Well today started as planned. Except for the strange white stuff that fell from the sky. It never normally snows here, yet this morning it did, and confused everyone who lives here.

Amos went to school, I went online. Had a lovely email in my in box again, its a great way to start the day :) Took the girls to school, and went into Abby's for her class assembly. I was very proud of her, she had a small talking part and she did it!! She's quite shy and hates standing up in front of people. The mere idea of saying something as well terrifies her, and I did wonder if she might chicken out. But she didnt \o/

Then I picked up Jonathan, came back home. He went to play, I went online ;) Had planned to give him lunch then get on with the stuff I couldnt do yesterday. It was around about then that the day stopped going to plan :-\ I got a phone call from Amos' school, he was very pale, looked on the verge of fainting, could I go get him. So once again he is home, and not quite right. He's mostly fine, and hopefully a quiet afternoon reading and on the wii, then an early night and tomorrow he'll be ok.

If not, he'll have buggered my plans for a third day running!

Today I had a handful of things planned. Then Amos announced he was ill, and I scraped all of them :-\ He didnt have any real symptons, but he never misses school. He never moans about going, never has to be nagged to go, so when he says he's not up to going, I believe him. Oh, and he only ate half his dinner last night and went to bed voluntarily at 7.30pm!! He is back to eating me out of house and home again now though, so tomorrow will go to school again.

So instead of going out, I decided today was a good day to lay a new floor in the hall. Well, start laying one. I have finally cleared the old table out, put new floor in the corner, moved stuff round some more. I've only got cheap vinyl tiles, and I cant be bothered to worry about making the floor vaguely flat and level. But I hate the current floor more than I can explain. Half of it is a foul brown carpet, and the other half is where the carpet got removed and its a foul brown concrete. The new tiles are a pale parquet style, and even the little bit I've done so far looks sooooo much better.

Tomorrow I have Jonathan for the day, which as always should be lovely. He's very easy to look after, and in general a delight to be around. I may even get to run some of the errands I had planned for today.

I'm off now to watch Grand Designs, which I adore. And after the first few minutes of it, this looks like being a beautiful building

Wow, it really is a long time since I blogged.

Been long enough that I have actually done stuff that isnt just boring day to day crap. I've done that too, the washing machine still goes round often, the dog acts likes every time I take her for a walk is the first time ever, or since well, yesterday. The children continue to go to school, thank god.

In January I took a day off and went to London, been far too long since I was there, love it. Met up with a bunch of weird aol people ;) Usual sort of meet stuff, we mostly sat in pubs drinking, chatting and laughing. I believe quite a bit of sex happened too, sadly none of it involved me :-\

Bizarrely, having not been to central London in nearly 2 years, I ended up in the exact same place about 3 weeks later!! The kids and I had a fantastic day out. Someone I've known for nearly 20 years(scary!!) was turning 30, and while most people go out for a meal or throw a party, she organised a treasure hunt!! There wasnt any actual treasure, it was just for fun, and fun we had. There are even pics, I must sort some onto here.

A couple of weeks ago my brother came to visit for a few days. I dont see him very often, so it was lovely. And he is very useful :-D He fixed various little bits, like my leaking roof :-x He also did a load of new woodwork I've been waiting years for. I need to now get on and prime and gloss it all. Its already looking good, and hopefully soon it will look amazing. Its sooooo good to finally be getting some of my house sorted.

Ooooh and we finally got an ikea in Southampton. Took years of planning wrangling and building, but I now have cheap, reasonable furniture easily available to help finish the house off.

And once again, like buses, and going to London, having not seen my brother for ages, I then saw him again the week after. In half term he and his wife, and their girls, had a narrowboat holiday booked for the week. However as its out of season, its when maintenance on the canals happens, and annoyingly for them, this time it was on the stretch they were booked to go to! Which meant they could go up and down a fair bit of water, but no locks :-\ But cos they couldnt go far, they invited us to join them for a couple of days, so we did. We all loved it, I've been on ones before, but many years ago, before I had kids. Apart from the little bit where we had the M1 100 yards away, it was, as always, very relaxing. With a maximum speed of 4mph, you have to slow down.

I even managed to do some steering without crashing it \o/ And although there is a little tv onboard, it wasnt switched on. Instead the kids and us played connect 4 and cards. And my brother and I were remembering playing a specific card game as kids when we went to our Nans. And after he texted my mum for details, and googled the rules, we taught it to our kids. They really enjoyed it, and it was jsut so nice to sit around with the 5 of them and my brother playing cards. No technology or distractions, just plain old fashioned fun

Then last Saturday we went and had lunch in Guildford as my mother in law was over for a few days, and its nice for her to see the kids. And it means I keep vaguely in touch with that side of the family. I stuggle with many of them, but jsut cos the ex is a twat doesnt mean his family are. It had been 6 months since she and the kids had seen each other, and will be another 6 til they do again.

Then we went to see MY Mummy, as it was her birthday the next day. Despite seeing her far more than the mil, I alwayas enjoy seeing her. Except for one thing. She has bought the girls bloody High School Musical 3 on dvd, and I am currently having to sit through it yet again!!

It doesnt help that its the story of 2 teens madly in love, and being all gooey. I'm damn glad to not be a teen any more. But being single... why is it so hard to find a man I like, who likes me, who is single, solvent, loves dogs and tolerates kids??

So anyway, I guess thats most of my news. I promise, I will blog more often. I have been suitably chastised for the lack of posts recently, there is at least one person out there who is intereted in the mundanity of my life.

The government really do need to sort out the shortage of high quality psychiatic help ;)

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And she says I'm mad?? Hang on, I joined in....

Cant be bothered blogging. Doesnt feel like theres anything to say. None of you are really that bored as to care that this morning I walked the dog, and in a bit i'm going to have a bath. After that I expect I will load the washing machine, and do some washing up. I may wash the kitchen floor, go on facebook for a bit, then get kids, do dinner, wash up again, then once they are in bed tidy up. Again.

As for things that arent the H word related, stuff like feelings, or thoughts, I'm reluctant to say about on a public blog. As tends to be the way with me, the same few things go round and round my head. It doesnt get me anywhere, and is usually best to not share.

One of the strange men I met a few months ago is taking me for dinner again tomorrow. We've done this enough times now for it to jsut about be classed as a regular thing. Is nice to spend an evening away from the kids and with someone else cooking. And the company is lovely too ;) Before any of you get carried away, its not a 'relationship' just 2 people having a nice evening every couple of months or so.

And now for the weather. Very foggy out today. Near continuous noise of ships horns down on the water. Its starting to get annoying. Tomorrow there will probably be weatehr again. It wont be interesting then either.

I also appear to be both tired and hormonal. Not a good mix, and sometime soon not only will I be feelign a bit out of sorts, but will start on the most men are bastards thing again. Roll on tomorrow when I can bitch about men to a lovely man who will let me rant then cheer me up :)

Told you she was gorgeous!!

Its a girl !!!!!

FINALLY, 9 days late, Helen has had her baby!!!!!

I am very excited and looking forward to meeting her asap. She was born at 16.09 today, weight not yet known, and is called Rebekah Catherine.

I am baking a cake, new babies need such things. Well their mummy's do. And once its done I will go up for a very quick cuddle and to drop cake off. She will obviously be beautiful. I will try and get a pic or two.