Well, I am up really early after another restless night. I think the only way I will get a decent nights sleep is to leave home!!

Anyway... we had the kids friends, Zeph and Isaac over for the day on Wednesday as their dad Chas had loads of stuff to sort out and Dawn (their mum) has been in hospital for over a week now. They are having a tough time with Chas's business going under and Dawn not being well at all. The boys were fine and quite happily stayed here all day playing with Eilidh and Ben and Chas surprised them by bringing Dawn back out of hospital with him when he came to pick them up.

Yesterday the kids did a few pages of workbooks each and then decided to do some painting and sticking with tissue paper. They made some really nice pictures and while I sorted out some finances in the afternoon they helped Dave with the garden.