Up a gear or two!
Front room decoration has picked up pace a little! I thought it was going to be a long drawn out affair, but last night Steve stripped wallpaper off around the fireplace, and today we’ve painted blobs of colour onto the chimney breast – he’s going for the contrasting chimney breast approach in order to save painting the rest of the room, but that’s fine by me.
I told him he could do what he liked with the room, and I think he’s taking me at my word. Unsurprisingly, it’s getting expensive 
In other news today … we did some music practice together (took an hour to do what should have taken ten minutes, don’t know why I bother sometimes), and then some baking. Chocolate Fudge Cake. Not quite chocolatey enough due to lack of the proper amount of cocoa, but the fudginess, which we got right for once, made up for it 
I have eaten about four pieces too many already this afternoon!
The girls have had a mutual friend around to play – someone Anna met at swimming and now turns out to be in Abbie’s class at school, and they’ve been doing puppet shows and playing outside on bikes.
Josiah and I got a science kit out of the cupboard and looked at that together, it was about different parts of a plant, then covered fruits/vegetables and which ones have seeds, then we planted some seeds, so that will be ongoing. And between vegetable Sea Monsters and pots of seeds, my kitchen windowsill is beginning to look more like a home ed one instead of a clean tidy one. No, I don’t think the two things are mutually exclusive but, um …
Oh, and someone else emailed me some more (better) photos from Saturday!
Right, I have a huge pile of laundry to sort/iron so I must stop blogging and get on with it …
February 21st, 2006 at 16:42
Yum to the Chocolate fudge cake (mouth waters at the very thought!) Don’t suppose you have a recipe handy for that? (pretty please!)
Josiah looks so cute doing his science
February 21st, 2006 at 17:42
ROFL at the “four pieces too many”….so how many pieces then?
Yes, lets have the recipe
Coats arrived this morning, thankyou so much!
February 21st, 2006 at 17:45
um, 5
Will post the recipe later
February 21st, 2006 at 18:06
make that 6 …
February 21st, 2006 at 19:36
But you didn’t mention that you’d got rid of all the sofas and the new one won’t arrive for 12 weeks! (Steve is at our house… I am not that psychic)
February 21st, 2006 at 19:38
rofl, Susannah, no, because I would have been ribbed mercilessly about the sofas … as I probably will be now, just watch
February 21st, 2006 at 19:49
rofl at grassing up!!! we would have noticed on flickr anyway Sarah!
recipe please – I am expanding baking repertoire
February 21st, 2006 at 20:37
Seriously you should have a website to share your ‘planning ahead’ skills – I would pay to subscribe. There have been some classics.
February 21st, 2006 at 20:39
knew you wouldn’t be able to resist
February 21st, 2006 at 20:59
It was lucky I posted when I did. I am getting a new PC and have sold this one on ebay, a bloke is about to pick it up, the next one isn’t due to be deliv
February 21st, 2006 at 22:00
pmsl!
February 21st, 2006 at 22:23
what – not the nice new “leather” not off the back of a lorry sofas surely? What you getting instead then?
February 21st, 2006 at 22:34
Go for Sarah – it’ll be quick, easy and so retro
February 21st, 2006 at 22:35
Let’s do that again.
Go for this
February 22nd, 2006 at 1:27
Oh SARAH! You are so funny. Mind you, we’ve been looking at some houses with 3 reception rooms, we might need sofas from the back of lorries…
February 22nd, 2006 at 8:53
Film night’s not going to be very comfy …
12 weeks though? That’s, like, May! Shall we bring our own beanbags and floor cushions when we come?
February 22nd, 2006 at 9:02
rofl … thankfully we do have another lounge
February 22nd, 2006 at 9:59
Does this mean we are going to Exeter at some point or was that speculative ‘when we come’?
February 22nd, 2006 at 11:28
No film night on Sunday then?
February 22nd, 2006 at 15:22
not on the big screen, for a little while – but you know us, can’t do without films for that long, we still have a big tv! Anyway, we invited you last Sunday, Neil, and you didn’t come!