What a beautiful morning

 Bloody cold though!

Pitches look fine for Sunday

Finally going to be a speccy foureyes

My last eye exam was a couple of years ago but I received a reminder to get them checked again last week.  My eyes are fine but do struggle very close up.  I got tested again today and have to go back next week for a second test as they found some scarring and need me to get my eyes dilated so they can look a bit closer.

Anyway, i've now bought a pair of expensive reading glasses.

Arwen's new haircut

 £50!  I think we'll wait to the spring before her next one.

Bruises

 Only played 40 mins but still got a fair few bruises from Saturday's game.

Only played 40 mins but still got a fair few bruises from Saturday's game.

Clip and climb

 Flo had her 7th birthday party on Sunday and she asked to go clip and climb.  Great fun.

Arthur joined in too!

Flo's first rugby festival

I was stuck with the u6s so April took Flo to her first rugby tournament on Sunday.  She has another one next weekend.

2nd game of the season on Saturday

 I played a half for TJs on Saturday.  We won, just.  I'm still feeling sore now but was a good laugh.

18,000 steps before work

 Didn't go to the gym this morning as still feeling sore from Saturday's game so took Arwen for a very long walk.  Got a bit wet at stages during the walk but good fun getting out and about.  

Today's walk

 

Pitch inspection

Beautiful tree

What a view

We scared a few pheasants this morning, here's me trying to flush a few more out.

Cthulhu in the city

Idiot

Apparently Arthur went all the way to school with a conker in his helmet.

Weekly pitch inspection

Mushrooms

More mushrooms!

Still flooded at the bottom but the pitches are fine.

 

The school's getting ready for Halloween

 One of the school's vegetable patches.

D&D one shot

 I regular DM is off to comicon this year and is down to run a one shot adventure.  We tried it out last night and think it went well.

Go to bed!

 I started watching the new deadpool last night and Flo walked into the front room to say goodnight.  Luckily I managed to get her to stare straight at me and turn back around as this was on the screen at the time.  Phew!

Fire!

 This is me in the evenings now until March.

I am wearing shorts!

Good job i've been in the gym...

 Our boiler lost pressure for some reason this morning so I had to go up into the loft to re-pressurise it.  April's using our big ladder downstairs to decorate the hallway so it was out of action.  I had to use the step ladder and then boost myself up to get into the loft.  Getting up there was easy enough.  Getting down was a little more precarious though!

Deep frying weekend

 Every so often I get the deep fat fryer out.  When I do I think it's important to make sure we reuse it as much as we can so fry everything in the house.  This week I made a chicken pot pie (with extra bits that I had lying around) with chips.  I also made fruit fritters and chicken nuggets.

Chopping prep

Chicken stock in a can...

Sauce

Test chip

4 pies for us and the kids

Chrispy crinkly cut chips

Hmm... Pie!

Fritter surprise.  Some of them are deep fried brie

Pizza time

I prepped a pizza making station for the kids for when they got home from school on Friday, but then April had an emergency work call so took ages getting home with them.  I ended up making them myself.  Not bad.

 

A bit wet this morning

 But should be fine for Sunday