Afternoon in the Park

Lovely trip to Victoria Park this afternoon with Gallifrey and Miss E.
Coffee, playground and gossip - a winning combination.

At the Bandstand

The trek home.

Wedding Anniversary

Yesterday was our 13th Wedding Anniversary - and we had great night out. We went to Manchester - ate at Cafe Rouge and saw Die Hard 4.0 at the Printworks.

In other news I had my hair cut yesterday - it is now much shorter and I am very happy with it - so here is the new me.

Tudor Girls

M had a great trip out yesterday to Speke Hall with her big cousin E. It was a special Tudor Day and the girls has a fab time dressing up in the Tudor costumes.

Busy having fun

After doing probably rather too much during the first week of the holidays - we were out most of every day - I've tried to keep things a bit quiter this week. We still seems to have done rather a lot though. It was Gma's birthday on Tuesday - so we made birthday cards and cake and had a trip to Otterspool Prom for a play at our favourite playground.



Wednesday was a trip to Gallifrey's house where M and B had a lovely time playing in the garden with E (thank you to Gallifrey for the picture)



Every afternoon M has been to the Bitesize dance/drama workshops at the Brindley and on Thursday morning she did the Floaty Fairies crative workshop there too.

And other than that I've been trying to tidy up around the house and have managed to do a respectable amount of scrapping trying to catch up on my enormous backlog of photographs

How much?

Had a horrible time last Friday when British Gas came to service our back boiler. The engineer ended up disconnecting it from the mains leaving us with no hot water. It's dangerous and seems to be beyond help. Yesterday another man came from BG to quote for a new Combi Boiler - £4,400! Needless to say we are having a few other quotes - because there is no way we can pay that.

Brick up the Mersey Tunnels

A and I had a great trip last night to the Royal Court Theatre our friend R. We saw comedy/musical Brick up the Mersey Tunnels. It was rather rude, but extremly funny, full of great take song take offs like'Somewhere over the Mersey' and 'The Blue Rinse Mansions of the Wirral'. It featured Andrew Schofield who as always was just perfect. The highlight for me had to be the demolition of the Widnes Runcorn Bridge accompanyed by the song 'Bridge over troubled waters'. All in all - not Shakespeare - but lots of fun and just the thing to cheer us up.

First day of the holidays

I love the summer holidays - and now I have a car it is so much easier to get out and about with the children. Yesterday we went swimming at Northgate in Chester (it's a bit of a drive but the pool there is such fun it's worth it). After tea we all went to the park before the rain started again - I love this picture of M having fun.