Scrapbook Blog

17/07/2024

How is this little girl about to finish year 6? A few more days of fun, activities, leavers services and tears to get through and then secondary school is round the corner!

15/07/2024

A brief flit to Norfolk to celebrate with ...just one month to go till 'I do' 👰💒💖

06/06/2024

E L E V E N ✌️
Athena had had a brilliant birthday today, a waterpark & exploring sand dunes - as well as basically a week of celebrations (well actually a month - as we gave her a main present of a new Fender acoustic a month ago today so she could use it in her lessons).
Still amazes me that she's off to secondary school in about 12 weeks, she reached the top of the waiting list for our top choice school this week and we gave her the option to accept it if she wanted to but she is adamant that the school she was awarded (2nd choice) is where she wants to go - even though she doesnt know a soul going there and half her current cohort are going to the other school! She knows her mind and she's not afraid to be out of her comfort zone 🥰🤩

29/04/2024

Bluebells 🌱 A little jaunt through the woods this evening with the biggest one and Sam whilst Arlo was at Cubs. There are still so many bluebells about! Hoping the nicer weather sticks around as twilight stroll in the woods is a lovely way to wind down of an evening 🩵💙🩵💙

14/04/2024

I have this thing with windows...
A selection of lovely and very old windows at Arundel Castle. We spent the day there exploring on Easter Saturday. Will try and remember to share some more photos at some point as the castle really is beautiful. It's ten minutes away and we'd never been inside before, just around the gardens.

12/04/2024

Arlo loves a bit of crazy golf so we booked a game at GloBalls as part of his bday celebrations. Eye wateringly bright but lots of fun. We did the Zootopia course (I believe, it was a couple of weeks ago!) but there were 3 or 4 to choose from.

31/03/2024

N I N E 🎉💙🤸‍♂️🧁🩵
Celebrating a Birthday and Easter Sunday all in one day (when the clocks go forward🙈) is all fun and games! We spent the day at Arundel Castle yesterday and took one of Arlo's friends with us too - so we're all doubly exhausted today,with another day of celebrations tomorrow!

28/03/2024

Swinging into a long weekend (and a clock change, and Arlo's birthday) and couldn't be happier about it!

10/03/2024

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24/01/2024

Forty. Blood hell!
Had a thoroughly lovely birthday (no work, no school runs, brunch with Sam and SIX new house plants 🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴)

09/01/2024

I quite like having a little stroll through Chichester on my lunch break - working opposite the cathedral is lovely too. Just a shame my break is only half an hour 🤭
I think we're more or less in the swing of things post-christmas now, I'm working further from home and my lovely friend has started a new role too so between us (and Sam, and my friends dad!) we're juggling the school runs/work and everything else!
I do realise this is a very dull post but I barely use Instagram these days, and I actually love reading other people's normal every day goings on 🤷

17/11/2023

Eleven years...not ten as I wrote in Sam's card. Oops 🙈

20/10/2023

What a week 😩
Glad it's over & now we have a week away with friends AND we're off to a wedding too! Tres exciting 🥳

14/09/2023

Two little helpers at the allotment tonight 🌞🌻

27/08/2023

A lovely day with le sprogs yesterday. They've both grown about an inch since I saw them a week ago 🤣
We saw a Zebra... Ish.

26/04/2023

Almost a month ago Arlo turned 8! I'm clearly not as hot on sharing things as I used to be but thought it probably deserved a grid post for posterity! The kids and I spent a very fun evening in a fancy hotel doing facemasks and going swimming, then headed to for the Harry Potter tour the next day with some friends from school 🪄🧙‍♂️✨

18/01/2023

A bit of graffiti mimicking from a few weeks ago.
Getting back into the swing of things with the big old work/school/extra curriculars juggle and struggling if I'm being honest.

