Puddled Ryan

This is one picture I just have to share with everyone… yesterday we received this picture of Ryan out with mum and dad just after he’d found a nice big puddle.

Oh, how I wish I’d been there

Today whilst Ann was in the shop, it being Farmers Market day in West Malling, I thought that I’d clear out the garage and the garden of all of the rubbish that needed to be taken to the tip.  I cleared a whole pile of stuff from the garage and loaded it up in the car and did the first run to the tip.

Back at home it just left a couple of old broken fence panels to take to the tip and then I’d be finished.  Unfortunately one of them was too big to fit in the car so I had to break it in half.  This involved snapping the four main battens on the fence panel, which were a little too large to break by hand.  I decided the best thing to do would be to place them over a block of wood and stamp on them.

I got a block out of the garage and gave it a go – the batten cracked but didn’t break … I guess because the block of wood I had used was just too small.  That’s when I had my great idea!

Back in to the garage I go and out I come with a 1 litre can of paint.  That had to be tall enough to break the battens.  I carefully placed the fence panel over the can of paint and stamped down on the wood …. perfect the batten broke.  I repositioned the panel and stamped again …. this is just so easy … second batten broken.

I repositioned the panel and stamped down again — and that’s when everything went wrong!  I had missed the wood and stamped instead on the can of paint…   So, anyone for magnolia decking?

The pot of paint

The newly decorated decking

We all had a good laugh this morning … as Ashley informed us that he felt sure that he had made a mistake yesterday whilst sending a Postal Order payment along with an SAE to make a purchase and got it slightly wrong! He believed that he had stuck everything in to the SAE and mailed it off.

… and yes, strangely enough, Ashley received a letter this morning … back had came his postal order

Gemma’s comment? “So he really is a member of the Penney family then!”

We went to Bluewater Shopping Centre last weekend and it was manic! It took the best part of half an hour to find a parking space.

As we walked out of the car park we went past a sign for “Car Valet” in the car-park.

Ann turns round and says “we should of done that, just drive up, hand over your keys and they park your car for you”!!!

Well, Gemma, Ian and I had a good laugh imagining what would of happened if I’d handed my keys over to one of the car valeting guys and said “park this, thanks”….