Finally i have my Laptop back!

I haven't posted for a few weeks and the main reason has been a child related laptop dysfunction or in English, one of the little kids poured a glass of orange juice over it!!!! I am not sure which one but they were watching teletubbies on you tube and Fred brought it to me in the lounge saying it had finished so i closed the laptop and put it on the couch next to me, a bit later on i put it back on the desk to charge and noticed that the side on my leg and the couch was really wet, later on when Paul tried to use it it wouldn't work and that was the "flash to bang" moment.. the water had come from the laptop!. So we tried to dry it out over night but it still didn't work, so with not really having the money at the moment to buy a new laptop i called the insurance company to see if it would be covered and it was, but we did have to pay £100 excess, but i figured that was cheaper than buying a new one, My main worry was the data on the hard drive, all the gala files are on it and over the previous few weeks i had been really busy creating posters and saving all the forms and traffic plans etc for the parade. We do have a hard drive that we back everything up on but that last time we did it was Christmas,photos were not a problem as we still had them on our phones and sd cards. The one thing i have learn't from all this is to back things up at least every week or after i have been busy doing work on it and i think from now on i will save all the gala things to the One Drive as well, i am not taking any chances in future!. So the insurance company came and collected it and said it will either be repaired or replaced and a week after they collected it they contacted me to say it had been repaired which is good in one respect as all my hard work has been saved and the laptop has been returned complete with everything on it, on the other hand only the keyboard needed to be replaced so it would have been cheaper to do it ourselves. But all in all i am relieved to have it back, as good as my new phone is i have missed my laptop as its far easier for what i need to do.

So what have we been up to? well i have to say i wouldn't have found much time to blog or use the laptop as its been manic, we have had so much on, i will write other posts on the events that we have been to later, but we have had time to have a few little visits to the park on the few sunny days we have had, i was completely shocked to wake up one morning to what looked like snow but was really large hail stones all over the garden, not really what you expect at this time of the year.

I took this picture at Mollys school, they have a pond and this nice little wildlife area, you can just about see the hail like snow on the path.

Fred with his bow and arrow!, i have been taking the little ones with my mum to creepy crawlies,its a play area in the local sports centre, they have a bouncy castle and lots of toys for the kids to play with,its been closed for a few years whilst the sports centre had a major revamp, but i used to go all the time when Ewan and Molly were small. But anyway, one kid had a bow and arrow from poundland and all the boys were fighting over itso i promised Fred i would get him one and he was very happy with it, but it was a bit of a mistake as he used Alex as a moving target till it broke!!

We spent some time in the garden and as the kids have emptied out there sand pit i filled it with water and bubbles for them to play in but really should have realised they would stand in it... with there shoes on! i never learn

On the cold days they were happy to make forts with the couch cushions, or play trains Ali loves sitting in the carriage

Ewan had his 10th birthday the other week,after much debate we decided to get his own phone, i am not keen on kids his age having phones,but he plays out now all the time so its good to be able to get hold of him with out bundling up all the kids to go fetch him and he enjoys playing games on it but we have a deal that it stays downstairs so he can't stay up all night on it and we know what he is up to on it. For his party this year he wanted a sleepover with his friends as thats what a few of them have done, but we decided to go one better and have a camp out in the garden, however as he was at cub camp that weekend we decided to have it in the next holidays and he is happy with that, so i bought him a little cake for the day and will make him one for his party 

Ewans first proper cub camp,trust him to have his joggers on, apparently his cub trousers got wet on a hike, but he had great fun and it was nice to have a drive up to Waddicar to drop him off and collect him

As we have had lots of Gala things going on Molly and Fred have been playing "gala" a lot, they both love dressing up!

Its nice to have the computer back and i have missed blogging x