Yesterday I was seriously considering not going to Earwigs, as we are both suffering with colds still. After dashing round Sainsbury's I was just about out of energy. However, I got a phone call from Cath to say she had two ill kids and had had no sleep, so could I cover her closing and take the snack over. It wasn't too bad, though tidying up did ( Read more... )

On Friday morning we set off to Strensall to go to their NCT coffee morning. I was going to blow it off due to lack of sleep, but then Cath decided she needed some adult conversation and drove us all over there. It was a nice few hours with a good turn out ( Read more... )

Wednesday morning was busy, especially as the game livers were twice as strong as expected and I had to remake the pate so it tasted of more then just liver. The smoked trout pate was a whole lot easier, as it involved no cooking! I got all the paperwork done on Wednesday afternoon while Alex was asleep, including finding out I needed a whole lot ( Read more... )

Alex had a good day on Sunday too, Granny was there and as the Q6 was on its way off the railway for some work it sat at Levisham behind a diesel, cold and waiting for the Santa so it could go up to New Bridge. It was there for 30 minutes, with a very happy Alex on it. We all ate together at 6 so we could get out in time, due to the freezing ( Read more... )

Yesterday we had a quiet morning, as I had a meeting with Jo Ro and Alex was off to Ladybirds at 12:30 so there was no time for him to have a nap! The meeting was very productive and actually ran to time. The Jo Ro team now have a name - NELLI - New Earswick Less Loneliness Initiative. Next comes the constitution, then a big wedge of cash into the ( Read more... )

Creepy crawlies was busy, because of course it was polling day and some schools were closed. Still, it wasn't too bad and we had a fun, if exhausting, couple of hours. We both crashed when we got home ( Read more... )

Monday was interesting. The day was pretty successful, I was quite pleased with how my part of the 5 person Q&A channel went in front of 150 people! I could not have done that a few years ago. The final panel of the day seemed a bit of a waste of time, a good practise panel which was nothing to do with our research, which was what people wanted to ( 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... )

We had a fairly quiet weekend, with not much of it spent on the dumper truck! Alex did enjoy clearing the snow/hail slush off the level cross so much he stole my snow shovel and would only give it back when I found one for him, then tried to get me to clear the whole thing! That is a much slower process when you have to keep stopping to fill his ( Read more... )

On Tuesday Dad, Alex and I walked over to the toy bus, were Alex was very quick and we got home far quicker then I was expecting. Dad then went off to the hospital for his check up and I attempted to put Alex to bed. After 20 minutes of objecting he finally went to sleep, then 10 minutes later his damn alarm clock went off as he'd been playing with ( Read more... )