We saw Marcos and Barbara today for lunch and a trip out to the park. They are wonderful with our kids and it was wonderful spending the day with them and the food was brilliant too. Wow even Jessica ate more than usual.

Today we had a wonderful time just spending a day with another family with kids the same age. In the morning snakes and ladders at Syon Park, then picked up lunch from Ham Parade and Kingston Market before off to see Stardust. I loved it, but I always love that kind of movie. My son was of the opinion it was boring as there was not enough fighting in it. I am going to send him to WWE next time. Then off to Wagamama's for supper. We all came back full and happy.

My kids have proved you can get a sugar high from eating all the plums in the house. Now I want to know how to stop a boy from shouting.

If you are going to the best toy shop in the world everyone thinks of Regent Street. For the big kids according to Chris there is the Apple Store, but to everyone else there is Hamleys. We had a good day out with my Father visiting the two european bookshops and Hamleys. My son has made it clear he is following his parents into loving computers and gadgets, also Ben 10 is up there with them. My daughter, it was obvious loves painting and cuddly toys. She cuddled all the cuddlies she could find and came away with more paints, (and I thought she had loads of both already.)

My daughter and I have come to a compromise, she will get warm in our bed if she watches Miffy at the same time. Chris's Mac is big enough for me to have the other side of the screen, so we are all happy.

I logged in to email someone, about bits I had found in Kingston, when I saw I had an email. How to make my day an email from Rich this morning and one about ten thirty. I guess being a full time mother means just any communication with other adults cheers me up.

I think we are accepted by Timothy and Matilda they are both purring in their sleep on our bed.

We went to Wokingham today. We saw the Aunts, cousins and of course Nanny in the afternoon, then we got invited to P and Rich's for supper where we discovered that our sons are remarkably alike. From Pokemon to having their photo taken. The boys seem determined to keep in better touch than us parents. Lets just wait and see. Then we dropped in the last of Tiggie's bits in on Dad and Carol and the kids were so pleased to see Tiggie again.

My son has asked for a while for a game of Old Maid / Donkey. I now know why, he beat me twice. During the second game my daughter came in, so for the third game I helped her, as we played go fish. I won three, and the kids won five each. I guess it is not my game.

It has been a plan for a while, to remove the conifers at the end of the garden. So yesterday we started digging round the roots of the one by the garage door. Then last night Chris put the fuses back into the lighting circuits and discovered the kitchen light was still crackly (after my daughters efforts with the water). So this morning, Church got ditched to catch up on the jobs around the house. So Chris removed the strip light in the kitchen, followed by more water pouring from the ceiling and when homebase was open we all went and bought a new light for the kitchen. So after a late lunch and a new light in the kitchen we all set to work on the tree again. It felt like we were recreating a mango grove tree with all the roots being exposed. The kids seemed to think that pulling a rope or watching nick jr was more interesting. So when the last root was half cut through, being under the tree, it was left to Chris push/guide and me to pull the tree down. Sadly the apple tree had to get pruned to allow it down too, as the conifer was growing between the apple trees branches. But we achieved the two main jobs this weekend that we had to do, lights downstairs and a tree down. I just hope the green bin men are kind in a week and a half's time as our green bin is overflowing and so is the black recycling bin.