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Word of the Week 31 – 13th Birthday

July 31, 2020 by Anne Sweet 5 Comments

Hello and welcome to the home of Word of the Week. A nice and simple weekly linky, with everyone welcome to pop by and share. The idea of the linky is to reflect back on your past week and share it with us. It’s great if you can sum it up in a word or phrase, hence giving us your Word of the Week. My word this week is ‘13th Birthday’ and you can read more about that below.

I’m not totally strict on using just a word or phrase. But please try to stick to the theme of summing up your week.There are not too many rules with this linky, just remember to read at least another couple of posts in the link up after adding your link. I will read and comment on all posts and tweet them out for you. I also have a Pinterest board devoted to Word of the Week and I will add posts to Mi x Please add the badge below to your post so that others may find us and join in. If you comment or tweet then please use the hashtag #WotW

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MY WORD OF THE WEEK – 13th Birthday

This week Boo celebrated her 13th birthday, she is now officially a teenager.

She had a friend around for lunch. We were hoping it would be a picnic but the weather was pretty dismal. They still had a lovely time though. Boo seemed happy enough.

I bought her a laptop for her birthday. It was more than I would normally spend on a birthday, but I’d just received the refund for her school France trip. And it was her 13th, which is a special birthday to have without being able to go out or have a party. She also had a t-shirt which was from the US. We teased her all day for flexing her merch. (I have no idea why it was such a big deal but the other kids found it hilarious!) Do you think I would have been flexing my merch. when I wore my Fonz t-shirt back in 1978 when I was 13? 😀

I made her a cake. She didn’t want anything special, just a blue cake, I bought her some gold number candles to go on top, and Star decorated it with some sprinkles.

My Little Boo is growing up and I’m sure she’s going to make a lovely young lady. The teen years will hopefully pass without too much trouble.

On Thursday we went to Cosford Air Force Museum. This had been planned for Graham’s birthday back in February half term. When I was too sick to go I said it’s okay we can go next half term. Then we ended up in Lockdown. So we went yesterday and had a lovely day. It was bit of a rocky start as our new teenager decided to throw a strop because she didn’t want to go. It turned out that she had the best day out of everyone, she was asking her Dad so many questions about the planes, which in turn made his day real special too. I got to see how unfit my kids have become. I’m used to Star sitting down all the time, but it was sad to see the other two getting worn out too. Thankfully, it was a beautiful day and we spent a lot of time sitting outside in the sunshine.

Hopefully, I’ll be writing soon to let you know what a great day we had.

Now it’s over to you, what word or phrase sums up your week this week?

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Word of the Week 30 Gardening

July 24, 2020 by Anne Sweet 8 Comments

Hello and welcome to the home of Word of the Week. A nice and simple weekly linky, with everyone welcome to pop by and share. The idea of the linky is to reflect back on your past week and share it with us. It’s great if you can sum it up in a word or phrase, hence giving us your Word of the Week. My word this week is ‘gardening’ and you can read more about that below.

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MY WORD OF THE WEEK – Gardening

gardening, written over the background of a pretty flower.

It’s the first week of the school holidays! Usually we’d all be excited but the kids have been home for 4 months now so it’s not exciting at all. We are looking forward to going back to school in September, those six weeks holiday which always felt so long, suddenly seem like a short wait until normality returns.

Graham has been very busy gardening, both front and back gardens. He’s worked really hard and they are looking much nicer. We can even walk down our side path to our back gate now thanks to him cutting back the hedge which had really overgrown.

I have tried to get a new net for the trampoline without success, but now we are going to try and fix the one we have. Well, Graham is, but I may be able to help if I can get up the garden in my wheelchair.

I’ve also tried again to get the missing part for the garden furniture. I bought a lovely lounge set back in May, but we haven’t been able to put together the settee thanks to a missing part. We could have sent the whole lot back but Graham committed the crime of not checking all the pieces before he started putting it together and had made the two chairs and the table before he realised we were missing a major part. The chairs and table are nice though, hopefully we will have the settee soon.

We looked into getting the patio area extended, but gave up when we realised how much it would cost. We could try second hand slabs, but I think we will just cope for now.

I may buy Graham some paint for the shed to brighten it up a bit. That’s his place where he goes to play his music and smoke his cigarettes. The rest of us keep out (mostly because it stinks of fags) but even though we don’t go inside, we can still make it look nice on the outside.

Next week we should have been going on holiday, but this summer will be spent mostly in our garden, so we are trying to make it as nice as possible. Hence the need for all the gardening…now I wonder what plants I can add?

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Word of the Week 28 – Sullen

July 10, 2020 by Anne Sweet 5 Comments

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MY WORD OF THE WEEK – Sullen

photograph of a sullen looking statue with a grim look on her face and her elbows resting on her knees with her hands on her chin. She also holds a bunch of flowers.

