Snicky Sneeze Chandwich

Whilst emptying boxes yesterday we came across these.........

this was bought for me by my friend Laura, just before we came out here.

 (if you are reading this I have lost your email address, 

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And this was given to Small by one of his school friends as a leaving present.

So we have put them on the tree (for a few days) and will definitely put them on again next year.

No snow overnight.  Smallest woke up twice with nightmares.  In the first one Lightning McQueen was telling him off and in the second one Mickey Mouse was punching and kicking him.  It was a windy night too and something was clanging and a banging outside, Huffle got up several times to find out the source.  We're still not sure what it was!

We spent a lazy morning, breakfasting.  The boys watched the TV in the basement.  Huffle watched the football in the lounge and Moo and I watched Downton Abbey Christmas on the computer.  The sun was shining and it was a beautiful day.

We decided to go to the cinema this afternoon so started to get ready.  The sun went in and the snow came down.  Not flurries but blizzarding snow.  We still went out.  While we were getting ready we spotted a black squirrel sitting in the tree outside my bedroom window.  He was trying to get the seeds off the ends of the branches and was very adept at jumping from branch to branch, with snow covering his head and his tail helping him to balance.  It was really entertaining to watch.

Scaling high branches just to get that last seed!

Can't really see him in this one but at least you can see how high he is!

Found a pub and had Sticky Cheese Sandwiches with fries (Smallest called it Snicky Sneeze hence the title today).  The food took forever to come out.  Luckily we were next door to the cinema so we got it put in take out boxes and smuggled it into the cinema.

This isn't my photo, it was on the Internet.

It was a lovely old fashioned Art Deco place.  We watched Arthur Christmas (Smallest thought his best friend from the UK was in it. Ahhhhhhh).

oh hello Stan, fancy seeing you here

Now he's a handsome fellow - where did you meet him Huffle?

..... And Wall-E

It was a good family film about Christmas.

This was the carpet.  Popcorn and film reels.

Moo in the foyer taking photos of us?

The foyer

Smallest sitting waiting in The foyer

When we were coming out it was snowing even harder and was -6. brrrrrrrrrrrr.

We came home, played a game.  Huffle ironed his shirts for tomorrow (back at work), I wrote to my friend back home and Moo did a crossword.

Friends, Cars and Bicycles

Yesterday we visited some friends. The weather was good and they played and scuffled in the garden.

Today we went to the Cinema to see Cars2. It was the safe option for me because I wasn't feeling too well and I didn't want to run around, plus it was a sticky hot day.

This is not a brilliant photo as we were in the cinema - I had just given them a packet of Maltesers and told them they couldn't eat them till the film started.  They were giggling and smelling them.  Smallest HAD to have one but Small managed to wait.  Nice one Small.

It was an okay film, I thought the first one was much better, but the Smalls enjoyed it.


Then the Smalls had their hair cut and played with their friends (who happened to be the hairdressers children).

Small decided he would climb the tree, swing from the branch 'like a monkey' and grab hold of a rope............

......... and then fall off - whoops (oh yes whilst wearing roller skates) - EXTREME!!!




Then the boys went for a bike ride

I am waiting for the storm that has been forecast and I don't mean the boys fighting again, although that's happening right now. I asked smallest why they can't just get on and play nicely together. His reply was "I think it's because we are not girls!"