Lathany

Well, maybe there wasn't any singing. Although I can't imagine Ryan going for an entire Tesco trip without at least a verse of "Twinkle, Twinkle".

Have I ever mentioned how stir crazy the twins become when they don't get their daily trip out ? In fact, mostly they get taken out for a shopping trip in the morning and a walk in the evening. This is a great plan, except on those days when it chucks it down with no sign of an end. Never mind, it's over now.

In other news my Christmas present buying is almost completed due to the joys of on-line shopping, although I'm still missing an advent calendar. Anyone know where to get a decent non-chocolate advent calendar ?

And Final Fantasy X-2 now has a release date. It's 13th February 2004. Yippee !

Our small patch of grass is now covered in white fur. White cat and white-and-grey cat had a fight at about ten o'clock this morning. White cat won.

Gangland boss Emily Marle was in the middle of her morning nap (or so she claims).

( The episode in Monde. )

Any comments/additions appreciated.

( And zandev wins the candy nicking award ! )

But at least I stole more from secretrebel than she did from me.

And it was another exciting morning at the baby clinic.

( Baby Weights )

In other news, not much is happening. I've finished editing book two and I'm now waiting for my editor (i.e. bateleur) to have time to re-read it and give me a final set of comments. I've moved on to drawing the Gibbard family tree to go with it (which will be useful as a cast list - after the various Mourn's Gift comments I received), but it's not exactly an urgent task. I'm also building up a set of ideas for book three, but I have some way to go as yet.

Finally, I'm starting to draw up Christmas and birthday lists. As ever, the twins will get something which doesn't take up too much space in our little, cramped house.

I finally finished the painting. Yesterday bateleur and I covered all the walls, today I applied a second coat where needed and painted the few spots that had been missed.

( And I'm pleased with the result )

Apart from the decorating we've been watching the first season of Alias for the first time around.

( And rather good it was too - with spoilers )

All in all, it's been a good week.

On Friday we packaged up the twins and their stuff and drove up to Cambridge to drop them off with Granny Jo and J-J.

( And Saturday morning we went shoe shopping )

( The Yeung Sing )

The second reason for choosing the Yeung Sing was its proximity to Nottingham - our tourist location of choice for the weekend. ( Two tourists in Nottingham )

bateleur has now retrieved all the bedroom decorating equipment from the shed. This means that I ought to be getting on with the whole "repainting the bedroom" task. One the other hand, maybe I'll start first thing tomorrow...

Cleaning up cat sick was never a fun job.

However, today, I found out how much worse it can be. Beatrice decided that the (fortunately child-locked) disinfectant looked like an exciting new toy.

Beatrice doesn't love me anymore.

From triskellian, the author list :

( An amended list of ten authors )

And, in other news, the twins love chocolate pots too.

Today I started the much-delayed task of sorting through my old clothes; working out which I might wear again (almost none of them) and which I was going to put in the charity/recycling bag.

( They all seemed strangely small )

Must take the twins out for a nice walk to the recycling bins.