Chez Perryman

Family January!!

chezperryman — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:32:54 +0000

The last couple of weekends have been a chance to get some quality family time after the hectic spell in December with functions and try and Christmas planning. It’s been very busy, but at least we are spending some more time together doing ‘family stuff’ than we have had time for late last year.

Saturday’s are spent with Ry chilling at home while I take T swimming and then spend at east 3 hours. Drinking coffee, eating donuts and gossiping with the girls while he runs amok playing football and batman and whatever else he can dream up wi Oscar, Matty and Ellie. Normally we’re not home until late afternoon, via weekly shop, so we dump the shopping, grab Daddy and head to a pub for wine, beer and dinner. T likes the Squirrel and the Mill, Ry likes the Refectory and the Inn on the Lake and we all like The Stag – there are just too many good pubs to choose from, good problems to have. Although iPad ages are a feature for keeping T happy he is now getting to grips wi dominos and backgammon so bar games are a must.

Sunday’s we get up for football from 10 – 11. Td is to very good at it! But he is the youngest there, by a margin and his hand eye co-ordination and foot to ball co-ordination for that matter is abit light. Still he participates and has a bunch of school friends there so he likes it, half the time none of them are paying any attention and they spend the whole time playing star wars or indiana jones games but then that’s what being 4 is about.

After football we come home for Sunday lunch – not really lunch because it’s never ready before 3 on account of the wine consumption and pace of cooking – suits us though and Ted and Ry have a couple of hours of Wii time. By the time lunch is over its time to pass out in front of the big screen while Ted watches a movie, current favourites are Up, How to Train your Dragon and Meet the Robinsons – I am just a full we have moved on from Mickey and Donald do the Three Muskateers because that was getting pretty old!

Bath, story and bed – and that’s just me and it’s back to work!

Works going well – if a little hectic while I figure out what on earth it is I am supposed to be doing – I knew it wouldn’t be easy but it’s demanding for sure. I a few months will be much more settled but for now I definitely feel like I am earning my money. Ry is doing great, business is hard because his industry is way in the sh*t but he is doing pretty well and working hard as ever.

I have a ton of pictures from Dubai and need to spend some time sorting them out but expect a big gallery soon.

Got to get on now – my lamb shanks are 2 hours in so need. To get the mash sorted!! Jeez my boys are spoiled

Cheerios

Really. No posts since September?

chezperryman — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 08:49:23 +0000

I can’t believe it, 3 months? Where did at time go. It has been a little but busy I guess. Currently Boxing Day so we are in early morning movie mode. Just had breakfast and now it is Pirates of the Carribean time – no doubt it will not be for the last time today. We are planning to leave the house later, but only to go goon around in the woods so Ted can have a go on the swing. There are leftovers enough to feed thirty people, and since we are fresh back from Dubai there is a lorry load of laundry to do, and with holiday and Christmas out of the way and two days off work now is the ideal time to do sorting out, and boy do we have alot f sorting out to do.

Ted has had a wonderful Christmas and loves all his toys, yes tray his presents were opened to statements including ‘oh my gosh its so big it must be the batcave’ and ‘the t Rex, I always wanted this in my life’

Word of the day ‘rudog’ as in rudog the red nose reindeer …. Sweet

Ry came up trumps, again, Ted gave me a Kindle 4 and R got me a 3G contract for my iPad which I have been failing to sort out for myself for months and a Bicester shopping card with a substantial sum loaded on it so all I have to do is pick the day and he will take me there for the day to spend it!

Well, one new years resolution is to try and do a post once a week, another is to sort out all my photos so perhaps I can get some galleries up – I know I have not done ones from Teds birthday, Dubai and a whole host of other occasions so maybe I can catch up a little. Although with the new job and everything it might be difficult s I am sure to be very busy. Still that’s life isn’t it, busy and full and I guess I wouldn’t have it any other way!

Love to all and an happy Christmas

The wanderer returns

chezperryman — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:40:38 +0000

It’s been a busy couple of weeks with Ryan away and Ted and I getting on with work and school. We did fine without him but we are quite glad he is home! We went to meet him from the airport yesterday morning and Ted ran down the arrivals bit to get to Daddy quick smart, it was very sweet.

While Ry was away Ted and I had a great weekend in Dorset with mum and dad and Charlie. Had a chance to catch up with Emma and the girls on the Friday night as well which was a plus as we hadn’t expected to see them too so that was nice. We went to Lullworth on Sunday for a bit of an outing – although it transpires that Ted and Charlie are a pretty good combo for just getting on with it and playing nicely! Pics at the bottom from the beach.

Back home and it was a busy week of work and school, ted did much better a swimming and was put in the able group which is good, he had been quite anxious following the Vegas incident, and it turns out the school pool is quite cold, at least compared to imber court where we go on Saturdays

Good to go swimming on Saturday and meet up with Emma and Caroline and the kids, They have such a good time playing now, they are all getting so independent and big! Ted swimming really coming on, not sure if it’s just falling into place for him, or the additional lessons, or whether the school lessons are more structured but I think he will be swimming unassisted soon which is a great milestone.

He was such a good boy while his Dad was away, good company, didn’t give me a hard time, such a great kid – I guess it would be a problem if I didn’t think so – but with our hectic lives he is so good an falling in and not making it difficult. Bless.

This week has been pretty busy and given all the extra hours I have done lately I took a day off today which was good. Had coffee with school mums this morning, did some paperwork and now in Nero having some time with coffee, cheesecake and my iPad! Home soon for some extra time with Ted before bed. It’s been good and I need to try and have some time off to compensate for the travel and long hours!

