Highlights Of The Week

Last week of the school holidays,how an earth has that passed by so quickly?

The weather has been really good,you can definitely feel a change coming as its not quite so hot more warm and there is a definite breeze about most days,actually it's not a breeze it's wind,yep the wind is coming back and September will soon be with us. 

This week we have been out walking again. Monday we went to find a trail that my dad had told us about. Bit of a misunderstanding occurred,he said the sign was at the train station but I heard police station! Bit different! Well we searched the outside of the police station from top to bottom but we couldn't find the sign. Later that afternoon when my dad and mum popped up for a cuppa it became apparent why we couldn't find the sign,it was at the railway station!Simple misunderstanding,I must clean my ears out properly in the future. 

Tuesday we went to Cresswell,it was beautiful up there and we sat on a bench eating the most drippy ice cream in the world. It went all over my trousers,again and again. Yep it was me not the young one getting messy,no change there then. 

And then Friday we went to find the original trail that I blundered up on Monday. That was a fabulously beautiful walk. Chips walked his little legs off,yet again.

To give Chips something different to do rather than our usual walk,chatter,roam,get lost and then found again,we went to the cinema on Wednesday to watch Despicable Me 2. I absolutely adored it! It made tears stream down my face with giggles. I would recommend it too anyone,it's such a funny film and I truly love Gru! 

Thursday was a much too busy day. We fitted in the library,the hairdressers,the shoe shop,the school trousers shop and Chips swimming lesson. It was busy and had to be planned like a military campaign.

Swimming went well. There were only three children there so they got lots of practice,it was backstroke this week and Chips did great. More often than not he swims straight across the pool without stopping and every single time he does this I'm so proud. I think I will always feel so proud to see him swim.

The boys have embraced the start of the footy season and have managed to find a match to watch every single night. Great. And if it's not footy it's F1 and if it's not F1 it's Motogp and if it's not MotoGp it's tennis,you get the picture,this is a sports obsessed house.

I managed to tame the Jenga like washing pile that has started to live on the dining room chair but blow me down it reappeared that very same night and now it's back to square one! That washing pile is my nemesis...fact.

So thats us and the week that was.

Zip Wire

Our park has recently acquired a zip wire. 

All the kids love it. 

We have never had a go on it before as its always been too crowded and noisy around it and I thought zip wires should be first encountered when there are not so many children jostling frantically for a go. 

Yesterday was such a time.

And it was fab!

At first we were both a bit wary,it went fast and at the bottom there was a definite bump,hold tight and fly in the air moment.

So we approached the zip wire very cautiously and took it step by step

and little by little, and hey presto you did it!

Again and again!

How excited and proud were we....?

Loads!

This is something that will become a firm favourite I feel!

Six Sentence Stories

Josie is encouraging people to get their imaginations working and to come up with a story in just six sentences. It's really good fun. Each week you get a prompt and then it's put on your thinking cap time. This week the prompt was Silence pop over to Six Sentence Stories and see what everybody has come up with. Here is my story,I wonder if anyone will empathise with it!

Silence

"That's enough,be quiet,pleeease don't say one more word for at least one minute" pleaded his exhausted mummy,it had been a long,hectic day and Lucy was whacked.

But as soon as the words were out of her mouth she regretted them.

Yep she had got the most talkative child in the world,a true chatterbox,but didn't he get that from her,Lucy grinned,she knew full well the answer to that question!

And wasn't time running out,September was on its way,soon children would be swapping their brightly coloured summery clothes for the formality of school uniforms,not something Lucy was looking forward to.

Long days without her little friend,it tugged at Lucy's heart just to think about it.

Silence is over rated thought Lucy,she turned to her little boy and smiled gently at him "What did you want to tell me?" she said

The Boys,A River,Happy.

After a busy day,library,hairdressers,shoe shop (yikes,the worst torture ever - shoe shop) we went for Chips weekly swim lesson. He did really well,it was backstroke this week and there were only three children in the class so they worked very hard.

Afterwards we were sat waiting for a lift and I found a river. I know,I know,I'm always finding rivers or maybe the same river drifting through many different parts of our local environment. Anyway here are my quickly snapped photos. A sunny evening,a river and can you see the boys,I can and that in itself makes me smile

 

Adding to my 2 Minute Memories

Splash

Two Shoes Tuesday

Josies prompts this week were scent and stolen and I wrote a right cheery little piece,it was how I felt,need I say more,little Miss Doom and Gloom!

Stolen

Left in a swirl of greyness.

A marshmellowey puff of nowhere land.

Where things carry on as normal but nothing is the same.

The world keeps turning but you are standing still.

Or are you moving,but out of sync with the whole world.

You are stuck.

There is a queasy feel to the day.

And it's easier to hurry bedtime along so that the thoughts stop.

Nothing is stable,nothing feels safe.

Everywhere you turn is confusing.

Nothing and nobody makes any sense.

Empty words.

Actions speaking louder than the words ever could.

Thoughts that tangle round in circles.

And feelings that are beyond hurt.

Peace of mind,stolen

Pop over to Two Shoes Tuesday
and see just what other intriguing ideas and thoughts people 
have come up with.

I Can Feel It

I can feel Autumn creeping in these days,I have felt it for a week or more now. 

The leaves are beginning to drift from the trees. Chips and I have seen them slowly swirling down and falling gently onto the ground. 

And,on the ground as we walk, leaves are beginning to appear,not many yet but Iam noticing them,more and more. 

We have seen conkers growing in trees.and along the sides of the roads,pavements,rivers and fields we have been passing,the grasses and plants are getting so tall and I see some of them starting to turn brown. 

Things are beginning to change and Autumn is on its way. 

The wind is picking up strength. Yesterday while we were out walking the wind was blowing the trees and it felt cooler. Chips said he was cold. I said it wasn't cold but it was cooler,for definite.It wasn't a warm gentle summery breeze,that on a hot sunny day is so welcoming,more like a autumn wind that rustles through the trees and makes you brrrr if you are not wrapped up. I guess it's safe to say that there's a nip in the air.

The colours around me are changing. Some fields are brown now and some are completely golden,a brightly coloured yellow that reminds me so much of Chips hair. It honestly does!

The nights are slowly but surely drawing in and there's is a back to school feel in the air.

I think we have had quite a good summer weather wise. Young Chips has been in shorts all summer long.Not once has he put long trousers on,so it can't have been that bad a summer. Boy isn't he going to feel strange when he crams his legs into those stiff school trousers and I'm going to feel ouch as I look at him in trousers again,fully knowing that the summer has gone.

I feel September is on its way but we still have a week of August left so I'm going to make the most of it and play,play,play with my little gang....while I still have the chance.