This is the scene pretty much every morning as Harry eats his breakfast.
Reading the morning paper while eating cornflakes & there is Lily tapping his arm to remind him she is there!
She knows he is a soft touch!
Three good things:
1. Our £60 cheque from United Utilities has arrived. Compensation for having to boil our water for over a month.
2. Jack has sent for some Trip Advisor cards for guests to review if they so wish. I have strict instructions to put one in each room which I have duly done.
3. Sharon our travel counsellor has told me today that she has booked us seats upstairs on the A380 for one leg. I thought immediately we had got upgraded but sadly not! We can pretend as we climb the stairs!
@newbank we have booked our flights to NZ next February Ruth. Your little one will be very excited to go on a proper plane......have a wonderful time if I don't catch you before...plenty of pictures if you have the time!
@happypat yep camera coming with me. Im V torn leaving Sammy behind to join my family in menorca for a week.... Littlest was v excited but is poorly with a virus at present so we're all tired out. NZ exciting! Long flights though.
Sammy will be at school I imagine...oh dear he will be a bit sad! I didn't know you came from Menorca......you will be looking forward to seeing family...enjoy!
@newbank btw you are all very welcome too...I would even get the camp beds out fir you thigh I have vowed not to get them out again! I have a family of four in for two nights, children are six & three, here for a christening & the illuminations.
@happypat I don't. My side of the family planned a family holiday. We don't get all together very often for in June. Stephen and hubby we're going to come. Then just when we were going to book it my sister announced she was having a baby that week! A few months later got rearranged for now. Too soon to take sammy out of school and hubby no hols left so just me and benji. The nearer it gets the more I'm torn between be hood to spend time with my family but leaving spammy for a week seems a huge huge wrench.
@newbank Must be Ruth.....it will be spoiling the holiday for you & of course as it gets nearer the worse it will be. Once you are away it will be fine though.......is Sammy staying somewhere where he will get a bit spoilt...you will have to make a big thing of him doing something special with daddy or grandparents. Even Skype might be a bit dodgy when you are in another country & far away. Let's hope he is feeling a big boy & of course he must have a really special present!
@thistle Well that is the exact reason we have never upgraded Joyce, I would rather spend the money on something more lasting. Would like to try one day though......in the future when we get older! We find the seats fine but then we are quite smallish. Doing shorter legs this time & staying over in transit lounge, Harry's idea.....I would personally rather get it over with although the fourteen hour leg is a killer.
@happypat we leave 5.30am next sat, he is going to london with his grandparents and daddy to go to the science museum and natural history museum by train which he is very excited by. Yes a special present!! He's at home with daddy who won't work away during the week. The last day of the week is an inset day and his best mates mum is going to take him and her out for the day so he will get some treats!
A lovely homely shot A fav btw thank you for your comments Pat so sorry I have not had time to make time for 365 but now I have caught up . JHust going to watch the rugby now
@snowy Yes we are sitting watching.....six weeks of excitement! I have been armature with 365 but we have got other things to do! When we have been doing it as long as we have you can take liberties!
@pamknowler Theybarecsuch good company & they all know which one to sit beside! Lily never sits near me much! She is on Harry's knee now as he watches the rugby.
@happypat We were upgraded by the airline, for free, when we went to NY and it was so comfortable A friend was given a free upgrade going to LA and on the way back she was seated by the toilet door! She said it was her punishment for having such a comfortable flight out:-)
@thistle Oh dear funny.....we can only hope for a brief upgrade but then that would be hard to go back to economy! If there is room in business class woukd be very prudent to move us as we might pick business every time .....fat chance but they don't know that!
Watching the rugby too, Pat! Go England - Fiji are far too rough! Lovely kitchen picture here and your blue seat cushions look so comfy! I've done so many trips in cattle class, I'm reluctant to do any more. Hate being squashed in with other people and told to sleep when I can't!
Great photo! Harry's colours are perfect in your kitchen. ...Hee hee!
Sorry for missing so much recently, but had peculiar bug and really tired....
Hopefully things pick up soon.
A wonderful shot . Love the tap tap on the hand that feeds !! Anomals are so wonderful and crafty -Alfie sits by me at breakfast as he knows I share my toast crusts with him ( no wonder I have no curls in my hair ) But then he snoozes with Gary on the settee when the TV is on !
@busylady Thanks Judith....we have decamped to the sitting room, having trouble with signal on the kitchen TV. We tend to sit in the kitchen in the summer as we don't watch as much TV but our reception is rubbish on certain channels.
@sarah19 I did just think myself that we were quite accidental co ordinated! Sorry you have been off colour Sallie, hope things are looking up. You do too much! Teaching & then you are always busy visiting etc.
@newbank Only just seen this post Ruth.....too much going on! That sounds a fantastic week for Sammy......he will have a ball! There will be a few tears but he won't have time to fret ....daddy's little mate for a week ! Someone has to keep daddy company! You go & enjoy your week, Benjy will so,enjoy being with you for a whole week...I'm a great one for a bit of me time with mum!
@maggiemae Yes it would be good to go the next level up....I did a leg in business once but it was when Max was a baby so didn't get the full effect somehow! One day when we perhaps only go every couple of years, that will happpen as we get older I imagine!
Sorry for missing so much recently, but had peculiar bug and really tired....
Hopefully things pick up soon.