Hours of fun with Arwen this morning

 

We spotted a dead slow worm

Really tall plants

In town yesterday

 My new company wants me (all of us) in every Thursday so I begrudgingly went in.  We were given a free lunch and drinks after work so shouldn't complain too much. 

We went to a fancy wine bar called Vagabond.  There's a self service machine here that pours your wine of choice.  Unfortunately the cheapest in this rack was £69 a bottle.  You could just order 25ml samples but they were still £5 plus.  The most expensive was over £200, eek!  I guess if the company is paying for it then what the hell.  But i'd rather get paid more in the first place and get to decide myself what to do with it.  In my case probably wine, but cheaper and more of it.

Monument

Most wanted: Tobridge

 I made this after April showed me the passport photo she'd taken.

11 years ago

 This popped up as an 11 year old memory on April's phone.  I was looking for the photo a month or two but couldn't find it.

It's taken outside Australia House, Australia's embassy in London.  We were at a Western Australia wine tasting event (we used to go every year) and as we were leaving we spotted a bowl where people who were at another event had left their ID tags.  Look who we spotted.  Ha, ha, I'm having that I thought.  Little did I know what would happen to Rolf a few years later.  Oops.

Poor Rich

I booked some hotel rooms for the Tonbridge lads (some of) who are popping down to Eastbourne for the day / night to visit our friend Mark.  The hotel I was recommended had 3 superior rooms and one standard.  Unfortunately someone had to miss out.  Poor Rich.  I promise I didn't roll more than once, but if I rolled a 1 I would have re-rolled...

 

Take me to the chopper

 A couple of helicopters flying over Tonbridge this afternoon during Arwen's walk.

Oops.

 Our GM had a mishap this week and forgot to bring in our characters.  No worries, I told him I had 99 in each stat..  Here's some doodles.

Games night

 We had a games night last night and managed to play a total of 0 games...

Good fun though, we made a couple of pies and fired up the deep fat fryer again to make pineapple and banana fitters. 

Multiple bottles of wine were drunk and most people were in bed by 10.  I class that as a success. 

Passport renewal

Is this my child?  Doesn't look like her.  We've all had to renew our passports this week.  We have a couple of holiday ideas that need up to date passports so we're getting things sorted early.  By all accounts they may not be early enough as there are still significant backlogs with the passport agency.

Here's Flo's picture and I can hardly recognise her.  The clips were put in place to keep her fringe out of the way and as this was about her 90th photo was not best pleased.

Arthur has a passport but not yet his dual nationality Australian one.

There's a potential October half term trip to Greece, and a long overdue trip to visit grandparents in Australia next year.

 

Lunch on Friday

We were invited to an early lunch by one of Florence's school fiends on Friday, they have a lovely big house but it needs a lot of work.  The kids entertain themselves which was great and here's Arthur enjoying his first profiterole.