Well after my little moan (it was a big moan actually about how I felt about the site in general but I deleted it, they aren't going to give us our own warm and comfy's back) I came back a couple of times last night and I was still signed in....BUGGER, was thinking I would have to eat humble pie this morning. I was almost relieved when I came to the site this morning and had to sign in again LOL
Sunday we got up around 7.30am and literally all lazed around in our jim jams. Tony on his laptop, me on my desktop and Sean & Lara on their netbooks, four of us in the lounge on computers!!!! Jack was in his bedroom on his desktop (he doesn't like laptops). Tony did what is becoming a tradition, of cooking us sausage sarnies.....OMG they are sooooooo good....glad catering college wasn't entirely wasted on my hubby who went on to become a specialist holographic/foil printer! I was dressed before the sarnie was cooked this week and left off the ketchup after my white bathrobe incident the week before! The kids always laugh as I often drop food down my front......they chime in with "it wouldn't be dinner without Mum dropping some" cheeky buggers, but true 
Tony made the stupid mistake of going into Lara's bedroom.......that was him lost for hours and she only has the little boxroom. He came down with mouldy half eaten sarnies from school lunches and other things that looked like science experiments gone wrong ..... my stomach churned! She is the messiest child EVER, she looks for clothes and is exactly like the stereotypical woman of throwing clothes everywhere looking for what she wants, except she doesn't bloody pick it all back up again and when nagged to tidy her room, she crams them into small hidey holes etc!!!!!
Got to early afternoon and we went out to buy some stepping stones for the garden, now that I have a traditional washing line that goes the length of my garden instead of my rotary, I won't be able to use it on better days during winter because of the soggy grass and if its frosty it seems to kill the grass if you keep walking on it. Found some I liked in Wickes, longish thin natural sandstone that came in subtle colour changes. Figuring we only had a little garden Tony picked up 3 and we went inside. Checked out the halogen light section as one has gone in the boys room and there on the shelf were packs of 4 eyeball directional lights in white and brushed steel including a transformer for .....drum roll please....£2.50, whilst the ordinary chrome ones were £19.99. We looked and laughed and said it must be a mistake, it was cheaper to buy this entire set than buy a bulb!!!!! So I persuaded him to put one of each on the trolley and I would ask at the checkout first. Yes indeed they were £2.50, so Tony went and grabbed another two packs, it was a great price just for the transformers alone. We left feeling quite pleased with ourselves.
Home and Tony went to lay the stepping stones, I think he forgets I am only 4ft 11" because the distance he left between the stepping stones would be like doing a long jump from a standing position (whilst holding washing) and as we all know, my balance is pretty much guaranteed to worsen over the years.....hmmmm is he trying to bump me off, better check and see if he's upped my life insurance first LOL. He agree's we need a couple more stepping stones and will get them in the week! I get on with ironing the school uniform and then we take the dogs for an afternoon stroll over the common, Ollie was tormenting Dexter and obviously needed to let off steam.
Now another moan (OMG once I start I can't stop 
) the common is what it says "common land" and locals have the right to graze horses on it. I am fine with that (scared of them but fine) they are tethered and I have taken quite a few snaps of them over the years. This time we went, there were FOURTEEN horses on what's a fairly small piece of land. I should add that it "appeared" that all the horses were owned by the same family, as they were there topping up the water buckets and checking on them all. It mean't we couldn't really let the dogs run free....I am not entirely satisfied that Ollie wouldn't run up to them (as soon as he see's them, he becomes very alert and stares at them whilst on the lead). Worst thing was, they had scattered the horses all over the common, so all that was left was one tiny corner! Still we managed to exercise the dogs for a bit and came home within 30mins a bit miffed.
Now it was time to start my roast dinner, freerange chicken in the oven I decided to prep the veggies. Found the butternut squash, leeks, parnsips, chantaney carrots and broccoli but where were the ruddy potato's??? I called out to Tony "where'd you put the tats?", "we didn't buy any" came the reply......BLOODY HELL, something else to blame on Buttercup! How could we have a roast without potato's? Grab the phone and call my sister who lives in the same street as me, "Sharon, you got any spare Maris Pipers?", "yes thanks, you got a spare loo roll?", "yep, wanna swap?", "yeah why not".....so I send Sean round with said loo roll and he comes back with some tatties for us. See the Multicolour Swap Shop is alive and going strong in Essex still. We'd watched Saturday Morning Kitchen with James Martin and I decided to give Vichey Carrots a go. I have to say considering the shambles before dinner got going, not a drop was left on any place.....quite pleased with myself too. We didn't eat dessert as we were all stuffed (literally as I used a box of my Stovetop stuffing mix my friend in Florida sent over).
Kids did some homework and had baths ready for the X-Factor result show, how, tell me how the Twit Twins got through first???Fix, I am thinking so! Anyway......both the Essexites got through and I am a happy woman cos ... HOUSE is on. Finishes my Sunday evening just nicely.
Thought for today:
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
W.C.Fields