Is it the weather? Has it just non stopped rained for what seems like forever? Where did the sunshine go? I think everyone in our house has taken on a sullen mood. See that statue in the photo above…yes, we all feel just like that.

Rain, rain go away!

Maybe if the sun came back out to play we would feel better? The girls have been moody and argumentative. No school work has been done all week. They’ve been refusing to shower or go to bed at a reasonable time.

The eldest two have also been moody, stomping about and spending more time in their bedrooms than anywhere else. Coming out only to eat and complain about my cooking.

Graham hasn’t been too bad, he was grumpy that the Little Man was taking over his PS4 at the beginning of the week, but now he has it back so he’s okay. The Little Man is happy so long as he can play Roblox or Minecraft. He has been doing school work under protest, and even had a haircut off his Dad.

I Want my Happy Family Back!

Last week we were having fun together and enjoying each other’s company. But even I’ve been intolerable it seems, everyone is avoiding me anyway. Please come back sunshine, and bring some light back to my family.

I hope your week has been better, please cheer me up!

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Word of the Week 27, Family Time

July 3, 2020 by Anne Sweet 8 Comments

Hello and welcome to the home of Word of the Week. A nice and simple weekly linky, with everyone welcome to pop by and share. The idea of the linky is to reflect back on your past week and share it with us. It’s great if you can sum it up in a word or phrase, hence giving us your Word of the Week. My word this week is ‘Family Time’ and you can read more about that below.

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MY WORD OF THE WEEK – Family Time

The week started okay, the weather had changed again and we were stuck indoors. The kids don’t mind, indoors or outdoors they are fine.

Tuesday was my eldest daughter’s birthday. Our first birthday during this epidemic. We would normally celebrate with a meal out, we went to Teppanyaki last year which was amazing. But this year we stayed home. We ordered take out and had the most delicious Indian curry. We also had cake and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. I think she enjoyed her day and she had some nice presents too.

I’ve had a couple of days this week when my health has been really poor, but I don’t want to dwell on that. It’s swings and roundabout, good times and bad. But mostly good. And we have been getting on so well together lately which is always a bonus when you are a family of seven stuck under one roof.

We’ve been having a lot of fun playing Jackbox.tv a family game which we can all join in with our tablets and phones. There are different games to play and involve drawing, answering questions and voting on t-shirt designs to name a few. It’s a lot of silly fun and it doesn’t matter what your skill level is.

We also decided to watch ‘Floor is Lava’ on Netflix. Oh we will never get that hour back! It was good for a laugh as it was so cringy, but I don’t think we’ll be watching it again…once is enough.

Now it’s over to you, what word or phrase sums up your week this week?

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Word of The Week 25 – Stormy

June 19, 2020 by Anne Sweet 6 Comments

I’m not totally strict on using just a word or phrase. But please try to stick to the theme of summing up your week.There are not too many rules with this linky, just remember to read at least another couple of posts in the link up after adding your link. I will read and comment on all posts and tweet them out for you. I also have a Pinterest board devoted to Word of the Week and I will add posts to Mix Please add the badge below to your post so that others may find us and join in. If you comment or tweet then please use the hashtag #WotW

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MY WORD OF THE WEEK – Stormy

Wow, we’ve had some fabulous stormy weather this week! Have you?

Monday was nice, it was warm and sunny and we went out. Yes, you heard that right, we left the house for the first time since early March! Not all of us, it was too much for Star who couldn’t face going out. And Boo decided to stay with her (she’s just lazy and couldn’t be bothered to get dressed!) But me, Graham and The Little Man decided to go and see my brother so we could give him his birthday cards and presents.

We arranged to meet in the car park The Little Man got to walk my brother’s dog on the grassland. It was kind of weird going out after so long. I’m glad we only encountered family.

But Monday was the last nice day we have had because it’s been rather wet and miserable since then. We have had some amazing storms. I do love thunder and lightening, providing I’m safe at home. I love watching the rain pelting down and seeing the angry black clouds flash bolts of lightening. The rumbling thunder that follows it, so loud you can feel it. The only thing I don’t like is the pressure before the storm, I always get a headache.

Now it’s Thursday and I’ve witnessed at least three storms this week with another one during the night. We’ve had so much rain the water butt should be full, but Graham has just informed me that the drain has come loose again. At least we shouldn’t get any more texts from our water company asking us to be careful with our usage. It’s done nothing but rain since the last one.

When I was little my Mum would turn off the television and open the front and back doors when there was a storm. She said it was the only way to stop the house being struck by lightening, and believed it. I would turn off our computer during a storm because we were connected by the telephone wire and if the pole was struck then who knows what damage it could do. What the chances were, I don’t know, I guess I still held a little superstition/fear from my Mum’s actions.

Have you had any good storms this week? Do they bother you?

Now, it’s over to you, what word or phrase sums up your week this week?

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