Thursday, 14 August 2025

Picking up the kids

 Flo is due to be in some ballet thing later in the year so has some additional rehearsals over in Tunbridge Wells during the week. Unfortunately they start and finish at difficult times for working parents. 10-4pm It's over in Tunbridge Wells so is an hour round trip as i've got to drop off and pick up Arthur too!  Here's us waiting for Florence to finish



Big battle

 We fought a rather large battle of cultists in the last episode of Vecna.  We retrieved the 4th part of his staff but are about to meet Straad (a vampire) as we attempt to leave the haunted house.  Great.  Looking forward to that.






Tuesday, 12 August 2025

Back to the pub tonight

 Our roleplaying group is back in the pub tonight.  We're in the upstairs function room and it's going to be bloody hot.  I'm going to bring a couple of portable fans.

Legoland on Sunday

 Arthur's been asking to go to Legoland for quite a while now, with the weather been rubbish at the beginning of year and us having a more or less full schedule over the Spring / Summer we finally had a spare day so took the family on Sunday.  What was the verdict?  Pretty good really.  We went on a few rides, saw a show, went to a couple of water parks and made lots of lego.


Panning for gold

Before we got wet

Creepy spiny spider ride

Lego Land

Look at Flo's face

Lego pits

My rocket


Arthur racing his car

Lego Lloyd's

The City of London


Impromptu bbq

 We had an impromptu bbq on Saturday night and I got the fire pit out






Tonbridge Pride

 Tonbridge put on another great Pride event on Saturday afternoon.  It was bloody hot though and I got fairly burnt.







Roast beef

 I cooked a roast beef on Saturday and I think it was probably one of my best.  I'm experimenting with reducing the temperature I take the beef out of the oven at.  The internal meat temperature continues to rise for a short while once out of the oven.




Florence has lost another tooth

 2 or three are wobbly too.  Let's hope they mostly grow back before her birthday in 2 months.




Friday, 8 August 2025

Sleep over

We had a sleep over last night, our friends from school needed a little help so hopefully they can reciprocate later in the year.  Their mum stayed to put them down so I popped to the pub.  Too many cooks and all that...

April has the day off so is looking after one of them today too.



Wednesday, 6 August 2025

Legoland on Sunday

 Arthur has been asking to go to Legoland for ages now.  It's not that we don't want to take him it's just we didn't want to go when the weather was rubbish earlier in the year.  Our weekends get fairly booked up these days so it's also hard to find a free weekend.

Anyway, we're now going on Sunday morning and Arthur will love it.  Having been to Euro Disney a couple of months ago the kids are used to the inevitable long queues.  There's queues jumping available but I think it's not right so won't be doing that.

He's going to Diggerland with April next Friday and i'm taking him to a hotwheels show at the O2 in October.  He's going to love that too!  Lucky boy.