It's been a potty week weatherwise. On Wednesday with the mercury hitting 33 degrees, Flo and I hit Balmoral beach, sensibly remembering the sunshade. It was a cracking hot day and I had my first swim in the ocean of the season.
On Thursday with the temperature still high we decided to stay outside come dinner time and after picking up pre-ordered fish and chips in Glebe went down to the park at Glebe Point to eat them with a cool harbour breeze. There's a great old-fashioned kids' playground there with the kind of play things there we used to play on on Barming Heath including a roundabout and a giant seesaw. We had a right laugh messing around with the girls until a cool change hit and we headed home.
On Saturday we crossed the bridge to Balgowlah for dinner and a sleepover at Jules and Lenka's house. After two bottles of Champagne, Zoe and Paul and their kids arrived too. We fed the kids before despatching them downstairs to watch dvds, (from the back of the couch) while we had dinner and played Cranium, a sort of Triv/pictionary/charades hybrid. We went to bed quite late and of course woke too early with sore heads, but the kids happily played together for hours downstairs, making dens and watching films, so Rob, Lenka, Jules and I had a completely relaxing grown up morning reading and chatting. There was an absolutely massive thunderstorm and it chucked it down for hours so it was lovely being indoors looking out at the rotten weather. It was so much like not having children that I picked up The Road by Cormac McCarthy and read it cover to cover in 3 hours on Jules and Lenka's couch. What an amazing book. I cannot stop thinking about it and am dying for Rob to hurry up and read it so we can talk about it. All the time I was reading it I had to keep stopping to take a breath and gather myself. I kept saying to Jules, who had already read it - this would make an amazing film. Jules said "It's been made into a film and comes out in November". I've just watched the trailer online and it looks very true to the book. Terrifying. I CANNOT wait.
It's been a potty week weatherwise. On Wednesday with the mercury hitting 33 degrees, Flo and I hit Balmoral beach, sensibly remembering the sunshade. It was a cracking hot day and I had my first swim in the ocean of the season. 
On Thursday with the temperature still high we decided to stay outside come dinner time and after picking up pre-ordered fish and chips in Glebe went down to the park at Glebe Point to eat them with a cool harbour breeze. There's a great old-fashioned kids' playground there with the kind of play things there we used to play on on Barming Heath including a roundabout and a giant seesaw. We had a right laugh messing around with the girls until a cool change hit and we headed home.
On Saturday we crossed the bridge to Balgowlah for dinner and a sleepover at Jules and Lenka's house. After two bottles of Champagne, Zoe and Paul and their kids arrived too. We fed the kids before despatching them downstairs to watch dvds, (from the back of the couch) while we had dinner and played Cranium, a sort of Triv/pictionary/charades hybrid. We went to bed quite late and of course woke too early with sore heads, but the kids happily played together for hours downstairs, making dens and watching films, so Rob, Lenka, Jules and I had a completely relaxing grown up morning reading and chatting. There was an absolutely massive thunderstorm and it chucked it down for hours so it was lovely being indoors looking out at the rotten weather. It was so much like not having children that I picked up The Road by Cormac McCarthy and read it cover to cover in 3 hours on Jules and Lenka's couch. What an amazing book. I cannot stop thinking about it and am dying for Rob to hurry up and read it so we can talk about it. All the time I was reading it I had to keep stopping to take a breath and gather myself. I kept saying to Jules, who had already read it - this would make an amazing film. Jules said "It's been made into a film and comes out in November". I've just watched the trailer online and it looks very true to the book. Terrifying. I CANNOT wait.
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