Weekly Round Up

After having a lovely family celebration weekend for James birthday,it was back to the grindstone on Monday, first on the list - house hunting.  Not a good start with James being poorly.

Monday
Mike worked in the morning, and with the  older two at school, I spent most of the day out in the garden sat on the blanket with James cuddled into me.  When Mike got home we did manage to pop into the Letting Agency and make a few appointments for Tuesday.

Tuesday

Boiling hot, great day to spend driving around looking at houses  Was OK really, James seemed to enjoy it, and was fascinated with a house that had a cupboard under the stairs like Harry Potter.

Wednesday

James not feeling too good at all, so not much going on.  In the evening someone from a few streets away (I say streets, but they are very small pathways and a few streets away is probably only about 100 yards) to ask me if I had a black cat, I said yes I have two that are black  He then told me that he had a dead black cat outside his house. To cut a long story short, it wasn't any of my cats, thank goodness, but we did bring the deceased cat back for Mike to bury.  Mike was a work and knew nothing about this of course, but I decided to keep it a day or two in case anyone needed to identify it.

Thursday

Straight to the Doctors with James, he has an ear infection, they didn't mess around and gave him anti-biotics.
Put a notice in the Pet Shop window about the cat.

Friday

James was feeling a lot better so we decided to go to watch Danny and Becky at their school sports day at the local Athletics Track.

Danny's Year's events were scheduled for the morning.  First event for him - Discus

First place for him, smashing the school record by throwing 25m (record 19m)

Then Shot

First Place

In the afternoon Becky's Year arrived.

Becky had a bad experience in a 100m sprint not so long ago, so she was very nervous about racing in the 200m, an event that I always thought she would be good at, more so than the 100m.  She had been practising at school, but this was her first ever 200m race.

Not a very good photo, I was videoing (and cheering) at the same time.

She got 3rd place, which was brilliant.

Her next even Long Jump

She did extremely well and got 2nd place

Other good news - which she found at last week, she got one of the lead parts in the Play she auditioned for.  She will play Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest.  Very proud.

Saturday

Mike working.  James still a bit under the weather, so we just ventured out into the Town to soak in the Jubilee atmosphere, stopping for tea, with scones and a cucumber sandwich (donation for this to go to charity) at our local deli.

Sunday

Mike off this morning, we all worked hard and cleared out the loft, and the kids bedrooms.  Rubbish bags galore.

Not sure what we will be doing tomorrow with regards to the Jubilee, it will depend on how James is feeling, and Becky, as she seems to be coming down with something, and also the weather, as at the moment it is absolutely bucketing down out there and blowing a hooley.

Happy Jubilee