small person on the back of my bike too. Though I did run out of steam half way up the hill to get back home. I got off and pushed for a (short) way. The shame!
We have been doing some Ooh-I-wish-I-lived-here local sightseeing too:
The house on the right here has an orangery. I want an orangery! No simple conservatory will do now- there needs to be an orangery in my future!
The world from a bike- wonderful. Such a great morning! x
Oh yes!
This was my view:
We rode the entire length of the seafront (about five and a half miles) to get to here:
A lovely bit of beach that we don't normally visit as it's a bit of a pig in the car. I had forgotten how beautiful it is.
Miss T fell head first off the ramp and put her teeth through her lip- much blood and many tears ensued. But, my brave girl was calmed down with the promise of an ice cream.
The fence goes out for really long way into the estuary. I think it is the remains of the one they built in the war to stop the U-boats coming up the Thames.
I got some really daft tan lines on my feet, due to the overly technical strapwork on my sandals.
Altogether we cycled about twelve and a half miles today, and I am feeling pretty pleased with myself, because I did it with a small person on the back of my bike too. Though I did run out of steam half way up the hill to get back home. I got off and pushed for a (short) way. The shame!
We have been doing some Ooh-I-wish-I-lived-here local sightseeing too:
The house on the right here has an orangery. I want an orangery! No simple conservatory will do now- there needs to be an orangery in my future!
The world from a bike- wonderful. Such a great morning! x
Monday, 16 May 2011
A big weekend for bears
Hello! Hope you had a lovely weekend. We did!
Mud run...hanging out on the beach with the best kids ever...W and Lulu coming back to shore, wet and muddy...Adventure Island...FHB in the Best Place For Him...rollercoasters...old skool fun...new fountain on the seafront providing much entertainment for all...also-two birthday cakes; an evening with great friends and many margheritas whilst watching the Eurovision Song Contest; fish n chips; a slap up curry...aah- good times...x
Mud run...hanging out on the beach with the best kids ever...W and Lulu coming back to shore, wet and muddy...Adventure Island...FHB in the Best Place For Him...rollercoasters...old skool fun...new fountain on the seafront providing much entertainment for all...also-two birthday cakes; an evening with great friends and many margheritas whilst watching the Eurovision Song Contest; fish n chips; a slap up curry...aah- good times...x
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
Dinner date
On the guest list:
W, FHB, Mouse and myself.
Venue:
The beach.
Time:
6pm til bedtime-for-bears.
Menu:
Homemade pizza with parma ham and olives
Strawberries
Jelly
With orange juice or fruit smoothie to drink.
I LOVE living by the sea!
x
W, FHB, Mouse and myself.
Venue:
The beach.
Time:
6pm til bedtime-for-bears.
Menu:
Homemade pizza with parma ham and olives
Strawberries
Jelly
With orange juice or fruit smoothie to drink.
I LOVE living by the sea!
x
Sunday, 3 April 2011
The weekend challenge II
Hello! Hope you have had a wonderful weekend. We did this:
Good kids=a challenge mostly met. Given that it was Mothering Sunday I pulled rank on the kids and we went back to the beach again in the morning- it seemed a waste not to make the most of a beautiful sunshiney day. We have promised them the park on Thursday, with bikes. Hope you had a wonderful weekend too!
x
Good kids=a challenge mostly met. Given that it was Mothering Sunday I pulled rank on the kids and we went back to the beach again in the morning- it seemed a waste not to make the most of a beautiful sunshiney day. We have promised them the park on Thursday, with bikes. Hope you had a wonderful weekend too!
x
Friday, 11 March 2011
It's oh so Quiet...
It is Friday afternoon and all is well...Peace reigns in the House of bears.
One sleeping peacefully:
One playing DS as a Friday Treat:
One Making Animals Go:
One wrecking my recipe book while expounding long-windedly about what she is going to make and for whom:
And on the hob:
...A basket of goodies for W to conjure up some yummy tea.
In addition, the oven holds a chocolate cake, the coffee pot holds a new brew, and the dining table holds my afternoon's entertainment:
Lovely! Hope your Friday is as good. x
One sleeping peacefully:
One playing DS as a Friday Treat:
One Making Animals Go:
One wrecking my recipe book while expounding long-windedly about what she is going to make and for whom:
And on the hob:
...A basket of goodies for W to conjure up some yummy tea.
