Sunday 16th November 2008

After a lovely sleep in and breakfast consisting of pancakes lovingly made from scratch by my precious dh, we finally got our acts together enough to have our much needed family photoshoot.

In South Africa I religiously had the family together out in the garden every 3 months or so, in order to capture the passage of time and so that there would never be a shortage of happy shots of us all together (including me for a change lol).....this hasn't been the case here unfortunately so today was the day and armed with the tripod we braved the cold to get these shots.

After the shoot it was off to Burgess Hill to fetch my lovely kitchen trolley which I picked up "free, gratis en vir niks" from Freecycle...For the uninitiated, Freecycle is a web based service whereby you can "recycle" items you no longer want or need and they can find new homes other than the landfills, all you have to do is go and fetch them and they are yours.

This is an amazing "throw away" society and it is great that what is junk in one home can become a treasure in another - with enough time I am sure you could furnish an entire house for free....we, fortunately only have the above mentioned trolley and a desk for Megan.....but it is early days yet.

Nicholas, I am pleased to say, is recovering nicely from his cold and both Megan and Phillip are happy and ready for school tomorrow....one of the good things about a peaceful weekend at home is that everyone is refreshed on Monday morning.