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Saturday 21 April 2012

The Easter Bunny Hops Off and Other News

Dahlings! Phew!  The Easter hols are over - Boys 1 and 2 went back to school this Thursday..Daphnes4Boyz like to ease themselves gently back into the term, so no sooner have you loaded up the 3 tons of sports equipment into the car and deposited it and boys at the school, then you are back taking it all home again ...in fact in my case I was back at the school within 1 hour as it turned out Boy 2 had left behind his piano lesson* bag...

Here is a visual of our Easter decorations.

Now here is the real picture.
Robo Rat came courtesy of Louise in Townsville - gee, thanks Louise!! Louise sent a huge box of things for the boys, including Robo Tarantula and 2 huge life like rubber snakes.  The rubber snake had a not inconsiderable role in the school production of "Joseph and his Multi-Coloured Dreamcoat"** and now has its own Equity card.

We had fun over Easter - Lovely B and her daughter Lovely R and Lovely A came to stay for the Easter weekend.  We did a little trip to Windsor, it was biting cold, there was a huge queue all the way down  the street for the Castle.  The Queen was at home as the Royal Standard flag thing was flying but she did not ask us in for a cuppa.  One word: Republic.

Instead of taking a nice pic of the Castle for you all, I took a pic of a nearby clothes hire shop - it offers a free jacket with any kilt package.  Of course I found the phrase "kilt package" very amusing.  One thing about having the mental age of an 8 year old is one is rarely at a loss for a laugh..



The Easter hols continued long after the Easter weekend was over. 

To keep myself sane I fell back on my tried and tested remedy of gritty detective novels.



This quartet (known as the Red Riding quartet) is brilliant but not for the faint-hearted;  I don't want to be crude but it's battery and buggery all the way, and that's just the good guys....it's set in Yorkshire in the 70s and 80s and features police corruption and child murders, set against the background of the real life Yorkshire Ripper murders.  The four books  are linked, and I am hoping all will be resolved soon as I near the end of the last book, but somehow I am not expecting a happy ending.





Right, time for some more left over Easter egg.


*Dear Mrs Music Teacher, is it a good sign that after £300 of piano lessons (not that I am counting the cost or anything) Boy 2's only ambition is to play the Crazy Frog theme (what I know as the Beverly Hills cop music) as shown on YouTube?

** to make it more accessible to Daphne's parents it was re-titled "Joseph and his Missoni Knitware"

18 comments:

  1. Only 300 pounds on the piano lessons? I was asking my husband the other day how many thousands of dollars we were going to have to spend for our oldest to finally learn to swim. He has been attending lessons weekly since the age of 2. He is now 6.5, and is flailing around in the shallow end like a child that has never seen water before. I think it is because they like to encourage "fun" in the lesson.... he is excelling at that.

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  2. Blighty - lovely post, have missed your family's antics!

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    1. Hi Patricia, we have been too busy doing antics!!

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  3. Happy Easter :)

    I invite you to
    http://fashion-whoknow.blogspot.com/

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  4. So happy to read of another who enjoys grizzly type books/TV shows, in particular anything remotely involving Jack the Ripper. My husband thinks I have a screw loose.
    As for music lessons...am currently contemplating selling darling daughter's flute. Three years of early morning band practice/lessons, exams and school concerts in far flung places and the expense, well I never added it all up. Ten years the instrument has lain dormant. Sorry, can you sense my feelings of angst?
    Anyway, it's lovely to hear you survived Easter and the school hols Blights.
    xx

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    1. Hi there Annie - you would like the Red Riding books then, also one by S J Bolton - have you read it - about modern day Ripper - think it's called Now You See Me

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  5. came to see what a nit is. is it like lice? sorry if it is.

    we spent thousands of dollars on ski lessons for the 3 boys and as soon as they perfected skiing they wanted to snowboards.

    glad you all had a nice easter and i love lou's gifts to the boys!

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    1. yes Janet, nit is a louse, think it is the egg - yuck yuck ! Mr B partic aggrieved as he is not exactly overgrown hairwise (sorry Mr B).

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  6. Cute - nothing says Happy Easter like a basket of chicks and various vermin and reptiles!

    Will have a look at your gritty novels - BBC4 seem to have found an bottomless supply of sickening crime from what my daughter calls Norwedenmarkland. The latest has a feisty blonde heroine, bizarre crime and a lot of men in the nip- got to love those Scandinavians! xxx

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    1. Hi Mrs Exeter, how are you? hope all well.
      Grandma W was telling me about a Norweden prog she has been watching - The Bridge - but she did not tell me about the men!! Need to have words with her!!

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  7. Ahhhhhhhh, you stole my domain; I wanted this one :-)

    Nice Blog, though.

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    1. Dear Sir D, just took at look at your blog, stirring stuff, fascinating, awful - that appalling case about the murdered pregnant woman...

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  8. Blighty, Loving the kilt package! Yes, I do think a few rats are always appreciated in a boys Easter basket. :p !

    My boys went back to school today! Our break was looong!

    Kim:)

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    1. Dear Kim, isn't it quiet all of a sudden when they Go Back to School..

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  9. i hold you personally responsible for me being late making dinner. that site is hysterical!!!
    larry isn't happy right now...gotta go.

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  10. LOL - I recognise that stuff!!!!!

    Lou

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