Here comes the HOTSHOT

What a day, we get to avoid the jingoistic flag waving and do something useful instead……. It’s kid’s football tournament season today was the turn of meddyg sy’n who had a great couple of hours, after getting a blister in the first match he ‘bravely’ battled on ploughing a furrow on the left side of midfield. The Toxic Monkey meanwhile kept insisting we play football with him for hours when all I wanted was to sit in the chair and watch the match…. Eventually Mrs OB and TM went of to the loo and obviously missed meddyg sy’ns finest footballing moment, collecting the ball on the left he plays it across the pitch to the right wing where his team-mate takes one touch and shoots across the goalie who can only palm it out leaving out hero to run in and rifle the ball into the roof of the net from 10 yards out while under pressure from a defender. He then looked at me in surprise (don’t know who was the most surprised him or me) as he usually doesn’t go that far up the pitch… Well done young man

Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting

Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday……. Will we survive the sleepover? One of meddyg sy’ns classmates is staying overnight more to follow

Update – 11:45 – Phone call – Off out for a picnic with one of the Toxic Monkey’s friends at a pagan well (all off five minutes drive away) back in a bit

Update – 14:25 – Lovely picnic, Lovely Chat, back 25 mins later than expected, just enough time to open the windows to release the noxious dog smells before the guest arrives

Update – 14:40 – 10 mins in and they’re arguing about who knows the most about Star Wars

Update – 14:50 – 20 mins in and the floor has disappeared under a pile of lego

Update – 15:50 – Still Legoing, though the Power Ranger box has made an appearance

Update – 17:00 – Pasta & Sauce time, clean bowls all round, not sure how they managed to eat with all the talking going on

Update – 18:00 – Ice Creams and footballs into faces (ouch)

Update – 19:30 – Board games, Uno, noisy, noisy

Update – 20:30 – Bedtime (yeh right)

Update – 21:25 – Silence…… bliss….. ’til they wake up

Monday Monday, So Good To Me

And so to Easter Monday… A day for relaxing… or in our case a day for going to Homebase and getting stuff to fix the toilet (well part two of getting stuff to fix it). Hammock strung up (Hurrah!!!), Get to test it out (Hurrah!!!), Get kick out of it by children after 30 seconds (Boooo!!!), Sulk. Dogs play the Standing, Sitting, Lying game (Hurrah!!!). Toilet fixed and flushing (Hurrah!!!), Bits left over by Mrs OB (??????), Mrs OB decides the design is all wrong and removes the handle return and replaces it with a bag of stones (????), Toilet flushes despite everything (Hurrah!!!), Monsters play on waterslide (Hurrah!!!), Friends drop in on their way home (Hurrah!!!), Indiana Jones Movie (Hurrah!!!)

• The Monsters in the hammock
• Lazy dogs
• Mrs OB
• Lazy Dogs (part 2)
• More Hammocky
• Patented Toilet Fixing (bag of stones)
• Wheee
• Whoops
• Whooo
• Whee

You Say Frittata I Say Frittater

A sunny Easter weekend making ice lollies, paddle boats, frittata and sleeping

Tintern, The Old Station

You can spend a good few hours here with the kids, there’s always a treasure hunt for them (Daleks this time), a nice walk for the dogs, picnic benches, ice cream at the cafe…. you can even camp here if you’re so inclined

Note the way Ziva seems to dislocate he tongue, freaky