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ailbheSaturday, 9:30 am - depart Farmer's Market with veg, after Linnea has finished her second sausage in a bun and I've had a cup of tea. Trike to town centre.
9:45 - read books in the cafe while waiting for the painting session to start.
10:00 - strip Linnea down and get her painting
11:45 - friend who had vague arrangements to meet us "on Sunday morning to do painting" shows up as I have just finished washing Linnea down, having figured that 15 mintues before chuck-out time at the painting group was unlikely to indicate a likelihood of showing up. Linnea and I leave anyway.
13:00 - Linnea and I arrive in London to meet Rob after his Swedish lesson.
14:00 - Linnea, Rob and I bump into Jos and Kim on their way to meet us at the entrance to the zoo. Hippos, lions, zebras, giraffes, and scarlet ibis ensue.
15:00 - Linnea eats for the first time since 9:30 in the morning. It's been that hot.
17:00 - we leave the zoo and go find food, via a Boots for nappies, toothbrushes, etc.
19:00 - Rob leaves the restaurant and goes to work.
20:00 - Linnea, Kim, Jos and I arrive at the flat with the orange football flag on the door. Linnea finds juggling balls, a green pig, and a book - Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy. After a brief settling-in period I change her nappy, Kim reads her a bedtime story, I feed her, and I put her to bed.
21:00 - Linnea is in bed, Kim makes special custom-made dairy-free bread. Kim, Jos and I talk about, well, babies, mainly, and breastfeeding, and my other baby-related obsessions, but also about being a white immigrant in England, and Bratislava's water-sprite festival of all things, and nyponsoppa, and laws and taxes and things about marriage, and some other stuff.
23:00 - Rob arrives back, has cold drinks, sofabed majick, Linnea transferred without incident from bed in other room to bed we're actually sleeping in, Dutch hosts provide mountains of clean bedlinen and towels and so on.
Sunday:
4:00 Linnea wakes crying; wakes me (in bed with her) and Kim (in the other room). Rob (in the same bed) and Jos (in the other room with Kim) sleep through it.
7:00 - Linnea really wakes up; first words "In Mammy's BED!" in surprised delight. We feed her cake and drinks of water until the breadmachine goes bing at 9.
11:00 - Victoria Park, with playground. Truly excellent park.
13:30 - Lunch with Gideon in Paddington Station.
15:00 - Arrive Reading Station, find trike, go home, find swimming kit.
15:30 - Go for Father's Day Swim.
16:00 - Get chucked out of pool as it's closing.
17:30 - Dinner
18:30 - Rob puts Linnea to bed
19:00 - Hilarious Dr Who episode which Rob didn't find as funny as I did
20:00 - attempt to self-medicate for nasty, nasty sinus thing I got while in London. My left sinuses are very painful and, er, productive. Note to self: try a weaker saline solution, that really hurt.
21:00 - Assemble buggy, nappy bag, picnic kit, etc, for trip to Kew Gardens tomorrow. Also remember money off entry fee voucher. Luckily the weather continues charming so I can wear a dress and bring a folding raincoat, and Linnea won't need much in the way of extra clothes either.
9:45 - read books in the cafe while waiting for the painting session to start.
10:00 - strip Linnea down and get her painting
11:45 - friend who had vague arrangements to meet us "on Sunday morning to do painting" shows up as I have just finished washing Linnea down, having figured that 15 mintues before chuck-out time at the painting group was unlikely to indicate a likelihood of showing up. Linnea and I leave anyway.
13:00 - Linnea and I arrive in London to meet Rob after his Swedish lesson.
14:00 - Linnea, Rob and I bump into Jos and Kim on their way to meet us at the entrance to the zoo. Hippos, lions, zebras, giraffes, and scarlet ibis ensue.
15:00 - Linnea eats for the first time since 9:30 in the morning. It's been that hot.
17:00 - we leave the zoo and go find food, via a Boots for nappies, toothbrushes, etc.
19:00 - Rob leaves the restaurant and goes to work.
20:00 - Linnea, Kim, Jos and I arrive at the flat with the orange football flag on the door. Linnea finds juggling balls, a green pig, and a book - Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy. After a brief settling-in period I change her nappy, Kim reads her a bedtime story, I feed her, and I put her to bed.
21:00 - Linnea is in bed, Kim makes special custom-made dairy-free bread. Kim, Jos and I talk about, well, babies, mainly, and breastfeeding, and my other baby-related obsessions, but also about being a white immigrant in England, and Bratislava's water-sprite festival of all things, and nyponsoppa, and laws and taxes and things about marriage, and some other stuff.
23:00 - Rob arrives back, has cold drinks, sofabed majick, Linnea transferred without incident from bed in other room to bed we're actually sleeping in, Dutch hosts provide mountains of clean bedlinen and towels and so on.
Sunday:
4:00 Linnea wakes crying; wakes me (in bed with her) and Kim (in the other room). Rob (in the same bed) and Jos (in the other room with Kim) sleep through it.
7:00 - Linnea really wakes up; first words "In Mammy's BED!" in surprised delight. We feed her cake and drinks of water until the breadmachine goes bing at 9.
11:00 - Victoria Park, with playground. Truly excellent park.
13:30 - Lunch with Gideon in Paddington Station.
15:00 - Arrive Reading Station, find trike, go home, find swimming kit.
15:30 - Go for Father's Day Swim.
16:00 - Get chucked out of pool as it's closing.
17:30 - Dinner
18:30 - Rob puts Linnea to bed
19:00 - Hilarious Dr Who episode which Rob didn't find as funny as I did
20:00 - attempt to self-medicate for nasty, nasty sinus thing I got while in London. My left sinuses are very painful and, er, productive. Note to self: try a weaker saline solution, that really hurt.
21:00 - Assemble buggy, nappy bag, picnic kit, etc, for trip to Kew Gardens tomorrow. Also remember money off entry fee voucher. Luckily the weather continues charming so I can wear a dress and bring a folding raincoat, and Linnea won't need much in the way of extra clothes either.
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Date: 2006-06-18 08:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-06-18 08:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-06-18 08:49 pm (UTC)Admittedly, the London plan was "If I feel well enough after painting we will do it," and the staying overnight plan wasn't even a plan, but that's not the point. Spontaneity and scheduling each have their place; extreme vagueness leads to things like well, the way we ended up over an hour late to meet Gideon.
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Date: 2006-06-18 08:50 pm (UTC)It was easy. I may be tempted to do it again. The trick is to get Rob to the destination well in advance, so that Linnea and I can proceed at our leisure and still not be late.
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Date: 2006-06-18 09:02 pm (UTC)F wants to get a dalmation just so we can call it Bottomly Potts :)
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Date: 2006-06-18 09:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-06-19 03:03 pm (UTC)I wish that I had the energy you do. It sounds like you had a fun, busy weekend;)
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Date: 2006-06-19 05:11 pm (UTC)