In addition, the oven holds a chocolate cake, the coffee pot holds a new brew, and the dining table holds my afternoon's entertainment:
Lovely! Hope your Friday is as good. x
Sunday, 27 February 2011
Hectic Half Term
Hello! I hope you have had a fine week. It has been half term in my neck of the woods, so we headed off to my in-laws for a few days (me with no camera, W with a camera and no charge). We had the loveliest time- charity shopping, wool shopping, Ws birthday, a zoo day, scrummy food and a head louse battle of epic proportions. Perhaps the last was not quite so lovely.
On Wednesday W and I did a runner and left the kids kids with Papa and Toot (Thank you!!) We managed:
:: a day at work (me)
:: a trip to the driving range, where we found that I am Very Bad at golf
:: some much needed clothes shopping
:: to accidentally get very drunk with an old university friend
:: a stomp around London taking in Spitalfields market
: Petticoat Lane market
: lunch at the Albion
: the National Gallery (looking for Ws favourite painting Mr and Mrs Clarke and Percy by David Hockney. It had moved- it was at the Tate)
: The National portrait gallery, where I was unimpressed with a self-portrait bust made of the artist's own blood. (Why would you do that?)
: a wander round the delis in Soho
: a stop at a bead shop (staffed by the rudest people in London)
: a trip out to Angel to see our friends and their delicious new baby
:: a trip to Ikea (where I managed only to buy things on Toot's shopping list. I am very proud)
:: a humungous and knee bucklingly expensive supermarket stock up in anticipation of my bears coming home.
W and I had a fabulous time together, but I will admit to spending the hour before the kids arrived home peering out of the window and jigging impatiently.
This afternoon we have spent an hour delousing Mouse again, disarmed the boys several times, spent two hours folding laundry and sorting toys, half-forgot to feed the kids any tea, broken my promise-to-self to spend an hour on the wii fit, weathered a temper tantrum of extreme tiredness from Mouse, put out three bags of recycling, made dinner for the week, and enjoyed a wonderful hour during which the bears (wearing respectively a yellow dragon kimono and a sword, a shalwar kameez and silver slippers, a jalabiya with a light saber and a small-but-not-small-enough sari) ran around upstairs shouting 'Ha har Custard! The evil genius who wants to cancel Chinese new year..!'
I have really missed my children...x
On Wednesday W and I did a runner and left the kids kids with Papa and Toot (Thank you!!) We managed:
:: a day at work (me)
:: a trip to the driving range, where we found that I am Very Bad at golf
:: some much needed clothes shopping
:: to accidentally get very drunk with an old university friend
:: a stomp around London taking in Spitalfields market
: Petticoat Lane market
: lunch at the Albion
: the National Gallery (looking for Ws favourite painting Mr and Mrs Clarke and Percy by David Hockney. It had moved- it was at the Tate)
: The National portrait gallery, where I was unimpressed with a self-portrait bust made of the artist's own blood. (Why would you do that?)
: a wander round the delis in Soho
: a stop at a bead shop (staffed by the rudest people in London)
: a trip out to Angel to see our friends and their delicious new baby
:: a trip to Ikea (where I managed only to buy things on Toot's shopping list. I am very proud)
:: a humungous and knee bucklingly expensive supermarket stock up in anticipation of my bears coming home.
Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy
W and I had a fabulous time together, but I will admit to spending the hour before the kids arrived home peering out of the window and jigging impatiently.
This afternoon we have spent an hour delousing Mouse again, disarmed the boys several times, spent two hours folding laundry and sorting toys, half-forgot to feed the kids any tea, broken my promise-to-self to spend an hour on the wii fit, weathered a temper tantrum of extreme tiredness from Mouse, put out three bags of recycling, made dinner for the week, and enjoyed a wonderful hour during which the bears (wearing respectively a yellow dragon kimono and a sword, a shalwar kameez and silver slippers, a jalabiya with a light saber and a small-but-not-small-enough sari) ran around upstairs shouting 'Ha har Custard! The evil genius who wants to cancel Chinese new year..!'
I have really missed my children...x
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
A reminder to self
In amongst all the I hate yous and You're the meanest Mummy evers it can be very easy to forget about how lovely my bears can be. I was brought up short this morning when flicking though my camera as I came across these (fairly rubbish) photos of things I made with them at the weekend. It is only four days ago, but yet I had completely forgotten about dressing up and pirate ships and fairies. How dreadful is that?!
So here, as a reminder to me, are the pics. They make me smile:
That's better...x
So here, as a reminder to me, are the pics. They make me smile:
That's better...x
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