FEAST, FIRE AND FANCY FOOTWORK

Shippers Ben and Dave turned up this morning at just after 9am. They started in the shed and then moved swiftly through the house. The beds have gone, the bedding has gone. The kitchen table and chairs are all wrapped up.

We emptied the fridge freezer and cooked the contents. There were fish, fish fingers, ham, cheese, chips, scampi, bread, beans, scrambled egg! Coke, juice and tea. The shippers tucked into the feast while we sidled off down to our village pub with Grandad and MIL Dragon. We had a lovely meal of haddock and chips and peas. Yahoo popped down and had a quick drink with us (and a last goodbye - she doesn't want us to go you know!).

The loft is now empty. There are lots of boxes loaded onto the truck. When Smallest came home he had a look.

I popped round to "Everetts" today and had a coffee with her and "Em". Everett bought me a lovely book of Crafts from Kirsty Allsop - I shall be making some things from that book once we are settled.

Then "The Chaps" arrived and Big Chap and I picked up Small from school and they played football while Smallest and Little Chap stuck stickers in a Lego book (which Chap bought for the boys).

Little Chap and Smallest

Two little bears for our little bears from the chaps. Aren't they cute?????

Mr. Cosy Warm came today to collect some logs. His boiler had broken so I felt sorry for them and said they could have some of our logs. He came over with a wheelbarrow, filled it and I wheeled back for him. When he opened the garage to put the wheelbarrow in, I nearly fell over with shock. There were bags and bags and bags of coal lining the whole side of one wall and logs up to the ceiling of the other wall. He said it would keep them warm for twelve months. Oh well at least I know we have contributed to their warmth for a couple of days!!

This evening we visited The Elderflower Meadows and said our goodbyes.

KT did some more street dancing for us and we captured it on video. Her Street Dance name is KTBakair. I have posted this on YouTube but although we can watch it, we can't add it on to this blog. So I promise to add it as soon as I can. video here

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We are now having trouble with our wi fi so may not be able to blog for a bit, but thanks to our neighbour L, we have borrowed her connection.

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I am using a new blogging tool today called BLOGSY. So please bear with me if things look a little different. It should allow me to blog using JUST the IPad so I will be able to effectively blog whilst in the rental home (and the airport) without the need of the computer - good eh?! We'll see how I get on!

I had a fabulous evening out (yes again, but this time my last!) with my Teddy Bears Picnic friends (and a few extra). They bought me some lovely presents:-

A beautiful handmade picture from Clare@Jumbleberries

From The Teddy Crew (Sarah, Wendy, Lorraine, Clare, Nicola and Zara) a Cath Kidstone Craft Bag, two union jack tins, a union jack pinny, great Britain cupcake cases and a union jack oven mit - WOW - I can imagine opening the door to someone in Canada wearing my pinny, holding my oven mitts with the smell of baking and a pile of cupcakes about to go into my new tins - wahooooooooo.

The little chicken reminded her of the chicken I taught her to knit some time ago. Ahhhhhhh.

A gorgeous hand stitched jute bag (love my bags!) made by LizzieDotDot

and a photo in a lovely frame of THE MUMS from our antenatal group when Small was indeed very small. This was from YORK who also bought me a bottle of wine and some chocs which we devoured before we went out - naughty

We had a lovely lovely time. We met up for a drink and a chat and a laugh and then we went to the Tapas Restaurant. There was soooo much food (but we managed to eat most of it), plenty of giggles and lots of alcohol.

What a fabulous night - thanks girls.

Huffle and Grandad enjoyed their day out at Wembley watching England and Spain - England won.

New app on Grandad's phone allows him to take a panorama shot (and 3D but you need a 3D tv to see it - doh)

The boys are still at Moo's so Huffle and I have got all the suitcases from the loft and are preparing to pretend pack what we will be taking on the plane. First of all we have to clean the cases as they are dusty and dirty.

We are all meeting at Grandmas later for dinner. Hope those Smalls have behaved themselves!!!!!

Meadows, Hats and Fireworks

We went to see our lovely friends the "Elderflower-Meadows" this morning. Lots of laughter and reminiscing. The kids played on the laptop and with Lego.

J and Mimo Elderfower-Meadow

Cheese

Smallest and Small on laptop

KT - Oh whaddya want now?

Computer Whizz Kids

KT showed us her street dancing.

That's one family we will dearly miss.

Grandad came round for lunch from the Chip Van today and helped Smallest choose some hats to wear for the bonfire.

Umm - Mummy's hat - yes that works!

Ooh look says Smallest - there's a flower on it

What about this one?

No - it looks better on me
(NOTE:  What are those strange teeth?)

Then we all got ready in our lovely warm hats, gloves, scarves (and Huffle put on his Mick Jaggers - base layer trousers with a pin stripe - he he).

We went to a firewaork display at a Garden Centre not too far away.

We met up with Grandad, Aunt and Uncle Pear.

Smallest and Grandad

The boys had Hot Dogs and Hot Chololate.

If you squint you can just see Unc Pear and Huffle

The Bonfire was huge with more than one Guy on top.

The fireworks were very impressive. 

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Ahhhhhhh

ahhhhhhhhhh

woooowwwww

heeeeyyyyyy

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Then we all went home