Wednesday afternoon

 Arthur haircut and Flo beating me at the renovated mini golf in Tonbridge Park

Another hotpot

 Another lamb casserole, this time a lamb hotpot!

Random day off

 I've taken a random day off today, work's been dull (waiting on data), so thought i'd take an extra day off before we have a few days with the family for the remainder of the week.  I took the dog with me whilst dropping the kids off at their last day at a summer club and continued on to Lamberhurst where there's a nice walk I know.  I seem to remember it normally taking a lot longer as I got round there in 1h 10.  Nice walk though, only got stung by nettles a couple of times,

Some hops

Arwen wanting to eat said hops

Beautiful fields

Vineyard

Grapes

We've got the car back!

 Our car has been repaired and looks s good as new.  It only had 20 miles charge left in it though so it's sitting on the drive getting a quick charge before I have to pick up the kids who are at a summer club. 

Manchester fun

 

Chicken waffle for breakfast

Japanese iced beer, not recommended

Azul

Azul winner!

Chicken and chorizo chouder

 I made this for dinner last Thursday, yum!

We made it!

 After dropping the kids and the dog off at my dad's we headed straight to Manchester for the Cure gig.  For a journey that should have taken 2h45, we ended up being in the car for 6h30! There was a closure to one whole junction due to a lorry fire, multiple other collisions and a lorry crossing the central reservation!  FFS!  But we made it with 10sec to spare.

Hmm...

We're supposed to be going camping on Thursday, coming back on Sunday.  We may need to rethink this idea! 

We're off to see the Cure tomorrow

 All the way up in Manchester.  Dropping the kids and dog off at my Dad's then heading up to MAnchester for a couple of nights.

Lamb Casserole

 I made this yesterday.  A delicious lamb casserole.  It turned out pretty well considering I only had a little over an hour to cook it.

Wildlife photographer of the year

 I disturbed a Heron this mornings dog walk and tried to take a photo as it flew away

Character death

 One of our characters died last night.  Oops!  I nearly did too!  It was a fun session though.

Waitrose soup update

 No more chunks, back to thin strands.  I reckon someone was fired over that!

Early birthday present

 We tried out one of my birthday presents early yesterday.  We cooked steak and lobster on a hot rock.  Not bad!

Oops!

 April managed to drop my left over pea and ham soup yesterday.  The dog enjoyed it.

Fat greedy cat

 We accidently fed Josie twice yesterday morning.  Fat greedy cat!

Niche

 Spotted this in the back entrance to our local Waitrose.  A bit niche.

Walk with Arthur

 I took the dog out with Arthur on Friday morning, we ended up walking round the lake.

Early birthday present

 One of my birthday presents arrived early this week so we tried it out on Sunday.  It's basically a big chunk of stone that you heat up in the oven then cook the food on it at the table in front of everyone.  Pretty cook.  We did surf and turf.  Steak followed by lobster.

Solar Eclipse is Kent

 We popped out after dinner last night to see if we could see the eclipse. We didn't have our own glasses but the trick with the colander worked well.  Later on we bumped into a friend who had a pair so had a shot with them.  Very strange!

Can't make it out with my phone

The colander trick with Flo

And with Arthur

Back at the pub

 We were back at the pub last night, playing fantasy roleplay basics again.  With one thing or another I haven't played it for weeks and weeks, either it was too hot, I had other plans or the GM was off.  I only missed 1 session though.  We didn't really do much, met a fairy, killed some weird beasts, you know, the usual.

Levelling up is a bit quicker than in d&d 5.5, as I dwarf fighter all I did was roll a d8 and add it to my hit points. Luckily I rolled an 8!

AI PAw Patrol Judge Dread

Travellers

 We have some new additions to our playing pitches this morning.  Overnight some travellers decided to break a gate and set up camp.  Apparently, they'll be gone by Friday. 

Head shot

 I popped to the club on Saturday to watch a development team team play against Tunbridge Wells.  They were also doing headshots for social media so I had mine done too.

Disco boots

 I spotted these gold boots in a charity shop a couple of years ago and thought Flo might like them.  They were too big for her but they now nearly fit.  Today is Tonbridge Pride and Flo is dressing up so dried them on.  We realised that they both have USB ports! WTF!  We plugged them in to charge    

Charging

Flash dance

Now to leave them charging!

Hight update

No i've not grown.  The kids have though.  It's been 6 months since the last measure and they've both grown 3 cm.  Both still above average.  Interesting fact:  Arthur is 5cm taller than Flo at the same age!

24

 I tried to watch a couple of films on Kris' Plex but the quality of them wasn't that great.  I watched an episode of John Oliver's show instead.  It was about surveillance.  It got me thinking.  Maybe I should watch 24 again.  So I did, i'm 5 episodes in from the start again.  I've probably watched it 3 or 4 times now.

I wonder why this place shut down

 I bet they weren't expecting that type of clientele. 

Last night's session

 We played another one shot with the d&d cartoon character from the 80s last night.  It was a lot of fun.

I bought this for the kids.

And now it lives in my office

Arthur made this at forest school

 Not sure what it's supposed to be (something about a turtle), Arthur's left it out to dry in the sun.  Looks more like something Arwen produced.

I think this is the coolest place in the house

 Stupid dog

Sneaky morning dog walk

 I took Arwen out for a sneaky dog walk whilst it wasn't too hot.  She managed to find another baseball.

Wow. Chicken in a chicken soup

 I quite like Waitrose's chicken and vegetable soup for lunch when working from home.  There's occasionally a tiny strand of chicken in a spoon full when eating it.  I bought some more yesterday and cooked some for m lunch and there is actually large pieces of chicken breast in there.  Either i've been very unlucky over the past 5 years i've been buying it or they've listened to customer feedback and have actually started to add proper bits of chicken.

Fruit trying

 Our local food market (corner shop) has a strange mix of fruit available to buy.

Although Arthur still refuses to eat fruit (don't ask), on Saturday we had some kumquats, lycees and a mangosteen.  I've never had a mangosteen before.  Not bad.