Plodding along

Life has been plodding along the past couple of months. Work is back to normal, all four of my charges are as interesting and fun as ever. And that is very true even though written down I see it written in a sarcastic manner! Without trying to be twee I do love both of my jobs, I have no clue what I'll do when Little R goes to nursery next year as my jobs are a perfect balance of one another for me.

My knitting projects are not getting much further along at the moment, I've spent a lot more time reading than knitting at the moment, but I have the materials I need to start my main Christmas presents and plan to start those soon. My Binary Heart (Ravelry link) project is at a standstill right now, I need to loosen some of the stitches as they're just too tight and the digits aren't showing through which is a pain. You can see what I mean below, it'll mean lots of picking and patience to sort it!

My lovely [second-hand-]new Astra eco needs looking at already, it had a cracked pipe which was sorted out by a local garage but Nick and I think they got pissed off and did some other damage to the car (Nick's Dad managed to haggle what they claimed was a £250+ job down to £50) so we need to get somebody to have a serious look at it. It's also gained loads of scratches, some due to my parking attempts when I first got it (you should see the drive I have to get in for work!) but a lot have just appeared whilst it's been parked nicely in bays in Brighton, I even got a bump on my door when it was in a disabled bay, how that happened I don't know!

We've had a productive few weeks recently:
We picked up my Merlin Pass last week and learnt our lesson about going to Chessington World of Adventures on a Saturday last week, so we're going to Chessington again on Tuesday. I started volunteering last Tuesday at a local volunteer/church run greengrocers and I also joined the local explorer unit with the intention of becoming a leader so I'm quite excited at the moment! Nick and I have also been swimming on a Monday night at the outdoor pool in Lewes, it's a nice pool, I'm showing how rubbish I am at swimming too! We're also going to hopefully sign up to a yoga course too. We've also started organising what we want to do with our food blog, which will hopefully come into existence soon!

I have a delivery coming soon of new filofax inserts, I tried to convert to a folder but it just wasn't happening.