Flexible working

 I had my request for flexible working turned down this morning.  I want to drop the days in the week in the office down from 3 to 1.  I am livid.

Christmas concerts

 We had two Christmas concerts at school yesterday, one for all children in years 3 and up, and the second one for kids that do extra music lessons or are in a choir.  There was an hour gap in between (not sure why) and it over ran by 35 mins.  So we didn't get back till 7:45.  I was 50 mins late for my d&d session.

Arthur had to sit through it, beginning

at the end

Another present

 Squishy d20.

It came with a free plastic duck

New Bauble

My new Metallica bauble arrived yesterday and looks great on the tree in the front room.

Not quite so idilic

 Yesterday's dog walk didn't go quite to plan.  It was sunny when I left the house and I had my sunglasses on.  It absolutely hammered it down 15 mins into the 1h walk.  Urgh.

Chicken pot pie

I made chicken pot pie for 10 on Sunday. 

Dog tired

 Arwen on the sofa last night.  Shattered!

Cold but fun

 It was cold yesterday morning but the kids had a lot of fun.

Another win

 TJs 3s played Gravesend on Saturday and we got another win.  My minis coach friend Ben played his first game in nearly 20 years!  He did only make 10 mins though!

Productive

 Given the cold weather we decided to bring my chilli plant indoors,  It's probably the most productive plant that i've ever had.

Friday was productive

 WE took Arthur's old bed apart (and sold it on Facebook) and made his new cabin style bed in one day.  What was most impressive was the fact we didn't argue whilst doing it!  Athur loves his bed.  So does Flo.  They made a den underneath.

Where my blood has gone

 My blood popped over to Bristol last week then ended up down in Portsmouth.  It was in Bristol to get tested then went to Portsmouth Hospital to help people out.  That was donation 69.  Ooh er misses.

Trees go down

 Next door plus one had a couple of trees pollarded yesterday so there was a couple of guys up the trees at the back of the house with chainsaws

Trees go up

 I popped out to get a couple of Christmas trees yesterday.  They need a little trimming and straightening up but I think they're good ones.  We're going to decorated them tonight when the kids get back from school.  And by decorate I mean get attacked by a tinsel shotgun.

I had to go to 3 places in the end.  The usual one we go to was shut, the second didn't have 8ft trees, in the end I went to one that we passed driving to Rye last weekend.  Near disaster though, the trees nearly came off the roof when I was driving home.  One of the bungies had slipped and one of the trees started listing over the edge.  A chap in his white van pulled alongside me on the duel carriageway and let me know.  Eek.

Penultimate Cthulhu session

 Our GM reckons we only have one session left to finish our Call of Cthulhu session.  I thought i'd use my Cthulhu dice bag.

Weight Loss

 My weight is still continuing to drop, each month i'm getting lighter.  December might be an issue, but am sure i'll be fine.  Last December I had one of my biggest weight loss months, 4.9.kg, but that was more me being ill over Christmas (17th Dec - 8th Jan).  I'd rather not have one of those episodes again, but i'd be super slim!

Today's walk

7.22km walk 

Favour

 One of the other families at school was going to be late coming back from an event last night so called to see if I could pick his kids up from school.  It's hard work with 4 but we all survived.

Yesterday's lunchtime walk with the hound

 I did 25,575 steps yesterday.  Not bad.

It's race time

 Arthur enjoys playing with his Hot Wheels, here's his long track that we can stick to the patio windows

Longest dog in the world

 The animals assuming their positions whilst we eat our Sunday lunch.  Technically Arwen is in her bed, or at least that's what she claims.

Anniversary night away

We were originally supposed to head away a couple of weeks ago but due to a couple of reasons, one of which me having a home rugby game to play we, eventually had a night away in Rye.  We stayed above a cafe very close to a fish and chips shop we used last year with a couple of other families.  April found the venue and it was perfect.  We've now been married for 14 years.  Here's some stats about what has happened since...

• We've moved house
• We now have 2 kids
• We've lost 2 cats but have a new one
• We now have a dog
• We've each moved companies several times (job wise)

First stop was a winery that had only just opened.  Luckily it had a Devil 4000 to warm us up

Some wine, that April bored me talking about, my only concern was that it came in a 500ml bottle.  Pretty sure we paid for a full 750..

We also did a tasting, which I think was for free

We had a lovely meal at the Union.  We were both surprised with the meal being almost £100 less than we thought it would be.  That's despite April ordering a £70 bottle of wine.

 

Saturday lunch

 I made roast pork before we headed off to our anniversary.  It turned out well.

Beers a-go-go

 Nigel Owen dinner at the rugby club, good value, you can tell he's done the talk before.  Funny though.  a couple of points where he may have miss read the room but very funny and I had a very good ime with the lads.

Pub crawl

 We only ended up going to 5 pubs in the end, but had quite a few in each!  I feel fine this morning but am a little tired.