ELEVENSES HERE *****************************************************************************************

[MaryAnnSingleton]

think we've been deleted,so shall we put ourselves here in other subjects ?
Sleepless night fretting about T and loos and lunches at big school - how neurotic am I ?!

mine too! We went to Jersey with my sister and my best friend. And it was lovely.

ours was just our families and my great aunts and uncle,grandma,a few cousins and my 3 closest friends and ex who was the photographer...was very modest but lovely setting and fantastic wedding car !
2 of my friends have had tiny weddings ( coincidentally both at the same place) just them and 2 witnesses

Hello

Hi Celia! I don't have a dc going there(yet!) but it's good to hear that it's not as scary as it sounds.

I think it is a man thing. I constantly have to remind dh to ring certain friends(particularly those whose dcs are dh's god-children). However, when we do meet up with people, dh is way more confident and sociable than me. If we go to a party or something, he'll have spoken to everyone in the room and will know all about them, whereas I tend to gravitate to the least threatening people there I hate big groups, and I can see B is quite like me!

Our wedding was probably mid-size. About 60 people I think, up in Lincolnshire. We mainly had friends there, as neither of us have huge families, and it was lovely. We were married in a little country church across the fields from my parent's old house and I could hear the church bells ringing for me as I was standing in the living room We had a ceilidh at a lovely old higgledy piggledy hotel and I didn't want it to end!

Right, off to watch Strictly, videoed from earlier!

aww, sounds lovely hotcross... what did you guys wear for yours ?

are you enjoying Strictly hotcross ? I love it so much...
We've just had some lovely Greek baked fish and followed it with baked apples made by me and T -yum.
Watched X Factor too but it's shockingly boring.
Am sooo envious, my friend P has just got a new puppy today...really,really want a dog

Happy Sunday Hope you've all had a lovely day? Imagine a whole weekend of sun

We've been sweeping up leaves and tidying up the garden a bit today. Then we went to a sculpture exhibition at a school near us which was fab! I would love to fill my house and garden with original artwork, but some of the prices were a bit scary! We've had gammon and cauliflower cheese for dinner, with some yummy homemade lemon cake for pudding. Yum

Your Greek fish sounded nice MAS. Is it easy to make? I'm really uninspired when it comes to cooking fish.

What did we wear at our Wedding? Um, really quite traditional, although neither outfit was exactly 'right'. I fell in love with a hugely expensive, sophisticated wedding dress. It was utterly gorgeous, but I just couldn't bring myself to ask Mum and Dad to pay such a huge amount. Sooooo, we found a very pretty, very simple, country girl type dress in a sale, which was lovely, but not quite what I'd set my heart on IYSWIM. I do regret it a bit, when I look at the photos, but nevermind.

We went with my future MIL to look for a suit for dh and we nearly came to blows He ended up buying a beige suit, which I hated but she loved... Story of my life tbh, she is obsessed with beige and sludgy greeny brown colours!!!

And yes, I am addicted to Strictly and watch ITT avidly too. I really like Christine and feel very sorry for Andrew Castle - he dances just like my dh - so I have a soft spot for him! I am resisting X-Factor or dh will leave me!!!

Dh made this spider, so I thought I would try out a new name for halloween...

What do you think??

Argh, picture has not come up, will try after Frost

that's fab hippi !!
I bet you looked lovely in your dress hotcross !
I liked my outfit but think I'd certainly wear something different now (it was unusual, silky palazzo trousers with a sheer top and a jacket in same fabric - found it in smart shop with my friend and my mum -) I suppose kind of 20s-30s style..I bought some high heeled gold mules from Hobbs to go with it. Dh and I chose his suit in Liberty - blue silk and wool and I bought him a Liberty print tie, he bought me some gold heart earrings from there...
The fish was really simply baked with garlic and little tomatoes and olive oil and you can stick in some mint or oregano sprigs. Today we went to buy a new nut feeder for the birds and some bulbs - crocuses and hyacinths. Fab weather wasn't it ?
I do like Christine on Strictly too- she seems lovely.

Wow, you both looked very glam at your weddings

I wore a pale blue dress. Did not want white or cream seeing as I was 6 months pregnant with O at the time (no not shotgun wedding, we had been together 8 years already )
Dh wore a navy blue suit with a tie which was the same colour as my dress.
We actually had a lovely wedding planned at a small castle / hotel in Hampshire. Then I found out I would have a 3 week old baby in tow if we went ahead with that. And also once we knew I was pregnant we thought we better be careful money wise as I was to give up work.
Hence the lovely trip to Jersey and then we put a huge gazebo up in the garden the week after we came back and had a wedding reception for all the family. It was definately wedding-on-a-budget but that for me was part of the charm

Had a lovely weekend. Yesterday dh and O knocked down the brick fireplace in the dining room. That took some doing!! It had concrete and steel re-inforcements running behind it
There is still a bit to remove to get Old Betty to fit, but the worst bit is done. The dust and grit was unbelievable though, we dusted and hoovered afterwards but I think we will find grit under all the furniture for the next few months!!

your wedding sounds lovely and romantic hippi -and personal.
How exciting that Betty wil soon be installed !
T has gone off to school carting all his PE kit plus ingredients for fruit crumble - am a little anxious as to what state the crumble and his bag will return home in

Fantastic news about imminent Betty installation! Did you know that the fireplace wasn't holding up anyhting important(like the upstairs bedroom!) before you started. Did you get someone in to look at it? Your wedding sounds lovely btw

I wasn't the least bit glam at my wedding. I looked really young and innocent, but very happy The whole day was quite informal and a bit quirky in places (particularly when the Reader in church forgot the name I'm known by and called me by my Sunday name, and guests were thinking 'who?')

