Saturday 13th June

Jamie and I headed out to the library this morning and stocked up more reading material and some books to help him out in his project about squirrels. After that we headed to Hobbycraft to see if they had a sew your own cuddly toy, in the form of a grey squirrel. They didn't have grey, but had a red squirrel, so we bought him and bought some grey fur fabric so we can copy the red onto grey - hopefully. We also bought a couple of make your own bracelets and hair accessories kits as a present for the party he was going to later in the afternoon.


After we got home and had lunch with Mike who was also home on his lunch-break we just chilled out and enjoyed ourselves. We had a game of backgammon and Jamie was beating me the whole way through the game, but I had the luck with the dice at the end of the game and managed to beat him almost with the last moves of the game!


Jamie was at his friend Lauren's birthday party this afternoon. We walked up to the community centre where the birthday party was, the weather was so lovely. We took Binnie and she was so good on the lead, I think it threw her that she had never walked that way before. When I got back I had a play on Facebook (a great time waster!) and caught up with some bits (about 40) that people had sent me. One of the other Mums, with a child at the party was on there too as I kept sending her stuff and she kept sending me stuff.


When Jamie got home he'd had a fantastic time, so we just chilled again and caught up with Robin Hood, and as I had predicted a couple of weeks ago Guy of Guisborne turned into a bit of a goodie, long may it continue. We are all having an early night in preparation for what we are hoping is going to be a bit of a special day tomorrow.


Ciao

Sue

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Reading challenge 1/16 - currently reading The Stone Rose by Jacqueline Rayner
SLYMI - 1/52

Long Walk with Binnie

I didn't get as much done as I wanted today, but I did have a very very long walk with Binnie, about 2 hours so I guess that is better than doing housework etc. Binnie was really well behaved, even when we saw about 8 ducklings with their mum near where Binnie was having a drink. I want to take the camera out over the weekend when we all go for a walk and take lots of photos of what is happening in the park. The bluebells are out in what we call Bluebell Wood and it looks so pretty, especially when the sun shines through the trees, at some spots you would not believe you are only 2 minutes walk from Tattenhoe, well except you can hear the noise from the A421.

When I did get home I found Mike parked in his car, home on his lunch break, he had forgotten his key, or left it in his other trousers! Silly! I hadn't planned on being out quite so long, so it wouldn't have been such a problem, but I really really enjoyed my walk, but ached as the day went on!

Just pottered on for the rest of the day.

First Day Back At School

Everything has gone very well at school, so that is good, it is always nice to get a new term off to a good start. Jamie was happy to head off this morning and the weather was so lovely too he had a good time, playing with all of his pals. Mike and I had a lovely long walk this morning did about 5km which we felt was a very good start to us trying to improve our fitness. Binnie was brilliant today and no matter how many times she lost her ball, she found it again, it was a real pleasure to be out and about walking with her and Mike. Jamie had a play in the park after school and then spent some time playing on the PC and talking to a couple of his friends.

As Mike was busy yesterday with his Aylesbury Friars stuff, off interviewing John Otway and 'Wild' Willy Barrett - be sure to check out www.aylesburyfriars.co.uk, we decided to have a roast dinner this evening. We had a lovely dinner and then Jamie headed off to bed.

I am a crafter, so have been pottering on over the past few days doing some scrapbooking layouts. I will upload some photos (once I have checked out how to do it) but have done a layout about Jamie, one about Mike and one of me and Midge Ure, all to follow. So now I am off to watch Ashes to Ashes with Mike and we will finish off a bottle of Zinfandel!