Buy ants

Ok, boy got an ant farm for his bday as one of his presents. Sat him down for a chat, does he want ant farm (meanwhile praying he says no!), looks up at me with big eyes and nods. Make him repeat mantra of "I will not let them loose inside the house" 3 times before I buy ants online. Surely one of my more bizaare purchases.

So, the question is, whats been your most bizaare online purchase?

Can you tell

that I have gone back to work yet? March there are loads a posts, April, not so much!

Work good, am feeling fit and healthy. Have taken up Bikram yoga, am marginally addicted to it, feel fantastic after every class, B is going to come along with me as she lives nearby. I dont exactly look glam after a class (think dragged through several hedgerows backwords and sideways) but after every class I feel the need to do another class almost immediately. Plus I am burning about 1000 calories. I will save the story of the sweaty man in speedos for another time. Mental note.

Kids really good, they are mischievous in ways I cannot begin to explain. We were at a soft play today and they put plastic balls down their tops as boobies. I have some excellent pics of the boy doing a dolly parton. Mental note for when he brings his first girlfriend home.....

E, you will be pleased to know storage is finished, had a brutal clear out. Pic attached.

Had a brilliant time with K on my last weekend before work, we had a very sociable afternoon which then spilled over into the pub, poor babysitter probably wanted to run away when faced with two merry ladies and kids high on easter eggs.

We had our weekend away, was good, am suitably refreshed. Had a wicked weeekend with E and went to Henley where we unashamedly went through half the menu at Maison Blanc pattisserie. Scrummy.

Er, think thats mostly it. S had a fantastic time at LM and M wedding.

Kids storage

Its finally here and I have started "re-configuring it", it maybe not so nice to look at now, but watch this space.

New Haunt

My new haunt is the cafe at Pastorale antiques in Lewes. I treated myself to lunch there. There is not only a free jug of water with lemon and lime on every table but free lolipops as well. The food is great and very reasonable. I ordered a main course and got so much free salad that I almost burst. Their red cabbage salad with cinammon and raisins was to die for.

Ommited to mention

Whilst I was clearing up my arts and crafts table at the church and everyone else was busy tidying up the church, returning the church to normal worship stylie, I get a nod from one of the older ladies. I walk over, intrigued.

An explanation soon emerges: tt would seem that as the chairs had been put back, Madam walks up the aisle and at the end of the aisle, near the pulpit, pees herself. Apparently there was quite a big puddle. S goes to sort her out in the toilets, I try and find Gods mop. Turns out that one of the ladies is already busying herself with putting disinfectant in the water and heads out to tackle the mess.

Muttering apologies I get kids back into car to head home, S tells me that he had his hand down Gods U bend as Madam needed so many tissues to blot her clothes dry, that the toilet got blocked up. I am sensing she does stuff like this deliberately as she likes the fuss.

Dear Budgens

I love our local store [we dont, the prices are astronomical and the selection poor] but I have come to notice that you dont stock clotted cream. Stocking this product could potentially bring in extra sales as there is a more mature demographic in the village and I am sure they all enjoy their scones.

Yours

blah blah

[Sit back and await some nice voicher in the post and for them to stock clotted cream]

Careful what you wish for / freaky goings on.....

Ok, the first update I wont be able to tell anyone about for approx 6 months. Dont even ask me until then as I wont tell. I wont. Just ask me what happened in Lewes approx 1.5 weeks ago. Ask me that after 1 Sep and I will fess up like the French.

Remember the blog entry about when I went to Hungary and I met a woman with triplets? Small world, she seemed like a (stressed) lovely person. I am sure she still is, but why risk your kids reading this article?

Also, remember my post recently about my kind of church? Well, turns out the vicar is short of peeps to help out at the family friendly gathering once a month. I have volunteered to help prep the art and craft stuff, a) as I love that sort of stuff b) as she seemed genuinely stressed this month. Chris one of the curates has asked me for my take on how the family service can be made better. I wont menion the MJ songs just yet eh...