Bank Holidays & Birthdays

Again its been some time since I last tapped the keyboard but in all fairness its been really busy :)

Now on bank holiday Monday our little close had a BBQ. Now picture all of the neighbours, 10 households in total, putting up 3 gazebos, getting the bbq out and then spending the afternoon chatting in the sunshine playing games and generally getting to know each other. It was fantastic! What a superb afternoon! It really promoted a real sense of community spirit which in our fast paced world where most people do not know who their neighbours names let alone spend time with them a welcome it really was and it was agreed that we will do it again a few times next year.

My oldest daughter has now turned 13 years old!!!!!!!!! Will she turn into a Kevina??? Will she spend most of her time sulking in her room??? Will her speech turn into a series of grunts and shrugs??? Well if it does then there wont be much of a change as shes been like that for the last couple of years LOL. Of course she is happy, smiling and coherent when she wants a Dads Taxi run doing! The pleasures of parenthood eh.

Now to celebrate this passing of age wifey talked me into throwing a party in the garden complete with bouncy castle and lots of food. Well lets start with the castle. My sisters boyfriend conviniently runs a bouncy castle business so for a discounted price he popped around on the Saturday morning with the castle and blew it up......now you know when you go to fun fairs or fun days and you see the bloody great big huge castles complete with turrets and roofs which you have to pay a pound for 30 secounds of jumping around....it was bigger!!! LMAO this thing was 20ft wide by 17ft long and was held down by big metal stakes :) To say the kids enjoyed it would be an understatement. It took up most of the garden and I thanked wifey for having the forethought to put the dog into kennels for the weekend as she would have had kittens with that up and would have been desperate to get on and play!

I spent a happy 10 hours in the kitchen cooking as the party was split into two with my daughters friends coming from 2pm until 6pm and then our families turning up from all over the country... now even though the day went off without a hitch I wouldnt want to do it again! I have for the last few years just booked somewhere and let them take the stress of the party and now I remember why ;)

The job hunt is well underway and I have to admit to feeling really low at the moment. I dont do scratching around finding something to do very well and have been struggling to fill my time. Of course the weather had been crap of late so even the allotment has been out of the question but at least the last couple of days have been dry so some time and work has been done.

Well time for a bath so enough drivel for today :)