Well, now that Blogger is working again,

lets add some more pictures on.
On Wednesday we went for a walk with the gang up to the lock where we had a picnic. The bigger kids spent most of their time chucking mud into the river and getting really, really filthy. Part and parcel of being four, I reckon. The tide mark on the bath showed she had a good time! Rowan was her usual rock-star self and sat in the wagon with her shades on, taking it all in!

Thursday was a bit of a pyjama day - I recieved a black and white indio wrap that I had traded for my plum elipsen and its really rather lovely. Here it is with the rest of the stash.

 

Yesterday Tilda's Timbuktu Ocah Doll Sling arrived and she seems quite taken with it. We went to Sarah's for cake-club then briefly stopped in at Nyree's to say hello to the kittens and to collect Nyree's blocking wires for when I finally finish the Cassandra shawl - I'm about four rows away now but they are very long rows, so they take a while to get through - a couple of hours each!

Wagons Roll!

Well since Parcelforce refused to redeliver unless I paid £5.50 and then waited another four days, I took the girls to the post office to collect. I had to tie it onto my shopping trolley frame with bungees, with some effort we got it home! I managed to put it together with Winnie wrapped on my front, then we took it on a maiden voyage to Asda. It makes a good dolly bed when not in use too!

Also arriving today was the Crazy fish (Pesci Pazzi) wrap that I traded for my Ocah. We have a matching doll sling too and its very similar to the colours in Eva.

 

Fun Club May '11

No pics today, I'm afraid.  We went to the Fun Club this morning - a local Home Ed group (Christian, but we'll cope - I didn't spontaneously combust upon entering the hall). Today they had lots of boxes of artefacts loaned by the Museum Service and the older kids were split into groups where they looked at the objects with some elderly people who had memories of using them - a really lovely idea! We were upstairs with the little people who weren't really very interested - we were talking about old toys vs new ones and pretty much everyone ended up playing with playdough!
After the activity, we came down and had lunch together in the main hall which is really nice. Tilda did a fair bit of running about and came home happy. I came home with blisters from my (normally fine) El Naturalista shoes, so I'm not impressed. Had to buy cheap flipflops on the way home! We posted our OCAH sling off to Beth and are awaiting a new Pesci Pazzi tomorrow! Steve is also expecting his own Ocah - a plain black wrap conversion.
We missed the delivery of my wagon - stupid Parcelfarce - so I'm guessing that despite my asking for redelivery tomorrow on their website, it won't get here until Thursday.

Sunday BBs (Bacon Butties)

Had a lovely morning at Donna's with a big pile of bacon sandwiches. Tilda and Louis played (mostly) beautifully! Steve had a try with Donna's new OCAH and declared it to be an extrememely comfortable HIT!

The most cheerful wrap in the world!

Yesterday was quite a tiring, but happy day. Tilda was, for the most part, lovely. Steve had his eye checked and its looking good so far. The afternoon saw us head to Sarah's for friday cake club, then just up the road to see Nyree and family and welcome them to town as they move into their new home.The house needs a clean and some paint, but looks like somewhere nice to settle down in, with a glorious garden! Nyree seemed supremely happy and it was wonderful to see!

This morning saw Bebina Old Rainbow wrap arrive. I've wanted one since 2007, so very excited to finally get one! It is seriously soft and wonderful!

With Tilda,

and Winnie's face when she saw Tilda in it! Not impressed!

Oh my woolly word!!

Somebody has abducted my usually fairly pleasant 4 year old and replaced her with some sort of demon! She had the mother of all tantrums in Tesco - when I went to take her toy back to the shelf, I literally could hear her from the other end of the shop and its a Tesco EXTRA! I took her downstairs while Steve paid for it and had a good audience of tutting, smug, judgy onlookers for the ten minutes it took. When we eventually got home, she walked into the house and slammed the front door, locking us out. Luckily the kitchen window was open, but Steve knackered his shoulder in whilst climbing the gate. Here's Winnie waiting in the car for Steve to break in!

Behaviour didn't improve much for the rest of the day with lots of pointless destruction and fibbing. Hopefully I'll get my nice girl back tomorrow.
I put together all the various bits for Steve's demo doll - the head came from a B&M Bargains doll, the body and limbs were bought separately. Nyree  brought round the glass beads and polyprop beads to weight it with and I stuck them all together. The so far nameless doll, weighs approx 6.5lbs but feels so much heavier!

 

I also managed to put together a slip knot photo tutorial as well, so the day wasn't entirely wasted!

Perpetual mess

What little got tidied yesterday is now a crap-hole again. Really very annoying! I'm found out that Winnie isn't particularly impressed with banana, but does like carrot-poofs!
Steve has been messed around by work again today and is an upset/angry ball of misery now. He's cancelled going on his brother's Stag weekend so he could go to a meeting today but when he got there nobody knew anything about it! soooo frustrating! Now he's gone back in to babysit the others who haven't completed the work they should have. Not fair.

On a happier note, here are pics of Tilda's workbook from yesterday - there are still bits to go in it and it needs more colour, but things are looking good!

 Tilda decorated herself with a Sharpie,

I've made some frogs for the ELEPhants to decorate tomorrow. The frogspawn delivery has been delayed due to a tummy-bug, but hopefully should arrive soon.

Tried Steve's new tussah silk nino that Nyree has acid-dyed for him - its very nice indeed!

Mothering Sunday

Today started too early for my liking, with Winnie the first to waken. Here she is learning her IT skills on kneebouncers.com.

Pretty much a normal Sunday here, but I got a lovely pink sparkly card from the girls,and this week I've already received a new camera and a big bundle of wool, so I'm very lucky! In the supermarket this morning Tilda insisted upon buying me flowers, so I have a lovely bunch of fresias - which smell absolutely beautiful!
After lunch we went for a spot of geocaching. The first we went to,GC2P877 was too tiny and we didn't find it, despite looking for half an hour, so we went to another close by, GC2ANY5, was nice and easy and Tilda swapped a magnet for a whistle!
When we got home, I managed a most impressive (for me) ruck and set about tidying the kitchen cupboards. Everything over a year out  of date is for the bin, all of the allergicky stuff will have its own space, to be renamed the shelf of death! Here are the before and during shots - still not finished yet though.