Royal Ascot Week

So it has been Royal Ascot this week and Jason and I went on Tuesday, which luckily for us seems to of been the only day without rain. We had a fantastic day all dressed up, Jason in his morning suit and top hat and me in my new frock (well, I just didn’t have a thing to wear!), obviously I also had to get new jacket, shoes, handbag and hat. We met some friends and enjoyed a few glasses of champagne whilst watching the horse racing. We were in the Royal Enclosure, which made the day even more special, plus it was great to have a grown-up day. Nobody through a tantrum or wiped their nose on me – which often happens when I have a day at home with the kids.

Unfortunately my camera has broken so once I work out how to load pictures from Jason’s camera you will be able to see us in our splendour!

I’ve been busy today setting up marques and labelling and wrapping cakes for Isabella’s school fayre tomorrow, its amazing the skills you learn once you become a mum - who would of thought a few years ago I would of been baking fruit cakes and building marques with confidence. The weather is not looking good so I think I’ll be wearing wellies and waterproofs – lets hope the sun shines over us for the afternoon.

Jason is away at the moment, he is doing the round the island yacht race – a 50-mile race around the Isle of Wight, there are about 1800 yachts competing and knowing Jason he will want to be the winner.

Half Term Fun

Well the beginning of half term was wet, very wet. My heart sank on the bank holiday weekend to see all the rain. We had been invited to a garden party on bank holiday Monday which was cancelled due to the weather, so instead I suggested putting on wellies and taking Oscar (our dog) for a walk whilst splashing in puddles, great fun, or so I thought. After about half an hour of walking through the fields near our house, Claudia said "carry me Mummy" Isabella said "I'm freezing" and I must admit I felt as though we were in Scotland not a May bank holiday in Buckinghamshire. So we turned back home and decided a better plan was to play games on our Wii machine whilst eating chocolate! A much better idea.

The rest of half term certainly got better we went swimming a couple of times and Claudia finally found her confidence in the water, at last she was able to splash around in her armbands without holding on to me the whole time. We also visited the Walter Rothchild museum in Tring (a museum full of stuffed animals) which was great fun. Our dear friends Elaine, Jamie, Adam and Rose came to visit from Somerset which was lovely and on Friday we had a delightful picnic in the Aquadrome in Rickmansworth. All to soon it was time to go back to school and the neverending tasks of washing, ironing and making packed lunches started all over again - talking of which it's now 22.45 and I haven't made Isabella's lunch for school tomorrow yet!