Goodness me

It crosses my mind that it is 5 years exactly, to the day, that we first came and looked at The Sidings and then, that afternoon, put an offer in to buy it.  Five years!! How did that happen?  I have to say, hand on heart, that it doesn't seem anything like that amount of time.  You would easily convince me that it was a couple of years, but five?!?!?!?!?!?!

Perhaps we ought to wake up, get organised and kick on with some of the things that we intended to do with the house when we first moved in.

On the other hand - the house pretty much works.  Might wait a bit and get a round tuit later :-)  And let The Builder carry on with the gardens and the allotment for the time being

In the meantime, on Saturday afternoon Tabitha and I took Cally for her first trip to the Sainsbury's in which her mother usually works. It all went well, until we got to the checkout area.  She dozed and gazed and beguiled the other shoppers quite happily.  Obviously remembers the sounds of the supermarket from before birth.  And just as obviously has learned from her mother not to like the checkout area! She was positively furious, until we took her away from the scanners and the tills.

She's two weeks old today.  Had her first visit from the health visitor and seems now to be thriving.  As are Tabitha, Gareth and Ross, apparently.

We had a lovely and quiet Sunday pottering around and not doing anything very much.  And I have now worked the last of my three Saturdays in a row.  Looking forward to NOT working next Saturday!  Actually, I couldn't work even if I wanted to.  We're going to Salisbury next weekend to celebrate The Builder's mother's 85th birthday.  Am looking forward to that too.

Oh - and our clocks went forward yesterday morning.  Australia's clocks don't go back until next Sunday, so the time differences are unsettled this week :-)