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Friday 14th August
My Birthday! Enjoyed it, we stayed home in the day, I had a bath, lovely cards and presents and relaxed day, then we all went to the local curry place, which is very good, and had a delicious meal.
Saturday and Sunday 15th and 16th August
A bit of this and that and not much I think. We had takeaway from the place we had eaten at the night before (Shanaz in Lewes, very good food).
J did a lot of work setting up my new laptop - he helped me buy it, partly as a birthday gift. By the time it had arrived, the old one was really on its knees, so it was lucky he was able to help me so that I didn't have to wait, as I was in the middle of work and laptop was at that 'only charge if charger is in one single difficult to duplicate position' stage). Also a very strange visual problem with the screen getting worse. So phew and thanks J, very much x
On Sunday Freya went over to G's, with K and L, for a nice day there. I started my day sharing one of last night's poppadoms with the cat as she was out in a sunshiney yard and I opened the living room door up.
Can't remember much, think I was working most of that day. Oh we watched Children of the Stones!
Monday 17th August
Freya went into Brighton with L to see Minions again, all went fine.
Finished Children of the Stones in the evening.
Tuesday 18th August
Yay! J's mum joined us and we went to play crazy golf in Brighton, lovely! Rumble Jungle Adventure Golf. And then a drink at cafe, slow walk along front and dinner at Terre a Terre. Wonderful! Bit of extended birthday.
Wednesday 19th August
Quiet day at home, we watched a couple of films, think it was Bruce Almighty and The Road to Eldorado, which interestingly had humans as deities as a shared theme, accidentally.
Finished a big document, bar proofreading.
Thursday 20th August
Freya went with a group of friends into Brighton to see Paper Towns at the cinema. They had a good time.
Exam results day! Freya passed her IGCSEs in Chemistry and Physics, very pleased for her and proud. It's great to have been through one whole cycle of exams and now know how it all works.
Friday 21st to Monday 24th August
PGL for 3rd year. This time our group was 9 girls, with C and I as the 2 adults. Unfortunately I forgot my phone! So I have no photos (and had no clock, book, connectivity or alarm most of the time!).
On Friday we arrived and settled in, had dinner and the evening activity was Passport to the World (as ever for first night).
Not a great night's sleep for most of us, for various reasons...
Saturday: breakfast, then Abseiling and Archery - think everyone managed Abseiling this year, where last year a couple couldn't quite face it, so that was great. Lunch, then Giant Swing and Orienteering. All went fine, very hot sunny day. After dinner, their activity was Spacehopper Football.
Better night's sleep!
Sunday: breakfast, then Zipwire and Trapeze - again everyone managed Trapeze, whereas last year they didn't all. Freya did it for the first time, yay! I didn't do Zipwire this year (or anything in fact!).
In the afternoon they did Canoeing in lovely sunshine after rainy Trapeze earlier, then Aeroball.
Evening activity was Splash - producing a protective shell for a water balloon to be tested. Sounded good.
I didn't sleep well, not sure about others.
In the morning a bit of birthdaying for D in our group, complete with two times singing and a cake.
Then Freya and I had to leave early as we had her clinic appointment at hospital.
A bit of travelling in rain and then the clinic - slow going but eventually we were with consultant and she okayed medication to start very slowly on low dose. MRI had gone wandering, but EEG had just enough on it for her to feel able.
Tuesday 25th August
R came for a few hours, for Minecraft and watching Simpsons maybe. I got a lot of washing and some work done, among other tasks.
Friday 31st July
M came for the day and we went up to Spring Barn for the afternoon, which was good. Freya and M did Water Wars again. M came with a bounteous picnic and I bought ice creams I think. Back at home they played Wii for a while before pick-up.
In the night Freya had had a frightening dream, possibly even hallucination, and had called out something like "I'm going to die" or "Am I going to die?". She then had similar dreams/incidents for another two nights out of the next 3 or 4, but since then has stopped, thank goodness.
Saturday 1st August
was when Freya would have been going off to Olave, the week-long international Guide camp near East Grinstead, attended by Guides from all over the place, but instead she and I went into Lewes to buy some blue clothes for the days that she would be able to attend, in the following week, and then in the evening we went to Proms in the Paddock but left early. Saw the fireworks from our bedroom window later.
Sunday 2nd August
A relaxing Sunday, had a bath at some point, and did a nice burger, chips and salad dinner.
Monday 3rd August
Went up to London, where Freya joined the Olave 2015 Purple subcamp for a Monopoly challenge and then a London Zoo visit. I was there too as an honorary Guide helper (with a different small group to the one Freya was in). It was so great that she was able to join them, very kind of them to arrange it and make it work for us.
Tired tired Freya on way home. It was quite an exhausting day. But great!
Tuesday 4th to Thursday 6th August
Each of these days we got up early and a very kind woman who was doing a geocaching activity at Olave came and picked Freya up and took her to camp for the day, where she took part in activities themed around fire, water, earth and air, creativity and sport. She did all sorts: raft-building, cooking, crafts of many kinds including tile-painting, rocket-making, geocaching, zip wire, ice skating, fencing, cricket and quite a few more. She had a lovely busy time and came back with lots of potential penpal addresses in a special book they were given.
Official Olave T-shirt!
Friday 7th August
Got up at a more normal-for-us time, flopped around watching a few things and went on a lovely walk, finding some blackberries and enjoying views and butterflies and everything.
That evening had curry and cider and watched the last 2 episodes of Humans, which we had all been watching together every night all week. Mostly very good.
Saturday 8th August
Took Freya to see K in Brighton, a very last-minute thing. Managed to arrange to see Nigel at same time, in Pavilion Gardens, and also bumped into Lucy and Kathy and lovely Jan, who I've never actually met but have known of and hovered in the same area as forever! Really good to catch up with Nigel and be silly and very very old together.
Picked Freya up, managed to stop myself taking a kitten home with me, and we came home and had burgers, chips and salad I think, and watched Insurgent, which just suited me right.
Sunday 9th August
Was a lazy day, Freya had come down with a cold, which turned out quite a nasty one.
I attempted a lentil and mushroom loaf but it didn't work out, I suspect I left something out, the texture was all wrong. Taste was good though, but not what I wanted to produce.
And the roast potatoes I did with it just sat in oven not roasting!
So ARSE.
J and Freya ate it all and thought it was quite nice, I guess having not shared my vision of how it could have been.
Monday 10th August
Day at home, think we watched a Studio Ghibli film "From Up on Poppy Hill" and something else? Not sure. Freya was coughing a lot and quite tired.
Tuesday 11th August
Was going to be a day having a friend visit, but Freya wasn't really well enough, still coughing quite a bit, so another day at home, think we watched "Whisper of the Heart" and Madagascar 2. And I did some work. Not much else, I had Freya's cold by then too.
Wednesday 12th August
J had first day of a week off, we all headed off to a neurophysiology centre in Haywards Heath for Freya to have her EEG done. Fortunately her cold was mostly better, much less coughing than Monday and Tues. J went in with her and I read my friend Caron's poems in this book which was just the thing. Some fantastic voices in there. EEG went smoothly and we all then headed to Brighton, had falafels and went to see Inside Out, which was good.
Thursday 13th August
We got up not too early, some shopping came (I got paid on Tuesday hooray!) and then we headed into Brighton attended by torrential rain and stormy skies.
Freya had her MRI at the Royal Alex. My turn to sit in with her. All went smoothly.
When we emerged after all that banging and whirring, the sun was coming out. I got the bus home and Freya and J stayed in Brighton to do some shopping related to my birthday, which is officially now in fact. Happy Birthday me, I am a prime times a prime, which has to be good.
