Great weekend line up......

Great weekend line up.........

Last night we went to dinner at our friends E & A.  E cooked the most amazing pork curry.  I would never have thought of using pork in a curry.  I will definitely have to get the recipe it was truly amazing.  We took Mimi with us and she was such a good girl.  She played with S & M and then when they went to bed she slept beautifully on E & A's sofa until we left.  She made it all look so easy.  If only this was always the case!!!!
She was quite funny when she was playing with S & M last night.  M had a Buzz Lightyear and Mimi was in awe playing with it.  S was most disappointed because as a girl Mimi should have been playing with Barbie and not Buzz!!  Funny how the stereo types creep in from an early age.

Buzz V's Barbie

Today we have got some friends coming to see us who we haven't seen since we got married 6 years ago and Mimi has got a birthday party for her little friend N from play-school.

Mimi has finally stop requesting to be a scary tiger.  Yesterday morning before play-school (despite having a bath the night before) I had to really scrub her face as she had started to take on a yellow tinge and looked like she had jaundice.

Wow what a Scary Tiger

Yesterday we had our first trip to play-school since September without any tears.  Mimi is very strange I think it is an anxiety issue as being separated from us as we have to leave her screaming however we pick her up 3 hours later and she is like a different child telling us great it was.  Anyway I have resorted to bribery...............I told her what a brave girl she was and that if we didn't have any tears then she could have Slinky the dog from Toy Story, there was a request for Buzz however there was about a £45.00 price difference so we settled on Slinky.

Some of poor Slinky's rings are already a little bent but Mimi is quite happy.

Poor little thing has woken up this morning with what looks like an eye infection.  Wonder what are chances are of being seen by a doctor this morning?!?

A week of dusting to come?!?

Jobs for today:

• A little bit of washing
• Recover from a slight over indulgence last night
• Attempt to tidy the house
• Pitch the tent for Mimi to play in.

Additional jobs which crept in

• I made some fab focaccia bread for Mimi's tea which using Annabel Karmel's idea I then turned into mini pizzas.

Just before it went in the oven.

The finished bread fresh from the oven.

• Started to dig over the vegetable patch and weeding of the garden - the bindweed was strangling all of the roses.

Whilst we were sitting at the table for Mimi's tea the farmer has just turned up with his combine harvester and has started to harvest the wheat in the field in front the house.  To put this into some perspective the field is about 3ft from our kitchen window.  I don't mind as we have fab views out over the field and the sea but just check out the dust cloud it is creating!

View from the Kitchen Window

Yesterday I took Mimi shopping because I had promised her that if she managed to get 10 smiley faces through out the week then she could have a Thomas the Tank Engine.  I have learnt a valuable piece of parenting knowledge - Never promise something like this until you have checked the prices.  I nearly had a fit the first Thomas we found was about £40.  Luckily for me as Mike would have killed me Mimi found some Rabbit ears (in the sale so even better!) which she pranced round the shop in and a little set of George Pig & Danny Dog figures.  These were considerably cheaper than Thomas although I did find a slightly cheaper version for £10 which I will have to remember for future.