Good job I don't need my bag today

 

Good progress

 Hopefully they'll get it finished by the end of the day.

Plastering done

 The builders were here yesterday and plastered the hallway.  They're back again today to add some wood panelling.  Not sure what it will look like but April is confident.

We did it!

 We finally completed Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden last night.  It was good fun.  I tested out my new dice too but the function room above the pub was too dark so couldn't read the numbers!  Doh!

Another day, another record

 I beat my 500m swim record by 13 seconds this morning.  11min15s! 

That's nearly twice as fast.  

Cheeky cat

 She's lucky I spotted her tail going in there.  I was about to shut the cupboard door!

Gig cancelled

 We were supposed to be out for a gig last Thursday so seeing as we still had a baby sitter booked we went out locally instead.  We tried the new wine bar in town, followed by another couple of pubs ending up at my local The Chequers.  Urgh.

Saturday boys day in Hastings

A bunch of the Tonbridge lads headed down to Hastings on the train this Saturday so we had a little pub crawl. We got a little wet playing crazy golf but had a good laugh none the same.

What to get yourself for your birthday

 When you already have everything?  More dice!  Look at these beauts!  They weigh a good chunk, I wonder how they get the colour through the middle of each of them.  My next session is today so will be able to give them their first run out.

Best swim time

The pool was dead this morning and I had a lane to myself. I ended up beating my best 500m pool time again.  11m34s.  To celebrate i've created a new chart.

Here's the old one

Finished (or nearly)

 We beat the big bad in our d&d game last night.  There's a few bits and pieces that we need to tidy up but we're pretty much done with the campaign.  That's 11 months in the making.  We're all keeping our characters and moving onto the latest published campaign soon.  Vecna: Eve of Ruin. I'm now level 10.  The highest i've ever been using the same character from scratch.  

Lost my earbuds last night

 I lost my ear buds last night.  Pretty sure I just put them in my pocket before going to the pub after the d&d session, but last known location is just before the pub.  The landlord hasn't seen them so i've bitten the bullet and bought a new pair.  They should arrive tomorrow.  I was going to get the new pro version (Samsung) but that was over £200.  I liked the previous version so just bought the pro version of my old set. 

Hallway to finally get finished.

 After getting the extension a year and a half ago we are finally getting round to making good the hallway.

When we blocked up the wall we didn't get the guys to make good, in hindsight we should have paid them a little extra to do that too but in the end we just wanted our house back.  Anyway, we've now got someone coming round tomorrow to sort that out.  Not entirely sure what April's got the guy doing but am sure it will look great once painted.

P.S. Please ignore the 24 bottles of wine in the hallway.

Other things we need doing with the house...

• Re do the downstair loo
• Change door knobs on the kitchen furniture
• Turn the small box room upstairs into a shower room when the kids get a bit older
• Re pave the driveway
• Referb the front windows
• Repoint the front of the house
• Referb the shed / get new shed
• Referb the front room

Air con installed

 The guys have been back again today, yesterday they put a blower unit each in the kids bedrooms, today they've done our bedroom.  Now they just need to install the big aircon unit to the side of the house.

Do you ever get that feeling that you're being watched

 

Another trip to the beach

 

Weymouth old harbour

 Weymouth Old Harbour is really nice

First trip to the fair

 

Teaching the kids to gamble

Weymouth beach was rammed 

The kids did not enjoy this one

Chesil beach

 Chesil beach was pretty close to wear we stayed so took Flo's kite out for it's maiden voyage.  I've never done it before but it was surprisingly easy.

So much food

Our seafood platter came with so much food the waiter had to drag over an additional table 

Sand world

Some pretty impressive sand sculptures, and then our two had a go. 

Monkey world followed by vineyard

The food was good when it eventually arrived (they'd not put our order through to the chefs).  I was driving so April made the most of the dalay by drinking wine.

Fancy restaurant

 We went to a few nice restaurants on holiday and this was probably the best (most expensive).  I even had a few hot padron peppers!  I'm always disappointed as apparently only 1 in 10 of them are hot but in my experience 0 / 10 are hot.  This batch was probably 50 / 50.

Fish crackling