Saturday 19 June 2010

Busy

Sometimes life is crazy busy.  This has been one of those weeks.

Now, don't get me wrong. I don't have a living-life-at-one-hundred-miles-an-hour kind of life.  Generally, I think I'm quite well balanced. I'm busy, but there is me-time, my-husband-and-me-time, me-and-friends time and all kinds of other time built in.

But this week - well.  School has been busy, though not so much more than normal. In spite of reports, sports days and preparation for going away on activities next week.  Oh, and planting up a new part of the garden at school with the help of Floral Guernsey.  I've been out in the garden every single lunchtime, as eager children ask to weed, or water, or harvest... wonderful.

So not too much extra - but Jonny and Cat have come home and Richard has worked late shifts.  So I've seen him briefly in the morning, then not until after 7 or 8.
By which time Cat and Jonny have gone out.  Jonny has been in during the day, but evenings have been full.
So we haven't had any time together as a family this week unless we have all been asleep!

I think that was between midnight and five am.

Sometimes life is crazy busy.

Sunday 13 June 2010

Random doings

Nearly half way through June.  Hmmm.  What have I done?

I've spent a LOT of time watching ducks.  A pair at the back door this morning, asking for food.  They didn't like leftover pastry but gobbled up leftover barbecue rolls.  (Just a little - it's not good to give bread to ducks at all, really, but that was all I had.)

Last week, TWO mama ducks.  With ducklings.  5 and 8 each.  13 all together.


Then there were the rabbits...  they make free of the garden now that Mpira is no longer around to chase them. These two inhabit the back: the tiny one on the front lawn is now almost their size.  A few days ago, one was almost at the back doorstep, along with four visiting mallards.

And this afternoon we saw goldfinches...and a moth crawling along the patio, scurrying like an ant...

I've been watching nature a LOT.

Then there have been more evening beach visits:
Port Grat, our 'local' beach - just a few minutes walk from our house. So beautiful.
And Cat came home from uni...even more so.
Bliss.

(And I haven't even mentioned school...so I won't.)