For seven years I've worked from home apart from the odd day at a clients office. So now I'm working 4 days a week at the new job I'm finding it hard to get all the housey things done and really appreciating how good I had it till now! I'm working at home (on freelance clients) on Wednesdays and some evenings so at least today I got to empty the dishwasher and stick a load of laundry on 🫧

I really am loving being in an office environment though, even if it means hanging loads of washing on the airer at gone 10pm 🤦

I am also hating trying to work out what take to work for lunch too 🙄

17/12/2022

The Christmas holidays are upon us 🙌
Starting with lunch with friends then a dusk canal boat trip with friends from their old school to find the man in red 🎅🤶
Sam's off on his third(!!!) Christmas night out so me and the little sprogs are catching up on last week's strictly and planning a baking day for tomorrow... We're going to watch the Cbeebies panto (apparently they're not too old ☺️) and The Amazing Maurice whilst eating home made mince pies 🤤

12/12/2022

by buying unsafe electricals online... like me!
A very important campaign and petition from charity Electrical Safety First

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10/12/2022

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PANTO TIME! This week we saw Jack & The Beanstalk at Worthing's Pavilion Theatre.
As usual it was a gloriously cheesy, sparkly and entertaining night - and we're all feeling thoroughly festive now! There's an amazing animatronic giant, a bad guy, local fave Dave Benson-Phillips and my fave Katie Pritchard as Jack & other recognisable faces too!
Katie is just SO good as any character she plays in the Panto, and has an amazing singing voice to boot! Plenty of sing-alongs, lots of "it's behind you"s and more panto fun.
You can catch it till Jan 2nd, with more info at Worthing Theatres and Museum 🙌

29/11/2022

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22/11/2022

⭐ We're counting down the days to Golden Week! ⭐

During the first week of panto (Thursday 1st - Thursday 8th December), ALL tickets are between £10 and £18!

They're selling quickly, so make sure to book today to avoid disappointment: https://wtm.uk/events/jack-and-the-beanstalk-the-pantomime/

17/11/2022

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14/11/2022

Despite loving board games as a family, we're still very enthusiastic about computer games too, and are firm believers of 'everything in moderation'. Sam and the kids are more enthusiastic about video games than I am, but even I can be persuaded to join in when someone needs an opponent or help with achieving a mission! What I love about video games is despite ultimately playing for fun and amusment they're also teaching your kids some valuable skills, patience and perseverance being two key ones!...

Despite loving board games as a family, we’re still very enthusiastic about computer games too, and are firm believers of ‘everything in moderation’.  Sam and the kids are more enthusiastic about video games than I am, but even I can be persuaded to join in when someone needs an opponent or h...

13/11/2022

Athena & Arlo marched with their scout group today in the Remembrance Day parade, with Athena as the flag bearer. Im so proud of them for doing this, and we've had a few conversations this week about conflict and war, what life was like for the soldiers who were fighting for freedom, and for the civilians living through war too. Arlo is keen to find out more but I'm also concious that he's only 7 and I don't want to overload him. Any child friendly films about war you'd reccomend?

Included last year's photo, and some of the march too ❤️

08/11/2022

Very excited to see this! Can't beat modern Shakespeare

01/11/2022

It's almost Panto time.... Oh no it isnt! Oh yes it is! 🫣

23/10/2022

Double busy bees! 🐝🐝 and
swipe for the tiniest little spider 🕷️ you've ever seen... I wasn't even afraid of it it's that cute and miniscule. Also more flowers 🌷🌸🌺🌼🏵️

In other news I'm definitely middle aged now I think 🙈 I was oohing and aahing all round RHS Wisley last weekend. Until last spring I'd never even kept a house plant alive longer a month.

21/10/2022

Roll on half term!
We celebrated half term-eve (that's definitely not going to catch on) with Hocus Pocus 2 under blankets on the sofa. Verdict: not as great as the original 🤷🏼‍♀️ 🧙🏻‍♀️

Our other half term plans include 2 sleepovers for Athena and one for Arlo (and none at our house 🙌) as well as a cinema trip, and time with friends. We're also jealous of Sam who's having a long weekend in Scotland this weekend to see his dad 😁

Happy half term to YOU if you're just starting it 💫

20/10/2022

Well who knew? 🎃