Sam's visit was good. He arrived on the 11:20, we grabbed our bags and clambered on, after Simon had plonked Alex on the train and told him to follow Sam who he hadn't seen in over a year. Sam and I eventually found him chatting to a family in a compartment further down the train! Good parenting there. We headed to Grosmont, and had a nice picnic ( Read more... )

On Tuesday night Alex woke me up every hour, on the hour. Very annoying! He also didn't want to settle at nursery until I pointed out he'd be playing with Eva all morning, then he waved me away! The last day was a bit more productive, apart from some very silly role play. Cath and I left 30 minutes early in order to have time to get lunch before ( Read more... )

I checked the list on my vitamins, 86% of my iron RDA, so not anaemia, but I feel a bit brighter today ( Read more... )

On Tuesday we went to Pickering on the first train to spend the day with Mum and get Alex to a barber. He looks very nifty with a shorter hair cut ( Read more... )

I'd just got my measuring and moisturiser done (frankincense and lavender this time) when Sarah, David and Aiden turned up with the birth pool. We had a nice chat and cup of tea, Aiden played with the cats, who were very torn between playing with the ball and running away from the small child throwing it, then I sent them off with Sarah's altered ( Read more... )

I watched Star Dust last night, in a very quiet house with no cats and no husband, its a cracking film ( Read more... )

Jiffy bags, plant pots, radiators and bed heads, all gone to new homes. I love freecycle. That just leaves the cabin bed to go tomorrow ( Read more... )

I got the computer re-homed, even if it still won't recognise my wireless keyboard, in fact for a while it wouldn't recognise any keyboard, which was a bit worrying. I then emptied all the crap out of the drawers and off the desk, and found the drivers for the keyboard, so I shall have another go tonight. By then Simon had come home, and we emptied ( Read more... )

Apparently you need at least 15lbs of grapes to make white wine! This is because it is made with the grape juice with no added water. I had 5.5lbs, so I've made grape melomel and a pint of wine jelly using the end of the grapes, some of my windfall apples and some gorse wine. The jelly seems OK, the melomel I'll know about in 18 months ( Read more... )

We got up early on Friday morning and caught an 8ish train to London. I had badgered Simon to get seat reservations, but apparently we can't reserve 1st class seats on week days with our passes. Luckily there were plenty of seat, plus free tea and biscuits ( Read more... )