I'm getting older/growing up -depending on your point of view...

Well I feeling happy and content this morning – have had a lovely, gentle weekend so far with my family – I really am a very very lucky woman! Actually when I say gentle weekend it started with quite a raucous night out instigated by my partner in grime (Oh I haven’t told you I’m a night-time school cleaner yet have I? Well I am- and although I can honestly say it’s not been one of my greatest ambitions to be a cleaner I really enjoy it.- Leanne is great fun and we always have lots of laughs and of course the obligatory moans about the state of the staffroom). Anyhoo back to Friday night out – my introduction to Maidstones nightlife. To backtrack a bit – I don’t think I have been in a nightclub for about ten years so it was with some trepidation I donned my dancing shoes. It was interesting to see nothing much has changed since my 20’s although they no longer play scatman!!! Fortunately I had dragged Louise out with us (while Dave darling man that he is stayed home to babysit all the girlies) so I had a dancing partner for the evening. Did I enjoy my night out? ..hmm Yes I think so – I loved been able to “let my hair down and boogie” … What did I learn from from my night out? … that I am really content with the life I lead, that I don’t need attention from other to reaffirm my worth and that in future I’ll be saving my pennies for pursuits I really enjoy. I know I’m definitely getting older because from now on I’m no longer embarrassed to go out the theatre/art exhibitions/etc on my own (Dave doesn’t share the same passion for all thing theatrical – he’s a sportsman and while I’m not - I do understand the enjoyment he gets from it, fortunately as he does my interests – well if not understands at least tolerates it LOL). So watch this space dahlinks .. I’m restarting my cultural education Saturday was spent in more gentler pursuits – Dave and Louise took the girlies to the park in the morning while I walked to the market in town (now for all my SA reallies- before you picture the quintessential English country village market and me meandering along with my wicker basket … remember I live in Maidstone so had to dodge 4 thooosand and sixty two cars and risk my life crossing main roads carrying my tesco bags to get there). Having said that there is something sooooooo satisfying about buying one’s meat and veg from the market as opposed to the local superstore! Plus there is a SA market stall so I treated us to some boerewors/biltong/Ouma rusks – mmmmmmmmmm could life be any better. (Strange how even after 11 years here the tastes from home remain firm favourites?!) Last night we all snuggled up on the sofa to watch our weekly fix of Funniest Home videos – amazing how humans of every age find humour in others misfortunes.. I mean lets be honest there is something terribly funny about a cat falling into a fish tank or a show-off taking a running jump into a snow pile only to find his posterior making contact with a hard layer of ice not a soft pile of snow! Today has been earmarked for the more mundane aspects of family life .. a trip the laundry (our blummin tumble dryer is broken – I’m praying Santa can squeeze one down our chimney this Christmas), a grocery shop to restock the now very bare cupboards and the weekly BIG clean and sort out of the house. Till later dahlinks .. hope your Sunday is blissful MWAH Debsxxxx PS.. Sarah, Soo and Mel - you'd been most welcome to share my (still unanswered) ad whenever you feel the need to escape ... Soo- I'll add a request for a warm stable with clean hay for any Millls&Boons type requirements you may have ... altho' I think I shall first take you out (refer my post about fri's outing) which I think will squash any of those fantasies pretty quickly LOL