The Bathtime Blog

Monday, 14th May 2007

The sodden buds of May

What a couple of weeks we’ve had. Having enjoyed the lovely sunshine in April, May has turned out to be quite literally a washout, hence the lack of activity on The Bathtime Blog. Apologies to my avid readers, OK, reader. Actually, I’ll have you know, the blog received its first visitor from China yesterday so welcome. Likewise, someone on the east coast of the US of A has checked me out on at least 11 occasions according to my clustermap (thank you Harry, the cheques in the post, sorry ‘check’ as you guys say).

So, what have I been up to in the rain. Last week I went to Pleasurewood Hills. Daddy had assured us that the forecast showed lots of sunshine rays amongst the clouds. Uhm. We got drenched. So much so that I only managed to capture this action packed picture of me and daddy on the dodgems.

I am there, I promise, on the far side going left. Yes, that’s me under daddy’s right armpit. I’m clearly going faster than everyone else because I’m more blurred than them. We had a great time despite the rain, at least we didn’t have to queue for any of the rides. We went for mummy’s sake really, she goes just crazy for a thrill. Which leads me nicely onto the weekend when Mummy and Daddy celebrated their 5th wedding anniversary. Daddy even brought mummy some flowers.

I think daddy was looking forward to a thrill of his own. Sadly I put pay to that because that evening I was sick 3 times all over my bed, Herbert and Jimmy, 2 sets of pajamas, 1 pillow, 2 duvet covers and 3 towels. I ended up sleeping with mummy and so daddy had to go and sleep down stairs. Unlucky!

Unfortunately it meant that we were not able to go to Cambridge as we’d planned to meet up with Uncle Jon and Auntie Nick. Apparently, we were all going to go to mummy’s favourite restaurant, Cafe Rouge. Daddy went to Cambridge for his tutorial but I stayed at home with mummy. Happy anniversary!

On Sunday I was feeling much better and we got the play dough out and made Scoop, Lofty and Muck from Bob the Builder.

OK, so daddy might have helped a little – he made Bob.

Well, that just about wraps it up for now. Hopefully the weather will pick up soon and I can start to do some more adventureous activities and visit more interesting places. In the meantime, let me leave you with a picture of the wisteria at the front of my house as it happens to be at its peak.

Ah, the darling buds of May.