The boys were absolutely fine by themselves last night and although ClownRose was on hand should they need or want anything, they didn't call her. They went to bed at a reasonable time and looked after each other. Awwwwww. I owe them a Kasabian T-shirt each.
OMG we are soooo tired. Got woken up by Oliver the dog woof woof woofing at 6:50am. Huffle threatened to cut his tongue out (only to me, not the owner). The boys went off to school. Small decided he was going to give up his football as it was interfering too much with his schoolwork and band. We are so very proud that he came to that decision by himself. He was also, unjustly, concerned about the monetary aspect (we had to buy him a Football shirt and pay a mandatory fee) and the amount of driving I had to do to ferry him backwards and forwards (I may have complained I had to move various things around to accommodate him but I never would blame him for that). Anyway, he couldn't find his gym teacher/coach today so he sent a message with Al his friend and teammate. Now Al is thinking he doesn't want to play anymore. Oh dear!
Smallest was told, at the end of the day, that he will be losing his teacher this year as Paddigntons Dad will be moving to the Grade 7's. He was quite upset about it and I don't blame him. They do this every single year at the beginning of each new school year. They place everyone in their class, mess around with their seating, wait for them to be settled and get used to the new surroundings and then change things around. I mean it's not like it's a huge school and 100's of new people join each year. They can't just turn up and any 'I want to come to this school'. They have to register. He is getting a new teacher ASAP and not one from the school already. We hope it's a nice one. Shame because we all like PaddingtonsDad.
I left Huffle patiently waiting for the washing machine and working and I went off to work. We didn't do much today. Jan didn't turn up until coffee break and we were worried about her as she drives a long way and she has no mobile phone. She did turn up in the end and had got stuck on the highway for an hour and a half. She was ready for coffee! She also brought some lovely chocolatey Courgette Cake. MrsM and I harvested beans, cut back flox and thalectrum and collected seeds. I filled the pond with water and watered all the pots and dug out some geraniums for Suffolks garden. We think we may have to get all the frogs out of the pond and we all thought of Smallest, the frogman!
I had lunch with Huffle and then I went and gardened at Suffolks. I put around 15 geraniums in under the cedar hedge, cut stuff back and did a bit of weeding. I came home, Small was doing his homework and Smallest came home five minutes after me.
The washing machine people called Huffle and said they would be here between 11am and 2pm but when didn't arrive, he called them and they said they were on the way, they turned up around 3:30pm. Huffle said they were smelly, they wouldn't plumb the machine in and they left our old one on our grass instead of putting at the curb. Over here, if you place things at the curb, someone will always collect it. With electrical items, it is normally a scrap metal collector. It took Huffle a while to get the machine in place and hooked up but we got a load of washing on before we started dinner which Smallest helped me to make.
Note: my overseas friend, SpanishChica, suggested using the pesto we made on Salmon with breadcrumbs on top. It was delicious, especially as we used our breadcrumbs from the Courgette bread we made too. Very tasty and everyone liked it even Small who doesn't really like Salmon. Thank you SC, that's another one of your meals we will be having.
Smallest had his first Football Try Out this evening for his current team. OldCoach turned up too so his son could tryout as they don't like their current club and chatted with Huffle through the whole thing. We also chatted to Angel and Ju. Smallest worked very hard.
This evening we watched TheGreatBritishBakeOff while sorting washing. Arrrgggghhhh. It's lovely to ave a washing machine to wash when you want but it's a pain in the neck when you have a backlog!!!!
* so many blog titles today, I had to put them all in one.
TELETEXT: Small said he was checking the Stoke score by watching updates on the website. It reminded me of when you only had teletext and we had to explain to the boys what it was. We used to take the Mickey out of Grandad for watching teletext in the pub!!! BTW Stoke lost their game 2-0 and Leicester won their game 2-0. Just saying!
FENHSHAY: At the tryout today, a woman was walking round the path backwards. Actually walking backwards, facing the wrong way. We laughed and OldCoach asked what she was doing twice. She ignored him and gave him a mean look when she walked past again. Angel said she wondered if it was 'Fengshay'. She meant FengShui but we told her that was furniture moving. We're not quite sure what she was thinking of though and we have no idea why you would walk backwards.
MARK&SPENCER: another one of Angel's quotes when she asked us if UK had a Mark and Spencer. We sat and giggled and then had to tell her what it was really called.
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Glad you enjoyed the salmon xx
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