Somebody sort out the NHS. Please. It’s being run by lunatics. I phoned up for Amelie’s allergy appointment and they couldn’t offer me an appointment until the day after the 13 weeks that we must be seen within. This meant that she couldn’t offer me that appointment, because then she wouldn’t have been seen within […]

Saturday we reduced to another paddling trip to Postbridge, before buying bbq stuff and heading back to the campsite ready to babysit M and Iz and Joe and Lou wanted to go to a concert. (To be fair, i think ‘wanted’ states Joe’s stance on the particular band rather too strongly… 😆 ) So we […]

Friday needed to be at a slightly more leisurely pace after all that and as cousin M was better, we decided to meet up with Joe and the girls at Castle Drogo. (LOVE National Trust membership, worth every penny!) Had a somewhat torturous trip up there; it’s a very, VERY narrow lane and quite stepp […]

Thursday we had a VERY LONG DAY. Had intended to spend it with cousins, but M was sick so had to stay away from her really, given our “don’t want tummy bug in a field” status. Got lunch and ate that under Kestor, then took a walk up to see if anyone had found our […]

We’ve had just under a week away and it was too nice to even spend time blogging this time, even with the wireless campsite 🙂 Before we went we had a high maintenence few days, most of which is a blur now but some of which involved me working extremely hard on my new shop […]

I completed my week of “work in the morning, tidy at lunch time, go out in the afternoon.” Today the kids got their stuff done in record time; maths, reading, music and ‘something else meaningful’ – MF sent 54 parcels, making this week the busiest week of parcels ever; 201. Bit scary. Am, frankly, praying […]

… you can’t say fairer than that. Look at all those blogs 😆

This morning was a bit bleary for several reasons too tedious to go into but i woke up rather sharply when i went on to the drive to investigate my latest stock dleivery, only to discover that the company i ordered from but specifically requested didn’t send me the stock till mid-september had ignored my […]

Plans for afternoons out went awry when Max overslept and the weather was awful, so he took the car and we were stuck home in the rain. Briefly considered a walk, but didn’t fancy the swim home 🙄 Spent the morning normalling and very determinedly listening to people read; Fran is heavily into a copy […]

I promised the girls we’d spend every possible afternoon out this week, so long as they did some work in the morning and uncomplainngly left the public areas of the house tidy at lunchtime. On Monday they kept their word, so i tried to take them to Hill Farm for berry picking. Unfortunately it was […]