Yum for the fruit crumble - fingers crossed it comes home in one piece!

I'm off to the dr in a mo. I've still got some pain from the whiplash and just want him to check me over incase I need some physio or something. Then I'm off to a friends for coffee this afternoon. B has tennis after school, so I don't pick up til 4:30, then off to music. Mad Monday again!

Have a lovely day everyone!

oh I wasn't glam at all - the car was wonderfully stylish and that was one of my favourite parts of the wedding...it was a Citroen Traction Avant - so French ,so cool !
Hope all goes well at the doctor's hotcross...

Hope all goes well at the doctors hotcross.

No, fireplace was not holding anything up - that is what the chimneybreast is for and that is still intact
Dh reckons the fireplace was bought pre-made, hence the steel re-inforcements so it can be transported without breaking.
The date on the back was 1978, so not even a nice twenties item. Glad it is going

Just come back from a lovely Phoenix cards / coffee and cake morning at a friend's house. I decided to cycle there
I have spent too much but we have so many birthdays coming up in the next 3 months...

Right, better go and get the laundry hung up and get some other jobs done

how was it at doctors hotcross ?
T has come back from school with a perfect looking crumble, intact and upright..we're just heating it up to do the evaluation ! I have no custard, but never mind. He also got a merit sticker and a smiley face from singing teacher today

Oh, well done T

How was the crumble MAS? Well done T for the singing!

I'm sitting here waiting for my car to come back from the accident repair place. Then I have to drive the hire car to the hire place and they'll bring me home. I wonder if my car will feel different to drive??? Hope it gets sorted out this morning - am supposed to be meeting a PTA mum to discuss the merits of tea towels v bags Very exciting!

B is off to a friend's to play then Rainbows...Will be glad to sit down tonight I think!

Hope you're OK? Am missing the bright sunny days we had at the weekend

crumbled was lovely, especially the topping !
You didn't tell us about the doctor !
Talking of which, I have just taken my friend S to have an xray on her ankle - she injured it attempting the quickstep with her dd - too much Strictly I think ! Anyway she now has to go to the fracture clinic in case there's a chipped bone,poor thing

Oops! Have to have physio... Just need to check the insurance will cover it, NHS could be months to wait.

Poor S - maybe she should sue Bruce Forsyth

! poor thing. Fingers crossed that the insurance covers the physio xxx

Hello. It's so wet and dreary here - assume you have the same? And so dark inside

I'm off for coffee with a friend of a friend in a minute. Bit strange really - I don't know her very well, but dh shares god-parenting duties with her She seems nice, hope we have enough things in common to make conversation easy....

I am starting helping in B's class next Tuesday. I'd offered with the other jobshare teacher and been turned down, but thought I'd persist as B is desperate for me to help in class, not just in the library. Have offered my filing/laminating skills!

Hope you're OK and the week is going well. Has O been having a better week, Hippi? Hope the others in the class grow up a bit...

Would you like to set a date for meeting up again sometime? Perhaps coffee somewhere nice????

it's gloomy here too,hate it ! Just been to take P's little S to school..having a cup of coffee now then will nip out.
Let's meet up soon,that'd be lovely !! Would Farnham be ok for you guys ? lots of places to have coffee and cake I think

Morning

Wet and gloomy here too! Sorry to hear you need physio hotcross, hope you can get it soon. How was the car when you got it back?

Meetup in Farnham should be ok. I am very nervous about driving places I don't know, so will need to dig up some confidence. I don't even drive to Guildford... and got hopelessly lost on the way to Alice Holt.
So as long as it the place we meet in Farnham is somewhere easy to find, with lots of parking, then I'll be fine.

T's apple crumble sounds lovely, I can't wait for O to start bringing dishes home...
My friend K and I went to have a look at the nearest secondary school last week at their open evening. It is the one I invigilate at. We both really liked it. The children who showed us around were enthusiastic about the school (one boy said 'I love it here' when I asked him) and even though the school has 1500 pupils, as we walked round the teachers were forever greeting the pupils - they seem to know them all! Was very impressed. Have not visited the one further away yet - may do that one next year with O.
But I don't really see the point in driving O to a good school 10 minutes drive away when there is an equally good one 10 minutes walk away
'Tis funny, we still have a year to decide, and already it is all the Y5 mums are talking about.....

I think we vaguely started thinking of secondary schools in yr 5, though didn't seriously think about it or visit any until yr 6...the nearer one where you invigilate sounds great and makes sense to avoid travelling further if it does seem good and the children there are positive and happy. You'll know the right one when you see it I'm sure
Farnham is good for parking (big car park next to Waitrose)
I must admit that I always like to know where I'm going and get anxious if anywhere unfamiliar...for that reason I never venture to Guildford or further into Surrey,I'm much better in the other direction ! I would imagine that you'd turn off the roundabout that you leave for Alice Holt and carry on round back into Farnham..
Was the repaired car all ok hotcross - not too nervous-making driving it again I hope

Secondary Schools - eek

Farnham sounds fine to me. Hippi, if you're apprehensive, I'd be happy to meet in Guildford and travel together? I'm better at directions than driving great distances

I had a really lovely time this morning. The girl I was meeting for coffee is so sweet, really really nice, and we had lots in common to talk about. Hopefully we can do it again, and she has a dd only a year older than B, so we'll be able to arrange a play I hope. We met at 10:30 and didn't leave til nearly 1 o'clock!