NotSheep

No, not busy because I was having a baby!

Yesterday we scored a couple of great freebies on Freecycle - a tent and a bicycle. The bicycle is a bit bigger than the one Barney has, and I’d noticed this week that all the boys needed their bike-seats raised a bit, so I suggested to Barney that he “move up” to the “new” bike, which he did. Then George moved onto Barney’s bike, Freddy moved onto George’s bike, and we put the stabilisers back on Freddy’s bike so that Jack could have it. Barney is happy because he’s got a bigger bike, George is happy because he’s got a bike with gears, Freddy is happy because he now has a red bike, and Jack is over the moon because he has a bike at all :-D. Unlike all the others when they got bicycles, Jack required no teaching at all, he just got on and started pedalling. His steering is still a bit wild, but hey, it’s only been a few hours

Since Scratchy had taken some of the seats out of the car to go pick these things up last night, I took the opportunity to vacuum out the car before they went back in. Result: one clean car. Well, clean on the inside anyway. The outside is still a combination of dust-grey and mud-brown.

Then we had a look at the tent - wow! It’s huge - it only just fits in our garden! - and fabulous. I’d take a photo and post it, but it’s taking up so much of the garden that there isn’t anywhere to take a photo from! It’s a Relum Canton (in case that means anything to anyone - it means nothing to me :lol:). It’s one of those huge things you get at Eurocamp-type places. There are three bedroom pods, two of which will each hold a double air-mattress comfortably, the third will hold a single with a little room to spare - and all the bedroom bits put together only take up about a third of the whole tent. It’s got windows with curtains and vents and a wardrobe bit and even an emergency exit. The whole front panel, which contains the front door and two windows can be moved forwards to increase the “indoor” space or back to the first set of poles to give you a sort of patio thing. It’s in really good condition too - what a find! There are still three poles we haven’t managed to identify, plus a bit of blue fabric which we can’t figure out what to do with. It’s the same fabric the bedroom pods are made from, it’s square-ish with a hole in the middle and a number of hooks around the edges, and it fits across the width of the tent. Anyone think they can identify it? - matching tablecloth maybe?

Midwife came by and said my blood pressure was up slightly (but I had just put up a new tent with my husband, so that’s hardly surprising :lol:) but nothing else to report. She did make a comment about seeing me a bit more often now I’m “so overdue”; I think they will heave a collective sigh of relief when this baby finally puts in an appearance. I can’t really blame them for that, as I will too!