Showing off

chezperryman — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:55:39 +0000

Where we got to by the end of our weeks work

chezperryman — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:07:08 +0000

This is where we got to by Sunday afternoon…. Unfortunately there is ways to go in my office!! We have done some sorting and tidying since these pictures and so there will be a next round to update soon as we piece it back together. R off to Kili tomorrow, it is hard to believe he will be away for so long!

Ted has done brilliantly so far at school, he has enjoyed the new things to do, embraced school lunches and his best friend is Luca, another new boy not from the nursery, he has done swimming, French and music and dance today and brings his book bag home with a new book every day. There have been no tears, no fuss, we have done mummy drop off, Demi drop off and various pick up combinations and he takes it all in his stride. It is so nice to see how confident he has become and how ready he was for a change from nursery to more learning environment.

We are looking forward to out weekend in Dorset visiting Granny and Grandpa France and I am thinking about how to fill the weekend after with fun Mummy and Teddy things to do.

When downloading the pictures from the first day at school I found photos from graduation, Durban and Teds birthday party, so once I have done some editing I will post galleries of those events even though they may be a little late they will be a really nice review ofthe first half of the year.

I am feeling better since the chiro adjusted my jaw, I have some aches and some anxiety, but generally I feel better – more normal if there is such a thing – most of the time, this week, and certainly better than last week, but then I am busy at work all the time and I have been doing yoga and neck stretches again which I am sure helps.

First day at school photos

chezperryman — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:02:27 +0000

Fast post for the grannies who are no doubt keen to see the pictures!!

Click to view slideshow.

Day 5 and 6

chezperryman — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:23:54 +0000

The last two days have been pretty much non stop building stuff, oh and five trips to the tip today, which was no joke given how hot it was!! Still seems like there is a long way to go and the list of things gets longer not shorter but here are some pics so you can see how we (and the gardener) are getting on….

These were last night

These are tonight …

Day 4 progress is slow but carpets are down

chezperryman — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:23:44 +0000

Tuesday we got the carpets down and T is back in his room … Finally we finished getting the rooms ready – hoovering the floors, R nailing down the boards that were creaky and generally clearing the way for the carpets to go down. We have dark stained some of the pine furniture we had so it fits with Ryan’s office and his desk arrived so he is back upstairs and all set up. still a ways to go as all the shelves are now in his room but by the end if today (Wednesday) we should have made a lot more progress.

Now the carpets are down it is coming together but for now there is almost mired mess than there was before ….. See below … The good thing is that being on holiday means wine consumption during daylight hours us up and the mess is, as a result, more tolerable!

Light fittings and curtains and curtain poles are arriving and Teds pictures too which he loves. He also has his Spiderman and Ben10 bed linen and is excited about that!

More at end if Day 5

Day 1 putting it back together

chezperryman — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:21:10 +0000

We are on holiday, and we are at home … It’s a new one on us and since it’s a bank holiday weekend it’s not really feeling like it yet, although there is a lot less pressure to get all the chores done in two days! We had a good day, took T to the pool while R put his office back together, the good news there being he is no longer squatting in mine …. Suffice to say we a not cut out to share a working space

I had a stiff jaw and imminent foot cramp sensation most of the day which seems to be quite persistent at the moment, think it is stress and anxiety and that maybe I am grinding my teeth at night, am hoping a week at home will help, might also be because of the chiro adjustment yesterday as I think I had it last week too after the monster neck crunch!

When we got back from swimming I had a bit of a sort through the baby clothes which Demi has already sorted into piles and types by age, I started with the newborn stuff which was easy because he never wore any of it on account of being huge! But when I got to the 0-3 and 3-6 clothes ….. I wept when I found his little furry coat and one of my favourite sleeper suits even though I must have spent hours trying to cajole him to sleep in it feeling tired and frustrated and ready to throw him out of the window at the time. I have kept a few of the most evocative items and the rest Re day to sort into charity shop and eBay. I am hoping to have them all done by the end of the week.

Md afternoon it was time for Homebase for some Walnut wood stain, the cobbler for three pairs of Bennetts to be reheeled and soled, the jewellers to see if the necklace R gave me as a wedding present that i am having fixed is ready – it nearly is and it looks amazing, the dry cleaners with shirts for ironing, the butchers for some mince for dinner and the pub, because we are on holiday so why not!

Back home R was back up the ladder to nuke the wasps nest again with some full on powder, he was feeling bad about it until he got stung and then he found it a lot easier

I cooked some dinner while the boys watched Lilongwe and Stitch and T has just gone to bed late at 9 so we have opened a bottle of wine to have with our supper.

Mostly it is just so good to know that by the end if this week so much of the chaos we have been living with will be sorted out, and having had all this work done the top of the house is going to look lovely.

Last day at nursery……

chezperryman — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:34:35 +0000

So it was Teds last day at nursery today, I dropped him off this morning and went with Demi to pick him up at 3. He had had a lovely day although I suspect the significance was rather lost on him! We took chocolates for the girls and then went for coffee and cake afterwards. There is a funny video on Facebook – I haven’t quite got the hang of videos on blog yet but will get there. After coffee we went for school shoes (see pics) and some new books as a treat for it being a special occasion. Last day at work for a week for R and I tomorrow as we have next week off to get the carpets and furniture in and have a really good sort out of all the stuff we have lying about. Ihave to label all teds uniform too! It will be feat to have a whole week of sorting out the house ad we haven’t had that since we moved in – given some time and good weather we will do garden and braai’s as well. Can’t wait for family time. Then ted starts school!!