This morning I was awoken by Jean being lowered onto me being told to hug mummy!
She then proceeded to pick up my glasses from the side of the bed and try to poke my eyes out with them - obviously she knows where the glasses go!
Her baby sign is really coming on now - she says poo but unfortunatly she does this sign when breaking wind also. Shes developed some of her own signs as well like more done with both hands when she really wants something and is going to cry if you dont get it. She points to things with a huge degree of accuracy now aswel!
She has said Lion but only once - mind due it was the day she got a board book about a lion and we opened a birthday presant that was a singing lion!
To day she went and got a plum from the fruit bowl by herself and eat it - well she eat half of it and then shared it with me - she really likes feeding me and sharing her food - I wounder if this is becuase me and Al tend to share what ever we are eating with her?
I think I may have been over cleaning the cupboards and stuff in the kitchen as when I gave Jean a basin with a little bit of water in it to play with she started cleaning the cupboards with it!
She also does the cuttest little wiggle dance when music comes one or you start dancing - we have some cute picks and little video clips that we must upload for all you baby fans out there!
Chuggers - mmmmm..... most of the time its fine but yesturday I was pounced by a chugger (charity mugger - you know the bods who stand on the street with the clip boards). I gave my standard reply 'You going to make me feel guility'. 'No I'm not he says' I was trying to be polite about the fact I wasnt going to sign up - but what I do want is charity connections - we have a scout group! I dont mind making them do fund raising stuff!
Anyway he asked if I knew about Age Concern and what was I doing about this problem of elderly people being left to suffer. I pointed out that I'd recently done a concert for Havering Age Concern (it might actually have been Help the Aged or something but I'm not good at remembering exactly but it was one of the old people charities). He was 'oh wow you sing blah blah blah' in a really sort of false I'M TRYING TO KEEP YOU TALKING voice. Then one to the heating thing - ie did I know x - amount of old people die of cold each yr as they cant afford the heating bills - I said I was awear of the problems facing old people as we live with my Husbands 73 yr old Aunt - the fact that she has more income than us isnt really the point - I was just annoyed he assuming people dont do anything for the elderly.
I understand that he was trying to make me feel guilty so I'd donate but it just annoys me - most of time when chuggers ask me what I've done for the children or Aids or what ever they then shake my hand when I tell them and are very nice about the whole not donating in the way they are selling. I get giving contact detials n stuff of the charity - this was what I was expecting when I said to the guy - 'Look before I waste anymore of your time me and my husband dont have the money for this at the moment but we have a scout group and are happy to do fun raisers' he just lost interest in me shock my hand coldly and walked away - no contacts for the Charity or anything and I was offering to do fund raising!
I was annoyed about this - I have become even more annoyed when Al said that he is probably commissioned based - FOR A CHARITY!!!!! Grrrr! Now I think that perhapse it is worth the charitys time and money employing students etc... but commission based? They are just cars sales people then - I think I must have always got the genuin 'do gooders' before rather than just an 'employee'.
It makes me sad that he reacted as if I'd burned him when I said I didnt have money to give at the moment 🙁 I only stopped as I thought I'd get contact detials of the charity - sigh.
Last night we had the first fire of the season - Mum and Dad brought chestnuts for roasting and we had marshmellows for toasting 🙂
And we even managed to bankthe fire (ie put lots of coal on it - cover it in ash and close the fire right down so it burns slowely) so that all I had to do to bring it back to life this morning was to riddle it (ie poke it lots with a poker so that all the ash falls out) and add more coal.
We have moved the setee back to its cosy position of in front of the fire so we can snuggle on it! The only downside is that the household jobs we had for the weekend over ran and so the fire guard is not yet up so Jean wont be able to roam free for a while 🙁
Ok peeps - we are having Halloween festives on the weekend of the 27th - ie we would welcome visitors from Fri 27th to Sun 29th of October - there will be decorations and games to play 🙂
Hope some of you can face the long and arduous journey to Gloucestershire to join us for this festive occasion 🙂
Again we have a sofa bed, floor space and a tent.
If any peeps want to bring fireworks - we could have an early fireworks night type thing!
Dear fellow geologist,
I have found a thing of exquisite beauty in the Oxfam book shop in Stroud yesturday. I couldnt believe my eyes when I saw it - I spent a whole 12 quid on it so I expect you all to ogle it and go ooooooo lots!
Isn't it just the best? Notice the date if you will on this next photo!
1895!!!!!!! Wow - not only is it one of our oldest books but just wow! I found it becuase I was looking for a presant for Al who collects old technical and scienific books.
For us RSM peeps T H Huxley is very very improtant 🙂
I am horrified at the wikipedia artical on the guy - yo geologists that are better than me - go and put our history into the artical please!
I would give a link telling people about T H Huxley and stuff to do with the Huxley school, the RSM and Imperial college but I cant find a decent write up or the pages dont work - why am I not suprised? If a peeps knows of anything good I could link to let me know?
Thanks
Oh and isnt the book lovely - for those who cant read the title on the book its Science and Education Essays by T. H. Huxley its volum III though so now I suppose I have to hunt the others down to make a nice set!
Sarah is very happy - geology love and old book love combined in one precoius bundle - sarah skips away into the sunset to read - woundering vaguely if it should be done with rubber gloves on? Hmmm.... maybe I should get Al to do more reading of old books.
Jean | sarah | 
Tue 17th Oct 2006 2:56 pm | 
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