we were invited round to some friends’ house yesterday for a lovely lunch with a fantastic pudding.
esther couldn’t eat all of her cheesecake so i had to finish it off which was a bit of a shame. people don’t realise how tricky it is being a parent !
we had a few friends (Ruth & Stephen and their children) round for lunch yesterday. they’ve reached the age of potty training for their eldest (thankfully we are through this stage ).
it’s funny how potty training brings the best/worst out of people (quite literally).
Ruth said to Kezia “do you use the lavatory when you need a wee” ?
Kezia said “no i don’t…” comedy pause, clearly thinking about the question “…i use the toilet”.
we’re looking after our friends’ children this weekend so they can go off and have a nice quiet weekend. so the question is, how do you amuse 4 children for 2 days ?
i hadn’t got a clue, but luckily jane had. she suggested they all drew on a long piece of paper. which they all did, happily, for ages:
when it was my turn to suggest a plan i chose the telly. this too proved popular (as can be seen here):
hoorah for kids play parks and 4-way see-saws
our friends paul, liz and little dougie came round yesterday for a lunch finding adventure. dougie is 7 months old today and is a very cute little chap.
kezia enjoyed having him to visit too.
remember matt and nancy’s wedding a couple of weeks back ?
well, you can read about it in their local paper. definately worth having a look.
it made me chuckle.
muchly.
we went to london today and completly randomly bumped in to some old friends in covent garden. here are all the girls watching an opera singer (whilst the olds sat drinking coffee).
we went to our friends ian and carolyn’s this afternoon. here is ian giving the girls some flying lessons.
safety notice – no children were hurt in the taking of these photos. but ian did look a bit warned (and worn) out by the time they’d finished.
here are matt and joy. except joy doesn’t like her photo taken so she’s exited. but i think it looks good anyway.
and i could see joy with my eyes when i took the photo. so she’s there, but not quite in frame.
our most lovely friends richard and julia have come down from hull (with hannah) as revenge for us visiting them last week. here they are dancing in the proper style.
(i don’t know about you but i’m just loving the slow sync flash effect thing)
we had to leave our friends’ dr who wedding reception a little early to get to another friend’s 40th birthday party. this too was fantastic with loads of friends from church.
sally has groovy dance lessons so lots of people were doing proper dancing. i prefer freestyle. so i did that in freestyle-corner.
i wore a patterned shirt with my velvet jacket (i had planned to wear my velvet dinner jacket but it had become too stinky thanks to being stored in the loft).
imagine my surprise when i noticed our friend anthony was also wearing a velvet jacket with a patterned shirt. i asked a friend what they thought it meant and she said “it means you are in sync with your local conservative councillor”. for that is what he is.
matt, my colleague and website landlord, today was also a timelord as he married his fincy, nancy (also a work colleague) in a dr who theme’d wedding. it was a fantastic thing with great people, a great place and great dr who props. we really enjoyed ourselves.
there was a police box, a dalek and K9. and people dressed up as people.
the dalek (and K9) were remote controlled by a suspicious man who was running up and down outside the windows trying to see what was happening with his dalek which was joining in the boogying on the dancefloor.
update: see here for newspaper coverage !
we went round to our friends andy and gill this evening and met two of their friends who were really great. we laughed ’til our faces were sore which is a great thing.
gill cooked a lovely meal. here is some of it. and my beer.
however much fun kids have with toys, it’s the adults who have the most fun.
here are russell and i having a competition to see who could build the tallest tower with esther’s giant dominos.
sunday lunches are great. today we had 10 round the table and much good food and conversation were consumed.
we saw loads of our friends today which was great. here are a couple of them.
we were invited to our friends craig, isobel, amy and fay (no idea of any of the spellings). a vicar also turned up for a bit (as they do). it was jolly nice.
here is the jelly with teddy biscuits:
