Been very quiet on the crafty front of late. Two reasons for this really, one I have lacked motivation and two we blitzed the house the other night but all the junk has been dumped in the spare room (in an out of sight out of mind ploy – but in reality it’s just out of sight until I need to wander into that room on a daily basis to trip over everything). We would put most of it up the loft, but at the moment we have resident starlings nesting up there and with the fear that they may have already ‘done the business’, we don’t have the heart to evict them leaving their eggs to perish. I might watch them at some point and try to work out if they are still just building the nest in the hope that we can throw things up there.

On the plus side, the rest of the house is the most sparse it’s been in near enough a year. The unecessaries laying around are all tools and stuff for the decorating plus the bikes as we currently don’t have a hut.

We were supposed to have made a lot of headway with decorating the living room at the weekend there, but it was M’s birthday so I was at her wee party and then W’s sister, brother in law and the kids came to visit so we headed off to the beach with M in tow (to give her parents the chance to tidy up the bombsite that 5 kids managed to leave behind) and had a blast. Pizza hut for dinner was a huge let down though, the service in the Kilmarnock branch was terrible. Very very very slow and the food wasn’t that great when it did finally arrive. The kids were fed up waiting on their food. W being his usual self tipped, my tip was just for them to provide a better service. I won’t be going back to that branch in a hurry.