Tuesday 26 August 2008

Nelly gets her comeuppance............

as some of you may know - Nelly can have a tendency to be on the aggressive side...the pinching seems to have stopped but she still can be known to bop / slap her friends on the head when they do something she is not keen on....Last week our friend Claire came over with Lola - they were in china with us last year....Nelly was happily running around with Lola's big brother Freddy (aged 9) and pushed Lola around a little - just for being in her house / garden etc! Bank Holiday Monday at one of the local village ' Fayres' ( note not fete...!! ) she ran around with her friend Jack ( 2 in October ) and then just pushed him over followed by a slap on the head....

Today I was at an all day meeting when my phone rang- call from the nursery...immediate Alarm Bells started ringing in my head - apparently Rob had picked up Nelly bu they had forgotten to get him to sign the accident form as she had been bitten on the finger by another boy..! When I got home she repeated at least 15 times during dinner, colouring and bath time that ' little boy bite my finger Mummy ' ....I reinforced that it was not kind, a bit like hitting or pinching... ' ! Maybe the penny will drop.....

Saturday 23 August 2008

Hector Zaza and Kiki have landed ...

KIKI, ZAZA and Hector ( left to right!)
Cickens in their Eglu
Nelly and the Eglu!

They have been named as above - I realised when i asked people in my village that I am seriously older then most of them as when I mentioned the names I was met with blank looks - bit like asking a 2 year old these days if they like the Magic roundabout! Anyway as I will be the one to let them in and out and pribably clean them I named them! They are fab...Nelly loves a little walk to the back of the garden to see them and feed them bits and pieces...apparently according to my sister who now has chickens too - they love cabbage! Watch out chicks we are not keen in this house so when the veg box arrives you will be in for a treat!

Thursday 21 August 2008

CALL FOR VOTES..............

so what shall we call them - we are collecting the chickens tomorrow...Purple Eglu and three chickens....So we need your votes if you are still reading!

Rob favours -

1. Scrambled, Fried and Boiled

He also likes -

2.Tikka, Korma and Masala

I personally like -

3. Hector ZaZa and Kiki ( if anyone here remembers Hectors House ...! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_tVxvnEJko )

Add a comment or email us to let us know - ...Results to be published on Sunday evening...

Monday 18 August 2008

living the country life...without a car

I don't but I have a friend coming over with her little girl , she lives in a town in Oxfordshire - about 40 minutes away in the car -she does not drive. We live spitting distance away from Oxfordshire and I could collect her from one of our nearest towns...She looked into it and guess what One bus from Witney to Banbury on a thursday and two on a Saturday! No good when I have her coming over on a Wednesday ! And in thsi world of getting us out of cars and onto public transport I would never see anybody !

Friday 15 August 2008

Sunny Bomo...

Despite the weather forecast telling us it was going to pour with rain for the whole week - we had one day of gales and rain and since then glorious sunshine...I think the Meteorological Office are manning a bid to kill off tourism in the UK....the beach is quiet when the sunshines and I guess the businesses are quiet too....! Nelly has realaffinity with the sea and the beach - she adores it. YEsterday she was running and jumping in the waves...making sand castles with James ( 8 ) while Gabs and I sipped Pimms....! WHat a perfect day! But she came from the sea...the orphanage at Dianbai was so close to the beach ,but I'm guessing she did not get there often in the first 11 months of her life! Maybe it is the sound and the smells...and we live in the most landlocked part of the UK!!! poor little sea baby - oh well ...more visits to friends by the sea -of which we have many!

Monday 11 August 2008

also the Hens they are a coming!

the hens are coning in two weeks time! hurrah !

tomorrow Nelly and I are off for a wet few days in Bournemouth! we are off on the train again - to stay with the Gabs, Jonny James and Ziggy .....! hurrah a UK beach holiday - I read in the paper yesterday that 9 out of 10 UK childen have never been to a UK beach ! Nelly not doing badly so far ! Bournemouth at least three times, St Ives and various Cornish and North Devon beaches. .. and Anglesey ...rock on British holidays...

Friday 1 August 2008

sleeping better, new toys in the house , getting the garden designed...

I am feeling better Nelly is sleeping better - although I now have to sit with her and rock her as they do at nursery! well hopefully this will only be a passing phase.....here's hoping - she still wakes in the night and wants to come into our bed, so am very loathe to take the sides off the cot and convert into bed!


Rob has a brand new toy in the house - A Geneva sound system - looks like one speaker on a stand but does a whole lot more - Ipod, CD , plugs into the projector we bought and we can now watch films on our perfect white walls at 71 inches wide without having to have a nasty plasma in the drawing room!...I approved...

Last Monday our good friend Lesley came over to look at our garden - we rented a house from her and Stephen in oxfordshire in 1995 and have been friends ever since - she is a garden designer and they now live by the sea in Swanage but all her work is in Oxfordshire so we asked her to come and see our garden , I trust her enormously and Rob will trust what she does so I am really looking forward to a amnageable garden with some style... What I really need is trees and hedging which I want to get done in the autumn ...

We had a houseful this weekend = hungarian cousins were over and came for lunch on saturday and our great friends kate and Frank popped in !!! from Cornwall ! I had been moaning about the fact that nobody around here ever pops in and they called on Saturday afternoon to say they were taking their brother to Bristol airport and would come over - so they arrived at about 9 00 Nelly woke at 11 30 to total surprise that Kate was here...we had a lovely Sunday, breakfast and papers, pub lunch, walk through the cornfields and football in the garden...




KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE !!!!

Rob's new Toy....
Nelly with Itsa and Kata


Nelly and Gergei...