CBC was away at DoE Silver Expedition from Saturday to Monday. I was awoken around 5am by him frantically scouring the house for his belongings to pack and as he kissed me goodbye at 6.50am, I asked him if he'd made himself lunch. He hadn't so there I was at 6.51am, running downstairs in my nightie to make him sandwiches and salad.
I then spent the next few hours until 3pm tidying and cleaning our very messy house and doing washing. At 3pm, having quickly packed, I walked to the station and made my way to Kent to stay at my Dad's house. He picked me up from Ebbsfleet and I discovered my sister had sent him along with a cup of tea in an insulated cup to drink on the journey back to their home. What a nice surprise! Dad and I ate some crisps in the car and made our way over there. After some chat, we had a lovely Dine in Meal from the Three Sisters restaurant at Chart Farm which was amazing! After dinner, my sister and I played a game of Qwirkle. We got to a very exciting moment where we realised someone could score 31 points in one go and annoyingly, I had 2 of the three pieces needed for this when she got the piece I needed! Luckily, we both like a visually pleasing Qwirkle board so we agreed to a few movements to make it look pleasing!
We went off to bed and woke around 9am.
My little sister has a real way with describing garments. As in, she makes them sound hideous. I am always really sceptical when she describes a new item she has bought to me and when I finally see it, it's usually very nice! So, when I was describing to her what I was going to wear for the birthday barbecue, I asked her if I should try and describe it to her in her style. She was highly amused and told me to go ahead.
"Well, it's a jumpsuit that kind of has really baggy legs. It's coloured in bright coloured splotches all over it and it's also got weird eyes and suns on it."
Here's what I wore for the family barbecue. I have loved this jumpsuit from Emily and Fin for ages and when Emily and Fin recently stopped trading, I was really sad as I really like their clothes so when I saw this on Vinted for £14, I grabbed it whilst I could. My sister was wearing a cardigan that day that really matched it, so I stole it to wear!
This is the cardie I was really wearing!
My older sister, husband and my niece joined us around 12am and we ate lots of delicious food. Of course, we had a game of Qwirkle. It was a really pleasing game with everyone playing nicely and aiming for fat chunks of tiles! There were numerous Qwirkles. There was a hilarious moment where there were two positions to get double Qwirkles in one go. My younger sister got one and then, everyone was waiting for the Yellow cross tile to complete the other one.
It was hilarious because my sister's boyfriend placed his tile and got it to the utter frustration of my niece and older sister whose turns were next WHO HAD ALSO PICKED OUT A YELLOW CROSS! It was hilarious! I came second place by 4 points!
My sister drove me back and I ended up finishing the cleaning by washing the tiled floors!
Monday, I had a good day at school and had a lovely surprise when I went back to the music room with my Drumming Club as 3 of my old Sad Frog crew, T, T and A were waiting there to see me! Hilariously, A wrote a message on my board like she used to.
Today, school was also a good day teaching the Year 3's about Reggae.
After school, I came back to the Music room and there were my girls again. I had no club and they weren't in a hurry so they stayed for 20minutes for a chat before going home! It was so, so lovely to see them and they filled me in on all the gossip from Secondary School. I feel so honoured that they still want to come and see me this time of year. Usually, they become too school for school!
I had my hair cut in Hexham in the half term and the hairdresser had styled it really nicely and my younger sister kindly styled it for me again! She always used to love doing my hair from a young age and she still likes doing it!
Here's a picture of my Great, Great Grandfather which my dad discovered and showed me when I was over there! He's from the English side of the family. We had some interesting chats about my paternal family.
For instance, I may have mentioned that my Grandmother was Greek. What I now understand is that the family lived in Turkey in Istanbul when she was young but because of difficulties over Greek people being in Turkey at that time, essentially, they were sort of refugees who ended up in Egypt. My Great Grandfather was a very respected Civil Engineer in Turkey before he left so he got work very easily in Egypt as did the rest of the family who all were scientists of sorts. I need to talk to my dad more about his family past as I found it very interesting! Then lots of that side of the family moved to South America which I had no idea about!
I have an orchestra rehearsal tomorrow with Orchestra of the City who I haven't played with since last July (apart from covering a few rehearsals last October).
Hope you are well!
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