school hols

We have just had two weeks school hols in the middle of winter and what a difference the Body Shop makes !! Instead oif staying in every day we were able to get out and about a lot. We visited an old work colleague, Lucy, from AXA who lives in Tapping, about an hour and a half north of us, we went up by train and she picked us up from the station so all very stress free and great fun. She has a son who is lovely and always seems to be smiling and the girls just love him so they even enjoyed themselves.

We also went up to Rockingham for a spot of shopping, Lucy had given me two free passes for the cinema so the girls went to see a film whilst I food shopped so everyone was happy once again !! There were sleepovers at ours and the girls went to other peoples so barely a day went by withoust something happening.

We went up to Perth one day with Karen and her girls and the kids were able to pick up a 'kids pass'. This enabled Nakita to have a couple of slides down a ski (man made snow, obviously) slide on a rubber ring (Tallulah was too tall) and Nakita also had a session throwing snowballs. There were lots of other things they could do too but we didn't have the time unfortunately. We went to Scitech (a bit like @ Bristol but smaller) and ended up getting an annual pass as it was so easy to get to and will enable us to have free trips for a year and we also did a spot of shopping much to Tallulah's excitement !

Karen had both girls for us one night so Paul and I went out for a lovely meal - we have finally found a restaurant we both like - shame it's pricey !! She is having them again for us on Saturday night but Paul has had his annual night out now so not too keen. I am still working on him !

Another night I had a girley movie night with a few friends, drinks and nibbles. We watched Shirley Valentine followed by Calendar Girls and it was a great night.

In between time I have managed to paint Tallulah's room and we are now just waiting for Paul to finish off the flooring and noticeboard so she can move back in and I can clean and repair the spare room !

Back to life with a vengence now. I hadn't booked many Body Shop parties in for July as I wanted time with the girls but now find I have 9 for August and September, October and November will now be mad due to Christmas. I need to start getting some early nights !

08:30 - Wed 23 July 2008