We were woken up last night by Ben squawking in his sleep. Just as I got settled back into bed the bed started quivering (no it wasn't Daves snoring!) I couldn't get back to sleep having visions of the house falling down around our ears, having a huge landslide in our back garden or another tree coming down (obviously drank too much coffee before bed!) Well it turned out that we had the shocks from the mini earthquake but it was very strange and a bit unnerving!!

Yesterday I had taken the kids down to an indoor play area for a couple of hours while I read trashy magazines and drank coffee. It was the first time that Ben has just played and not tried to kill every other child in sight so it was really nice and actually quite relaxing for a change!

Today was library day again, yes Eilidh has read all her books again! Kendal library is a really nice, child friendly library and we waded through a few dozen books before actually choosing some to bring home. Hopefully this lot will see us through at least a week!! We then headed home and the kids settled down to do some painting while I got on with tidying some of the garden. It was lovely this afternoon, sunny but cold. Both of them then appeared to 'help' and decided they were going to water the plants. If the garden was sodden before it ended up like a complete mud wrestling arena by the time they had finished! Still we managed to get quite a bit done although we still have half a chopped up tree in the garden. Mind you my back is aching tonight!