Freecycle

Recently we've been camping in a tent my Mum got for us. It's a cheap way of having a holiday and quite a lot of fun with the kids, except when they need a piss first thing in the morning or during the night and we've got to tramp throught the rain to the toliet blocks.

Someone posted a porta-potty on Freecycle, we got in touch and arranged to pick it up. Wow, this is generous, we're going to get a free camping toilet. No more 4am trips to the toliet blocks. Yippee!

Last night we drove up there and met the guy outside the scout hall, he had the porta-loo in his car. He was a scout master and this loo was surplus to requirements, they'd only found it during a clear out of the storage hut and it had probably been there for 8 years or so.

We're having quite a chat with him about camping trips and stuff when he hands the loo to my wife. As she takes it, it shifts a little and from within we hear a 'SLOSH'. Hmmm, nice, 8 year-old fermented scout's piss. Can't wait to clear that out.

Been a long time

I haven't posted for a while, I've wanted to but there always seemed to be something else to do. Nothing I had to say seemed worth the bother of logging in and noting it down. I felt a little guilty that I wasn't keeping things up to date but not enough to make the effort. Now I've decided to try a bit harder.

This year's OU course is done, bar the exam, and my wife is about to undergo her gall bladder surgery so things should be a little easier. Maybe I'll keep this blog more up to date, who knows?

Glasses

My little girl, F (4),  had been showing signs of poor eyesight so we had her tested and she needs glasses. She couldn't wait to get them. this can only be because she is still so young.

 

I hated my first pair of glasses but I was 14 and getting used to NHS eyewear as a teenager is not the best form of confidence building. As a result I didn;t wear my specs full time until I was in my twenties.

 

My daughter has had her bins for a week now and thinks they're great. She chose lilac frames and got a little opaque lilac case for them. She calls them "magic glasses" because "I can see everything ."