Friday

A shortcut through Windsor Court. I was going to say the police station but remembered that I used to spend quite a bit of time here about 8 years ago - it feels like another lifetime ago!

Thursday

The toilets in Costa for an oil change. Glamorous!!

Wednesday!

New thing today was BUGGYFIT! Running round the park with three other mums and doing exercises with the buggy! Man I am going to ache tomorrow!

Days merging into each other

Is it Tuesday or Wednesday today? This is a question that I've been asking a lot since the baby was born. So I have no idea on which day I did what, but in the last little while, our new things have included lifts to get the buggy up to the second floor of shops in town (where the baby clothes are usually conveniently placed), people's houses for play dates and new rooms of children's centres...

Wednesday

New thing today was the other children's centre in town.

www.westberks.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=21507

Chinese calendar

Gosh, I am more fashionable that I realised! My mum used to have calendars like this when we were young making looking at the date a whole lot more interesting (and confusing). I did used to keep them and thought they might make an unusual feature wall like the one pictured in this weekend's Guardian magazine.

Monday

Sigh. A&E at RBH. COuld have been worse though! Also McBaby's first train journey!

Sunday

Read most of the book "From Newbury with love" - a collection of letters between a Newbury bookseller and a family from Moldova that he chanced upon through his support of Amnesty International.

Also had friends round for lunch who we hadn't fed before....


www.amazon.co.uk/Newbury-Love-Letters-friendship-Curtain/dp/186197860X/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1329225029&sr=1-1-catcorr

www.amnesty.org.uk/

Saturday

New thing was running around Greenham Common for the first ever Newbury Park Run. Being so unfit is not nice, but the aim of the game for me was to do it without stopping - no matter how slow the time!!

www.parkrun.org.uk/newbury/

Thursday

New thing today was going to MIssion Hair to make a much-needed appointment to rectify the awful state of my hair!

www.mission-hair.co.uk/

Mercy in Action

New thing today was visiting their new shop which has moved from Northbrook Street to Bartholomew STreet...

Monday

The new Barclays branch in Parkway. As soon as I started queueing, the McBaby started crying...

TUesday

New thing today was a shop in Sherborne. I can't even remember what it sold.

Wednesday - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - a classic!

Thursday - Back streets in Basingstoke on my way to Wickes. The McBaby was very taken with Wickes. I wasn't. Particularly as no fewer than seven members of staff watched me carry a baby in one arm and twelve pieces of flooring in the other and not one offered so much as to open the door for me.

Friday - Cara - a new shoe shop in town.

Saturday - New thing was the lift in the library. We were there for National LIbraries Day and I was thrilled that there was an OPen UNiversity stall. Except the guy manning the stall just raised his eyebrows at me and I was too scared to ask for a catalogue of courses. The course I need is "assertiveness".

Sunday - The GUard. My dad has been on at me for ages to watch this film and came up for lunch with the DVD. It's brilliantly witty and very Irish. Think it probably warrants another watch as I'm sure we missed lots of clever stuff.