Half days at work ROCK.
I've changed my hours at work so I work an extra hour on Tuesday & Thursday and leave at 2pm on Fridays but since Richard's been away, I've reverted to normal hours and I took half a day off today.
I left work and went home to pack which take very long. Then I sat on the sofa ando did NOTHING. Being a lazy lazy comes naturally to me, I have to give myself a slap round the face to make myself get off my fat arse to do stuff.
Edwin finished school at 3.15, so I collected him and we headed straight to sunny Staffordshire to my parents house. I should explain that my parents live next to a scout camp on the edge of Cannock Chase, just round the corner from Castle Ring. It's also spitting distance from Cannock (funnily enough) home of Stan Collymore and apparently the dogging capital of Britain
I would describe my parents as middle class baby boomer eco warrier Christan hippies (without the drugs). They live in carbon neutral house with a massive garden with chickens, bees, half a rowing boat on their pond (don't ask) and a vegetable patch the size of my own garden. You can be looking out of the kitchen window and see rabbits and deer amble across the lawn, (well, the deer amble, the rabbits sort of bounce) while woodpeckers feed from the birdtable.
As amazing as all this to a small boy if I'm honest, the best thing about a visit to Grandpa John and Grandma's house is the HOT TUB*
It was a late night for Edwin as he slept for an hour on the way down, so after a dinner of homemade chips (yes, potatoes from the garden) and salad (yes, from the garden) ** it was hot tub time.
I really couldn't be arsed was to get in, so it was down to Grandpa John to supervise!
* it's heated by a wood burner and being incredibly eco minded, they only heat it up once per month. Normally this coincides with a visit by grandchildren.
** as a child, we had set meals for each day of the week. Friday was always chips & salad night. (I'll do a blog post on this at some point, remind me). 25 years on and my parent still have virtually the same plan
I've changed my hours at work so I work an extra hour on Tuesday & Thursday and leave at 2pm on Fridays but since Richard's been away, I've reverted to normal hours and I took half a day off today.
I left work and went home to pack which take very long. Then I sat on the sofa ando did NOTHING. Being a lazy lazy comes naturally to me, I have to give myself a slap round the face to make myself get off my fat arse to do stuff.
Edwin finished school at 3.15, so I collected him and we headed straight to sunny Staffordshire to my parents house. I should explain that my parents live next to a scout camp on the edge of Cannock Chase, just round the corner from Castle Ring. It's also spitting distance from Cannock (funnily enough) home of Stan Collymore and apparently the dogging capital of Britain
I would describe my parents as middle class baby boomer eco warrier Christan hippies (without the drugs). They live in carbon neutral house with a massive garden with chickens, bees, half a rowing boat on their pond (don't ask) and a vegetable patch the size of my own garden. You can be looking out of the kitchen window and see rabbits and deer amble across the lawn, (well, the deer amble, the rabbits sort of bounce) while woodpeckers feed from the birdtable.
As amazing as all this to a small boy if I'm honest, the best thing about a visit to Grandpa John and Grandma's house is the HOT TUB*
It was a late night for Edwin as he slept for an hour on the way down, so after a dinner of homemade chips (yes, potatoes from the garden) and salad (yes, from the garden) ** it was hot tub time.
I really couldn't be arsed was to get in, so it was down to Grandpa John to supervise!
* it's heated by a wood burner and being incredibly eco minded, they only heat it up once per month. Normally this coincides with a visit by grandchildren.
** as a child, we had set meals for each day of the week. Friday was always chips & salad night. (I'll do a blog post on this at some point, remind me). 25 years on and my parent still have virtually the same plan
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