I love putting up tents!

Leah went to Brownies yester-evening. Emma and my good self collected her. There were lots of small girls in brown standing in a very large circle around a small collection of tents. They had been constructing the tents. I presume this was to develop their survival skills should they ever find themselves alone in a faraway forest and just happen to have a tent on them. Or it may have been more of a confidence-building exercise.

Either way, this prompted Emma and Leah to set up camp in the garden last night…..

 

 

 

Erecting the tent went well. It was of the pop up variety. The airbed was inflacted in seconds with one of Emma’s many gadgets. Watching Leah put on the double duvet-cover was highly entertaining. Emma rescued her in the end. They did indeed sleep in said tent all night long. A variety of cats came and went at leisure. As you can see a good time was had by all. I think Leah is proud of herself. I think she jolly well should be. Well done.

xxxx

I stayed at Emma and Elaine’s house…

After a lovely birthday meal for granny, I stayed at Emma and Elaine’s house. In the morning (after a very good night’s sleep) we got the acrylic paints out and a spare canvas and I set to work. I wore Elaine’s jama’s because my mum wouldn’t have been too impressed if I got paint all over my lovely puffball dress. I drew on paper first to get the creativity going. I didn’t want to ruin the canvas. It all went fairly smoothly and I like the result. What do you think?

A pair of butt heads at Grandma’s birthday tea :-)

It was all good fun!

Pica

Leah’s doing her pica. It’s pretty good. She has to type sentences using the right fingers for each letter. There are five lessons each week and one test to send off. The full course lasts four months and finishes with one final test. She’ll then get a certificate. Sometimes she gets a bit bored with it but, bless her, she does it anyway.

The other night me, Leah, Jeanette and Ian nipped out to the painted lady. We had the two meals for six quid deal. I had rare steak. It was lovely. Leah’s friend Grace was there with her family. Grace sat with Leah for a while and they acted daft. As you can see.

Piggymobile moneybox

Leah made this at Brownies yesterday. It’s cool. The snout unscrews to pour out the dosh! She says: 

“We got a milk carton. We cut the handle off and then we wrapped it in wrapping paper. We stuck the eyes on. We did the legs out of orange pipe cleaner. We stuck them on with white glue. We stuck the ears on top last. Once we had wrapped it up before we had stuck the eyes on, the leaders cut the hole in the top for us.”

hello poooooooooooooooooolie

Hope you reading this plip

How’s you been? You coming home to your house opposite our house on Thursday, I can’t wait to see you, gonna pick you up and spin ya round til one of us is sick :)  Then I gonna pick your mum up and give her a big kiss and maybe even pick your dad up.

Things have been quiet here without you, Laine has missed you as well and is really looking forward to seeing you. 

I have been feeding the birds in your garden so hopefully they will all still be there when you get back, I remembered to put the christmas tree away (just).

I bet you’ve had a fantastic time and are all Australian looking, do you have an accent now?  

Will see you you very soon my lovely lovely :) 

20 day without pooles

The Pooles have been away for 20 days now.  I am missing my little Plip hugs and the big cheesy grin Net always gives me when she see’s me.  I miss the random reasons Ian and I find to use the trailer to break things or cut them down.  But I’m holding myself together they’ll be back soon and I’m sure they are having a fab holiday

I have been to their house to make sure it still standing, I have eaten most of the minstrels that were left out on the bed.  I haven’t used their phone to ring random people and haven’t turned the water back on and had lots of showers.  I also haven’t had a party and made a mess of the place.  Laine hasn’t eaten the turkish delight either.

I am looking forward to them coming back, but am glad they are having such a nice long holiday.

Leah love you lots and hope you gonna have lots to tell us when you get back.  Big hugs and stuff

 Em x x x x x

Happy New Year to the Pooles

It wasn’t the same without you

Hope you are having fun, playing nice, enjoying the weather, that kind of thing.

Big hugs Leah xxx

australia

Leah has gone to australia for 5 weeks.  She left on boxing day and after a long time on the plane got there safe and sound :)  Leah’s mum text us yesterday afternoon to say happy new year cos they seemed to have new year before us, we were in B and Q at the time. I will be going and making sure Leah’s house is okay in a bit and opening the curtains we shut last night!  Happy holidays Leah!

xxx Em

Happy Birthday to Leah!

To celebrate Leah’s birth 9 years ago, we had the function room at the farmhouse last night and ate, drank and made merry! It’s all set up as Santa’s grotto at the moment so it was all glittery and sparkly and snowy. Sue and Baz, Emma’s lovely parents, bought Leah this keyboard which was a BIG hit. She was playing with it again before school this morning. That made everyone in her house really happy.

Bob and Enid, Ian’s mum and dad, bought a fantastic cake decorated with a High School Musical 2 photograph/logo type thingy. Leah loves High School Musical (It is good!) so she loved the cake :). Ian looks huge next to Leah. In real life he isn’t so triangular. He was cutting the picture off the cake for the birthday girl.

Close up of said cake and said picture in said girls hands!

Leah thought the cake was very tasty! I think she had had too much to drink because she came over all affectionate. Wait. No. That was me! Anyway she did give her mum a nice big hug. Aaaaw.

Rather a lot of alcohol for a 9 year olds’ party don’t you think? We had vouchers - a free bottle for every two meals. I think Leah had a good time. I asked her what she thought of being 9. I love her face while she was thinging about it.

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