just another morning here

Have just enjoyed a lovely little trip up country seeing various people. It felt great to get away even just for a weekend and really good to catch up with so many friends and family

First we landed at the Puddles’ very late on Friday night, it was great to have their hospitality for the weekend – special mention to Max who looked after children at various points as well as cooking! On Saturday Merry gave me a guided tour of her unit and I shopped for various birthday presents that I needed (must remember to run the order through the website today!).

We went on to Helen & Kirsty’s 70th birthday party, which was very enjoyable – I loved seeing old friends and the children did too; Josiah in particular had a ball running around with his mates. Photos are in the usual place but these are some of my favourites.

On Sunday, after earning myself lots of Mummy points for letting Anna buy Rocket Dogs for summer school shoes, we headed off to see our friends Stuart & Liz, who long time blog readers may remember. They’ve moved house recently so it was nice to catch up with them too. The kids had fun playing with fire in their garden!

From there we carried on down to my parents’ in Oxfordshire where we stayed for a couple more nights. Lovely time with them, playing games, sitting around chatting, eating delicious food, and I even got to introduce most of them to geocaching too

We also had much hilarity remembering this funny story that my Dad always used to tell at church Christmas parties, probably the memory of it was more amusing than it actually is, but it made us all laugh, a lot! One of those where the telling of it is far funnier than the punchline itself!

Unfortunately Anna wasn’t well yesterday and Josiah has been asleep for most of the day today – something worse than just overtiredness I think. Still, it gives us a good excuse to sit around not doing very much today and perhaps tomorrow as well. Not much else planned this week apart from catching up on the inevitable washing and cleaning that needs doing at the end of term.

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