…who is a massive 2 years old today *grin*

He’s in bed now, after his Peppa Pig/Scooby Doo fest of a birthday. He woke up earlier, crying because his birthday was over. The Ent promised him that his presents will still be there in the morning. As will the Peppa Pig DVD – and his present for Frodo: the Star Wars Trilogy LOL

We’ve had that on all day – with neither of them paying attention, but going ballistic if I even attempted to turn the TV off. *sigh*

And I caught the end of Return of the Jedi. *shakes fist at Mr Lucas* …that annoyed me… almost into a Spaced/Simon-Pegg-taking-all-my-Star-Wars-stuff-into-the-garden-and-burning-it moment. Not that I have much Star Wars stuff. Honest…

We made it back from Wales in one piece. Yay!

Frodo burst into floods of tears as we pulled up outside our house. He wanted to go back to the holiday house, LOL. Samwise toddled in and rediscovered his lego and crayons. Frodo went to bed for an hour to get over the trauma of being home.

We had a good time, staying in a place that had no vowels. It would’ve been a nightmare if we’d gotten lost. There was no way either of us could pronouce the village. *grin*

We traipsed around castles – Conwy and Harlech – and I took far too many photographs of stone, turrets, steps, towers and flags. Samwise enjoyed his first beach at Portmerion, happily disappearing into the distance with the comment ‘I’m walking’.

On the last day we went to King Arthur’s Labyrinth at Coris. It’s an old slate mine. You cram into a barge and disappear into the mountain. It’s black, cold and the water is 160 ft deep. Then you’re taken through a maze of tunnels by a cloaked guide and shown scenes from the Mabinogion. Frodo loved it. Samwise wasn’t so sure… But a dragon roared and blew smoke at him on the barge out… so that made up for the cave.

And if Berkley say yes to The Bone Magician’s Daughter, there’s a sword in one of the nearby craft shops with my name on it…

I missed yesterday as it was another day of running about and general ironing. *sigh*

So my little blog will be quiet for the week… eek.

I’ll be back the day that Billionaire is out, 15 April… but in the meantime here’s the cover to look at, LOL.

And it’s forecast rain, rain and yet more rain in the part of Wales I’m headed off to. Why should I be surprised 😉

I’m still two drum loads of washing away from being finished with the washing…

How do I have so much bloody washing??

I am trying to get every scrap of it done so I’ll have a choice of clothes to take on holiday for all of us, rather than the standard faire, LOL But I’m moving into Day Three of the washing marathon and it’s starting to get a tad boring now.

And tomorrow will be Ironing Day.

You can tell I haven’t even thought about writing, can’t you. Besides quick bursts of emails, this is the longest I’ve been on the web all day. And I’m starting to scare myself. I’ll start to go into withdrawal soon *grin*

Now I have to go and wash the gunk off my head and hope my hair hasn’t turned green or that it’ll fall out in clumps. When I’m rich I’ll be able to pay a professional to do it, rather than getting half way through it with The Ent, having a fight, and then me taking over 😉 Then again spending that amount of time in the hairdressers would be freaky scary. It’s going to be bad enough tomorrow just getting it cut *sigh*

We had Frodo’s parents’ evening tonight. It was fairly positive – well compared to the last one 😉 . He and Samwise caused mayhem, then we went home.

I think the peroxide is seeping through to my brain.
*Wibble*

… will now be available from

Samhain Publishing

on 6 June 2006

(they’ve had a bit of a rejig 🙂 )

…will be available from

Samhain Publishing

22 August 2006

*double grin*

…will be available from
Triskelion Publishing

from 15 April *grin*

I’ve been running around like a mad thing all day. Prepping for a holiday, buying Hobbits’ clothes, shoes for said holiday. Buying Samwise’s birthday presents – since his birthday falls on the most shut day of the year LOL. Buying Frodo’s present from Samwise.

And the worst thing. Booking an appointment for a haircut. On Friday.

I hate getting my hair cut. Hate it. I have terrible and unruly hair that confuses hairdressers and never looks the same after I’ve washed it, LOL

But Frodo finishes school half day on Friday and Grandma Gandalf will be here all afternoon. That should be enough time for the hairdreser to drag out the sickle… or on the more stubborn strands… the scythe… and set to work.

Writing: none done today.

… and the date looks like 15 April!

Cool – I’m back from Wales that day *grin*

I’ve done nothing today… well we went shopping for Samwise’s birthday presents and bought Frodo a View Master. He has hypermobility, so it could help with this fingers, I think. It’s fiddley but he does seem to be getting the hang of it. Shame they don’t have left-handed ones. Now that would be really useful for him, LOL