We have both been poorly. Mike is still poorly, I ache horribly but think it's more horse- than virus-related ( Read more... )

This morning, Mike went out to give the boys their breakfast and found Bugsy happily eating the front lawn ( Read more... )

I've been very crap at updating recently, probably a sign that I've not been doing anything very exciting ( Read more... )

Poll Ladybird's The Husband and The Wife

(Damn, I'd not seen Dating before. Totally should have got that for Mrs Next Door!)

(Wow, the LJ update page is horrible.)

The parents have been and gone. We had a fairly good time, although the weather wasn't terribly nice: at least it was mostly dry. I kept staying up far too late chatting, oops. It was Mike's work Chirstmas do on Monday, so they took me out for a lovely dinner at Deeson's ( Read more... )

We have had an infestation of Teenager this week, but she's gone home now. (Actually, she's been no bother as she's been doing Complicated Maths the whole time she was here.) Tomorrow, we're getting an infestation of Parents, which I suspect will be more stressful ( Read more... )

Ahem. We've finished the leylandii in the front garden! Really quite pleased, now just need to see if I can rope Mike into taking out the last few in the back garden: when I mentioned it, he said "We'll do those next year", and that's only a few weeks, right ( Read more... )

Today, Jo got a nice plump hen pheasant. Sadly, she did so on Mrs Top Of The Hill's land, and I decided to do the decent thing and hand it over. Good job I did, as from where she was when I got to the front of the house Mrs TOTH must have been just on the other side of the hedge and heard it happen ( Read more... )

I've been a busy bee today (sorry, have apparently been infected by an edition of Poetry Please about bees that I had on in the background: anything's better than Football Sports HourThis morning, spurred on by there being a frost last night, (you may wish to look away now) I started on Christmas shopping. My, but it's amazing the stuff you can get ( Read more... )

So, there I was, doing the usual evening check-and-feed on the boys. It's chilly outside, slightly frosty. Earlier, we watched the International Santa Sleigh pass overhead ( Read more... )