Dog Sitting and an Inspection

What a lovely weekend we have had.  After a tiring few days away on the school residential trip I came home on Friday to our furry visitor, Pixie.  She was coming to stay for the weekend as Julie had her son's wedding on the Saturday.  Sarah was very pleased as she loves Pixie, taking her for walks and generally just fussing over her.  Pixie arrived on Friday evening with her bowls, her food and her crate ( hmm she had other ideas on this one).  She is such a pretty little dog and has a lovely nature as well.

Well we all settled down for the evening forgetting that Daniel was out at Cadets.  Now that was interesting when he came home as Pixie was very very wary of him and even uttered a little grumbling growl as she backed off.

Well all was well the next morning as Daniel was no longer in his uniform but just lolled around in his dressing gown.  Off he went to Cadets again whilst Sarah and I decided to take Pix out for a lovely walk in St Leonards Forest.  We hadn't been there before so I was a little wary of getting a little lost but we were fine and found our way around the place.  Beautiful countryside as well as a little wild in places.

 

  

We all had a great walk even when it started to rain a little but that didn't matter.

Pixie came home settled down with whoever was sitting down and chilled for the rest of the day until Sarah and I took her for another walk later that evening.  She came back and flopped.  Although she had stayed in her crate on the Friday night, she had whined a fair bit so Sarah took pity on her and let her sleep on her bedroom floor for the night.  She slept soundly until I go up this morning at 5.30 - well the maths planning was calling.

Today was Daniel's annual inspection so he set off for Squadron at 8.30 this morning with a packed lunch and his taxi awaiting.  We didn't have to be there until 1 this afternoon.  Another day where we were grateful that the weather wasn't too bad as it was all outside.  Daniel was carrying the banner and doing the bugling when the flag was brought down this evening.  He did so with dignity and respect and it was great to see.

   

Very proud of him and he even made friends with Pixie before he went.

Completed

I completed my task for today, have managed to get rid of all my boxes except the ones with some photographs in and even managed to sort out the filing cabinet and move it from one to the other.  Tomorrow is another day and I am hoping that all my bits and pieces will be collected from other freecyclers and the clutter can go out of the house. 

 Martin managed to build Daniels wardrobes, hopefully he will do Sarahs tomorrow and we will be on the way to getting sorted.  Daniels room looks tidier than it has since he moved in.  All it needs now is a bit of a hoover and it is done.  At some point we can redecorate it but not just yet.

I really should go and eat something now as feeling slightly peckish.

My task for today

My task is to get rid of the final boxes from our move.  I am determined that they will be sorted and gone......  Anything we don't need will be going on freecycle, if I can get it to work..... it has been playing up since I moved and I cannot seem to get logged into the new area.   At last this morning, I did it.......  So my priorities for today are

• to get children off on their biology field trip and time is approaching to kick them out.
• get these boxes sorted.
• get a cuppa
• do some shopping
• fill in guarantee cards for new items and send them off.
• send out new address letters to friends and relatives.
• literacy and maths planning
• relax

Apart from that the day is my own.  Looks pretty miserable out there as well so may well stay in as much as possible.

Missing in Action...................so much activity, now exhausted

Yes I went missing, thanks to moving house on our return from our wonderful holiday and thanks to BT not doing what they said they would do when they said they would do it but doing the opposite and causing us more problems than needed.  The first engineer that came to connect us, managed to fuse the box without knowing so we waited another week for another engineer and the threat of a £99 charge to sort out the first engineer's work.  Sadly that engineer was not allowed to flick a switch and put on the broadband as yet another engineer had been booked for the Monday to "flick the switch"....... slightly frustrating but we are now back and I will hopefully resume some service over the next few days.

  

However just to put some piccies on a few photos of our new home, not sorted entirely yet but we are getting there.