Family "glue"

[seeker]

Some of ours..

Saturday night telly (or a film when there's no Dr Who or Predator or I'd Do Anything) with home made pizza.

Pancakes for breakfast on Sundays.

Growing our own potatoes.

General family meeting/debrief on Thursday evening (only night when nobody has an activity) so everyone can talk about anything followed by Uno.

Broadstairs Folk Festival.

Always making all birthday cards.

Daddy gets a lie in on Sundays but needs to be pestered every 15 minutes by someone offering him a cup of tea.

Mummy always cries at everything - baby photos, little socks, I'd Do Anything....and has to be brought tissues.

All particularly brilliant drawings, painting, stories etc are sent immediately to Grandma.

coffee, papers and comics on sat and sunday
all of us in our bed in the mornings with milk/tea
gardening
walks in the park
you've been framed
going to pizza express

No one else? I was hoping for some lovely ideas!

lovely thread!

growing veg, family walks, breakfast in bed, tickling fights on the floor after tea, sharing baths, daily bedtime bible stories and prayer time

its just me and dd, but its 'our family!'

friday is chips evening,

weekends she get to sleep in my bed

we burn cd's and have music chats on a regular basis

we love each other lots, and tell each other all the time

Family shopping outings taking turns to choose which town we go to, Chinese takeaway every Wednesday, Eurovision song contest where we all give points for each song & our winner gets our phone vote.

Visiting grandparents on a Saturday,

having a fry up on a Sunday morning,

walking in the bush

going to the park

pizza for dinner

all climbing in bed in the morning - usually on weekends

morning and afternoon tea together if dad is off work.

easter sunday brunch and christmas eve at my aunt's place for some extended family.

will slowly make some more as the dds get older.

eidsvold, my mother is 87 and left Australia in 1954 but still remembers the smell of the bush as if it was yesterday!

piratecat - of course you are a family - and I LOVE your glue!

We very rarely do anything together. I blame having no weekends free. Don't ever get into a retail business with your partner which is open every day of the week and every holiday, it sucks.

complicated outings by public transport.

playing music together

cooking together

massive display of artwork

Fab thread, Seeker.

Our family glue includes much use of the 'sofa duvet' for snuggling under to watch Harry Hill, Dr Who or Pushing Daisies.

Dress code: pyjamas.
Required snacks: home made popcorn and Shirley Temple cocktails.
Optional cat or dog on lap.

Saturday night movie night (with home made pizza and popcorn)

Pancakes!

Day trips in our campervan (even when it's pissing down outside, we cook bacon butties and play crap card games -including Uno - and feel very cosy)

Music festivals

Singing along to The Levellers on car journeys

Storytime at bedtime - milk, biscuits and we all lie on the bed to read the story

The morning cuddleathon - when the boys sneak in and climb in with us - and the cat comes too!

present-wrapping - whoever the present is for has to skulk downstirs and pretend they don't know what's happening while everyone else wraps the presents and gets sellotape in hair etc.

Waterfights in good weather.

Fire-pit nights - wrapped in blankets, toasting marshmallows and chatting.

oh and we can now add trips on our canal boat to that list...

Oh fullmoon - what sort of canal boat?

I could add lots of stuff about our van and our fire pot and marshmallows - but I didn't want to fill up the thread!

rather weatherbeaten 50-ft narrowboat (currently unheated!)

Seeker - we do seem to have rather a lot of shared stuff...(I nearly cut and pasted your whole list)
I didn't put my allotment down though, as they end up making huge mud lagoons and I end up shouting

We actually live on our boat - but it's a bit bigger than yours! And our van is an unconverted Mazda Bongo.

I would love an allotment, but as I can't even keep on top og our very small garden, I don't think it would be a good idea. That's why we grow potatoes - but nothing elseQ

Awr, this thread is lovely I can't wait to see what our family glue will be.

Have you got one of those fabby dutch barge thingies then? (Don't know technical term, new to this boaty lark)

Sunday morning walks on the beach.
Sittind down to eat together at the table as much as possible.
Sailing in our Drascombe Lugger.
Watching Doctor Who.
Playing Scrabble.

No, ours is called a Humber Keel. It's like a Dutch Barge but ugly. 72ft long and 17 ft wide. If you google, ours isn't one of the glamorous one with sails - she's a motor barge.

Now hang on, this thread was not meant to make me jealous! I SO want a Drascome Lugger!

Now hang on, this thread was not meant to make me jealous! I SO want a Drascome Lugger!

Well, I'm jealous of both of you