Lilt and Jellytots most excellent adventure...

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Not sure if my message actually got sent so will resend.

Hope jelly ends up more tired out than you xx

Westie983

Levi- wrote: »

I set him up with rice krispies and Handy Manny and came back to bed

yay for rice krispies - the saviour for all mornings

feel quite sick at the thought of pools not being emptied, yuck...

debtfreewannabe321

Eww if that's true that the more you can smell the chlorine the dirtier the pool is then my local one wins scummiest pool of the year I bet! I purposely take the kids to a different one 20 mins away for their lessons and come to think of it I don't smell much chlorine there and it just looks cleaner!

I've inboxed you too Lilty!

killerpeaty

Well, you can think of it the other way, the chlorine smell means that it's cleaned.

Sorta want to kondo... Why do I have no drawers?

Westie983

will keep you posted of the smell of my local pool when I get off my bum and go next...

Hope we are all having a great sunday and that you have had an exhaustive day Lilty

liltdiddylilt

I am pooped.

I'm in bed. :rotfl:

As I just told dfw today we went to pick up my clothes, and then to pick up some food for a picnic (not doing very well with SFD's this month!) for madam, and some bread for the ducks. And off we went. The pond we first went to had 1 solitary duck on. And a few fishermen. So as we walked around it to get to the lone duck... I spied another one a bit lower down, all gated off with LOTS of ducks and seagulls and pigeons around. So I finally figured out how to get down to it, and as I was walking down I spied a park. A GOOD park!! One with lots more than the one we usually go to. So off we went. We fed the ducks, the pigeons (chickens) and the seagulls. We started munching grapes to get Jelly away and over ambled a few squirrels wanting in on the grape action. So I held one out.. and this cheeky little chap came all the way to me to get it!! And then ran off, munched it a bit, shoved it in his cheek and ran up a tree :rotfl:

We eventually made it down some steps... along a stream and over a trip trap bridge, then up more steps.. to THE PARK. Amazing!! It was such good fun we were there for nearly 2 hours. We met a little friend, and his little sister and their dad and dog Charlie. They arrived way after us and went just before :rotfl:. The kids had great fun. Jelly was having a wail of a time on all the new equipment. Climbing nets to get up to the slide. Rope walks and a spinning wobbly saucer she could sit in... And the swing was a giant net she could lie down in. Of course I had a go in that too. Selfies abound.

She threw an epic meltdown when we finally left. Was telling herself all the way home 'Had great time Elliott' :rotfl: so we went to pick up a few bits from the shop. Got a Baa Baa Pig balloon & eventually made it home at quart to 4. She then got a pukka pie (uncooked) out of the fridge, de-packaged it and ate the lid... :mad: so yeah that was fun.

Fed her. She threw it all over herself and the floor. Got her into pyjamas. Facetimed Nanny & Go Go & then she announced she was going to bed at quarter past 6 and off she went. Spoke to my mum a bit more.

And now in bed

I didn't take any picnic stuff for me. So.. a third of a pack of salt and vinegar crisps. A bite of banana bread. Half a banana. Some grapes. You get the idea

I had some more of the soup for tea. It seems to have mellowed in flavour and evened out. I.e not as horrid as yesterday.

Fighting myself. I want chocolate!!

P.S am glad I am not the only one with a mingin pool!! xx

Levi-

Sounds pretty good Glad you both had fun at the park - sounds pretty cool when you found the nice park!- little 'Tot always sounds so comical and cute We fed some ducks yesterday but apparently people had been told off there recently for feeding the ducks bread as suddenly it's been reported in the papers as being bad for them?! I was like !!!!!! people have been feeding bread to ducks since the dawn of time... bit confusing.. but we fed them the bread we took anyway as LL had been looking forward to it. Did you hear anything about that? I hope its just a load of codswallop as most things in the paper are. Hopefully you will have a chillaxing rest of the evening, enjoyyy! :heart2:

scubaangel

Ahh the joys of the bottom of a swimming pool...years spent sat on the bottom of a pool while assisting the diving instructors mean I have a whole new range of names for the things you find at the bottom of the pool (much like Ariel does for wreck debris), flesh coloured nudibranch sounds much nicer than 'plaster' or fuzzy anemone instead of 'clump of rank minging hair'. And thats before I start complaining about the uneven tiling in the deep end leaving me with cuts/grazes/just seriously dodgy looking lines across my knees, shins and depending on the skills being taught calves.

Actually went for a swim myself this afternoon, it didnt smell too bad but I didn't look at the bottom of the pool for a change.

stepuptothepl8

I think you are supposed to feed the ducks with frozen peas now ... Anyhow, glad you had a fab day, if slightly exhausting! Hope Jelly and you both sleep well xx

Westie983

Lilty sounds like a very productive day, I read about the duck and bread thing in the papers, and also seen it splotted over FB apparently its all about frozen peas now!! now i don't know about you but I would far prefer to carry half a bag of stale bread then a packet of frozen peas (not sure how frozen they would still be when I get to the pond, not forgetting the soggy bag/pocket/coat you would have at the end of it...

Glad to hear that you managed to find a new park, all part of the excitement for a toddler to try new stuff, sounds like quite an epic park, scramble nets to a slide *Awesome* sounds like Jelly had a good day and this has been finalised by her taking herself to be *WINNER, now my only grumble is your diet!!!!! banana bread and crisps

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Scuba- I have also had the same experience as you being a fellow scuba diver, my challenge was to find all of the coloured bands from my old pool and collect them up, along with the obligatory hair ties and rank hair clumps, my dive club used to use the pool on a two weekly basis so we got free reign of the pool including the deep dive pool, great fun, shame I have moved and no longer get to that pool but have joined a good club whom I get to go on holidays with so its all good,

Levi I agree with you I'm sure I saw the same ducks on the pond at my old park that I fed in 1988 still alive and quacking, stale bread was the only thing I chucked at its head when I was 5, so its was a eat it or not kinda moment, no peas from me :-)