Buckland Abbey
Forgot that I didn’t have to dredge up Nanci lyrics any more, so now it’s back to thinking up boring titles, but at least they might make sense, well, for a while at least.
We had half a nice day here; Steve took the day off and we went to Buckland Abbey for the day, which fitted in with the Tudor project as it was Francis Drake’s family home. It was fantastic actually, loads to see, do and learn, and we all enjoyed it.
Things went downhill on the journey home, between them all the children have been annoying since about 3pm. Abbie has ended up being grounded from computer games for a week, and the other two have come close to similar sanctions. So they’ve been banished to bedrooms this evening and I’m not blogging about it, but they behaved appallingly at the dinner table and that was the last straw, obviously 
I have a huge pile of ironing to do so I’m procrastinating. Also found out this evening that I need to produce some bits and bobs for a display about the Miscarriage Support group for Sunday’s service at the hospital, so I have that to work on as well.
School has been on the cards for discussion between Steve and I today, but Anna has kind of retracted her bid for freedom from parental control – she surfaced at 8.50am and I pounced on her and told her to get ready immediately as if she wanted to go to school she’d have to be there by that time; followed that with ‘oh, and by the way, if you were there today you’d be missing out on the day out with Daddy’, and she conceded that for now at least she’s actually happy and knows she’s got a blindingly good deal at home. I guess the discussion will be ongoing, we do need to identify which issues are valid concerns, which are the ones we can do something about, and which to put under the ‘this too will pass’ category
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Goals for tomorrow, I’m writing here rather than on a scrappy bit of paper somewhere:
- Swimming
- Plant some Strange and Unusual plants
- Finish any bits for the miscarriage group display
- Cook roast dinner in time to eat before Dr Who!
- Try to have a good day with the children
We’ll see how much of it I manage to achieve …
Changing the subject, I’ve been chatting to my sister today and have been very excited by a couple of her tentative wedding plans, especially this one! Does anyone out there make dresses, by the way? Somehow I don’t think bridesmaids’ dresses is a good place to start, but I reckon one can always get something more individual by having it made – Mim agrees but we don’t know anyone …
April 15th, 2005 at 20:31
Oooh, a chocolate fountain, great idea! Never seen one before.
Buckland Abbey sounds good, must definitely get there one day! Would be nice to do it before all our project stuff is put away and forgotten I guess.
April 15th, 2005 at 20:33
They had one at Crealy over the Easter weekend. It was pretty cool, but very messy! I’d vote for white chocolate …
April 15th, 2005 at 20:34
oh I love those fountains – wish they had them when we gotr married. I want to get married again
April 15th, 2005 at 20:47
Me too!
April 15th, 2005 at 20:59
Me too.
I made my bridesmaid dresses but i think i’d be too scared to do them for anyone else!
April 15th, 2005 at 21:06
Lol, yes, my first thought was “HOW messy?”
I do know someone who makes wedding dresses, but I’ve forgotten who!
April 15th, 2005 at 21:52
So the dinner winner medal is not the great panacea after all
I would also just like to commend Steve as there is more chance of hell freezing over than me *ever* dressing up like that.
‘A blindingly good deal’, Hmmm, what’s your business again.
April 15th, 2005 at 22:25
No, it blimming isn’t. Haven’t done dinner winner for ages actually, it must be about time to resurrect it.
April 15th, 2005 at 22:54
Chocolate fountain – the only thing to do with it is what Dawn French did on Vicar of Dibley – and DIVE IN!
April 15th, 2005 at 23:53
I agree Chris! I’m daft enough to dress up like but Roger won’t go anywhere near clothes that make him look slightly odd (cycling and walking gear notwithstanding of course).
April 15th, 2005 at 23:54
BTW – love Anna’s hat. She needs to audition for the next Girl with a Pearl Earing!
April 16th, 2005 at 9:28
Hi Sarah, I thought that was pretty game of Steve too- not only to dress up but to agree to have his pic posted!
I can’t stand wedding fuss- other peoples or for myself. Sim and I had a sneaky two witnesses and a bottle of champagne job. We’ve never regretted it but it’s a mute point with certain family members who would have loved a party!
The only thing I might have done differently was to have a decent dress of some description and a photographer. I think our wedding pics of us in whatever we found at the back of the wardrobe that morning have been the cause of much mirth in my family and have gone some way to compensating…
April 16th, 2005 at 10:07
I didn’t exactly *agree* to have the picture posted btw
April 16th, 2005 at 10:51
chocolate fondue + excited kids + nice clothes = trouble…….
Unless of course you are planning to take the DW medal to the reception….
April 16th, 2005 at 11:00
Ah but when you agreed to have the pic taken you knew full well what I’d do with it …
April 16th, 2005 at 11:06
Yes Steve, you must have known she’d blog it!
And Chris – don’t forget drunk people in the chocolate fountain equation!
Our wedding was as fancy as I could have stood – I’m not really a fripperies kind of person, and C would doubtless have been happy with a whip in and out and then down the pub. I wouldn’t mind doing it again, but not for the accessories, just for the people I’ve met since who I think should have been there
April 16th, 2005 at 11:10
LOL. That’s a nice idea Alison – doing it again with all the people who are part of your life now. Now and again I think about having a party for our 25th, but it always seems a bit smug, somehow. But in a sense, it’s as simple as that, just wanting to have fun with friends, and have the kids there as well.
April 16th, 2005 at 11:20
I agree – our wedding was fine at the time and we have some great memories from it but I’d love to do another one, being the person I am now and having the joint friends that we have now, rather than the mainly polarised family we *had* to invite then … I am DEFINITELY having a marriage related party soon – 15th anniversary maybe?
April 16th, 2005 at 13:08
Joyce, I would love to come to your 25th anniversary party
April 16th, 2005 at 14:42
Well we’re having a house-warming party this year….we have been here 5 years this July so think the house is pretty ready for some warming….so get your social diaries ready.
April 16th, 2005 at 23:43
my friend had one of those at a party and she said it was pretty cool and a good talking point. i love a party but would not have done our wedding any differently – couldn’t have been doing with months of planning, dress fittings, cake traumas and seating arrangements. strangely i would quite like to do something on that scale at some future anniversary point though – i just wanted the actual wedding to be about us and not anyone else!
i had read some of the birth stories before off your family site but not seen Joel’s there before. ((Sarah)) for that xxx