Catch up!

Wow, managed to get back into this blog! Time for an update I guess. That is if anyone happens to be looking at this page! Jessica just started a job in Lancaster two weeks ago. Erika is at University in Derby still finishing up for the year. Eliot and Simon have been doing some GCSE exams and still have a few weeks of this school year left. Wayne had his gall bladder removed 8 weeks ago and is still recovering.

Blog resurrection day before Google deletes them!

Hot & Cold

The plumber is here right now. Our shower has been going hot and cold for sometime now. Peter is a retired plumber who is out of retirement. I trust his diagnostic skills, he says it has something to do with the thermostat on the combi-boiler, or it could be the low pressure from the town water, or it could be our thermostatic shower has 'packed up'.

He's off to order some washers and he'll be back next week.

School Trip

Eliot & Simon went off this morning on a school trip in the mountains. If the weather clears then tomorrow their whole class will climb Snowdon. But it's not looking too optimistic. I'm sure they'll have a great time. The house does seem quiet without them. They'll be gone until Thursday evening.

Hope we can keep that one little hamster alive until they get back!

Death

Well, when we came home from a party at church last night one of the new hamsters had died. Because they look identical we don't know if it was Ping or Pong who died. Either way it's sad. Eliot was very sad.

Eliot with Apples at Girgis House

 

yep, it's me again

Ok, so the daily or even monthly thing is still a problem! But let's stick to today. It's sunny out with a crisp fall temperature. The wind has been blowing all night. Life is pretty calm in the Platt household. Let's see, since I last wrote, Richie, our hamster died. Very sad, as we had only had him since last Christmas. But with a short week of mourning we now have TWO small Russian hamsters named Ping & Pong. They are very fast. I think that Eliot has managed to hold one of them in his hand briefly but they still are very cautious.

Rhiannon has been in Africa for 5 weeks now and we are expecting her to arrive home tomorrow morning. So on today's to-do list is to clean out her car, dust her flat and buy some milk for that all important cup of tea that she has when she returns.

It's Friday and Wayne and I usually go out to lunch but this morning we sat talking for over an hour before we started 'work' so we are cancelling the lunch out today.

I guess a lot has happenned. I've joined facebook, I've started a blog for parents of TCKs, we've resigned our membership at Emmanuel Church, and we're continnuing to attend Antioch Church.

I hope I can get some people to read these, then it will motivate me to write more!