Monthly Archives: April 2014

Bea came and sat on me whilst on the sofa. Once she had managed to get one leg each side and onto my chest she leant forward as if to speak and kissed me.
She then lent back. Looked me square in the eye and said, “Uv you Daddy”.

These actions disable a man.

Down to the bottom of the garden….through the gate….into the woods and across the field we found….

Apparently we had to crouch down and whisper to the Lambs

A bit of cuddling in the woods with Daddy

And of course some stream paddling!!

Bea loves a bit of kitchen action. After Mummy made an emergency dash to the village shop for some butter we cracked on and made a mess… Sorry… Biscuits!!!

Whilst rummaging for something to add to the mix we discovered some red food colouring, which clearly needed to be added at some point, so we split the dough in half and mixed in some little Twix balls (never seen these before – Mummy found them!) And dropped a few splashes of red colour into one ball.

Rather than roll them out neatly we took to making little balls and whacking them down into biscuit type ish shapes!

Then, given we had a bucket load of the Twix balls left, we poked a few into the top of each biscuit. Daddy had to operate on a couple of the resulting biscuits as an over eager Bea had pushed the chocolate balls through to the sheet underneath.

Anyway, after a nice bake in a medium oven with lots of checking by Bea throughout, we put them on a rack to cool.

After completing some other chores we rewarded ourselves with one of the red ones that had gone brown by the time it had finished baking.

Apparently they are yummy.
We MIGHT get another one after tea.

So Vic’s Birthday was in erm December….yes it’s taken this long!!!! Between Vic’s rowing schedule and our jam packed weekends we couldn’t get a weekend day together SO we ended up making Friday our Brighton Girls Day Out….plus Bea (not in the original plan). But of course our girl LOVED every minute of the girls day out and in all honestly I don’t think Vic would have wanted it any other way.

First adventure on a Bus!!! We often collect Ollie from the Bus after school so Bea is very familiar with them but never travelled on one. She was VERY excited by the prospect. So we did Park and Ride today!

Enjoying….with a caution:)

We hit the shops in the centre which Bea loved (she does love a shop) and then wandered down to Hove for lunch in the lovely “i gigi”….and again she does LOVE a lunch out!

And what lunch is complete without a little hot chocolate to start!

Mummy and Bea (and Mummy and Vicky’s stunning PLATTER of food!)

And then of course it was time for CAKE!!! The array of cake in this place is overwhelming, us gals deliberated for sometime which was perhaps a delay tactic due to our very full post lunch tummies!

Mummy and Vic could not decide so shared a Lemon & Poppy Seed and an Orange & Thyme (amazing!!) and Bea…..”Chococake” (it was in fact chocolate and mascarpone).

Chocolate “cheese” (quite literally!)

Finished!!!!!!!!

Our lovely day was finished by a stroll back along the sea front. Bea opted for a lift from her “friend Vicky” 🙂

Homeward bound. Tired but still loving the bus trip!

A bit of back tracking. Last Friday Bea and Ollie were on an ice-cream promise for the the end of term and of course some Park action! And then Charlie hot footed (well peddled) it over after school to join us! How everyone’s demeanour changes once school is finished for a fortnight…..even Mummy’s! And Bea just lapping up everyone’s good mood!

Since, we’ve had lots of fun over the weekend: Bea went swimming with Daddy and Ollie, a fab afternoon with The Stranges on Sunday (Bea thinks Livy is her sister!), a very chilled day at Grammie’s with the boys. Her best day yet at Nursery School (she played with a new friend, painted, played with blue play dough, sang and had double helpings of lunch and didn’t insist we “go home NOW Mummy” when I collected her). We had a fab afternoon at the Park….who’d have thought you could kill an hour in a small Village Park you go to several times a week!?

Today Ollie was at a Sports Day all day, Charlie was flying so Mummy and Bea (after much deliberation by Mummy) decided spending money was not necessary and we decided to go on our first picnic of the year!!

Ready for action Mummy!!

My 35minute walk took us 2hrs today with a picnic and Bea on foot!

Insistent she carried the picnic blanket…..

…..and then had a lift!

Loving the flowers and the bird noises: “What’s that one Mummy!?”

Lunchtime!! Absolutely beautiful spot (even if I do say to myself). We had a gorgeous picnic!!

A little swinging action always necessary!

And Mummy had heard a rumour the Easter Bunny often frequented the next field….

FOUND IT!!!

Homeward bound!

A truly lovely way to spend a beautiful day.