Activism

 Today it was just Emma and me swimming at the beach on our Saturday morning, but today was a bit different because straight afterwards we attended a protest march down in Seaford.  

The big deal is that the local politicians have not been voting the way their communities want them to. In this case, they are not voting to stop sewage going directly into the ocean and there is no excuse for that!

The whole thing was pretty well organized and over 200 people were at the Seaford 'splash point'. As you can see, it was a beautiful (and chilly) day. Here is a little news article about it:

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/23283883.xr-slam-maria-caulfield-mp-protests-lewes-newhaven-seaford/

Boys in the gym

Oscar and Tryfan have been using the gym a couple of times a week after school.  It's pretty fun having teenagers in the house.

Progress in the back

Things are coming along in the construction site out back! Not sure when it will be finished, but we are going through a lot of tea and coffee keeping the work crew going.

New car in the fam

For the past 10 years or so, we've been leasing cars on a 3 year cycle. Back about a year ago, we organized to get our next car to be an electric one. We really liked having the BMW i3 several years ago although it only had a range of about 60 miles so at the time we couldn't go very far.  When was that? 2014 or something?  Anyway, we agreed to get a Skoda Enyac electric car and today it arrived!  We've named him Eddy.

A new friend in the kitchen

For Christmas at work, we were given a voucher worth £40 to spend on some gifty type website.  I had forgotten about it until today, so I spent all of 15 minutes looking at the website and decided to put the voucher towards a radio! I'm so excited that it arrived today.  I plugged it in, and music came out!  I'm gonna put it in the kitchen so I can just switch it on and listen to the radio whenever I want. 

Thinking of our girl

Tonight we went to see Avatar: the way of water film at The Depot.  We went a bit early in order to have dinner, and even though it was over 3 hours long, it was so good!  We had amazing food at the Depot cafe although it didn't feel complete without Rhiannon there.  We asked the waiter to take a photo to show Rhiannon that we were missing her.

A little squeak

This morning Rhodri and I were actually both just sitting on the couch at a reasonable hour of a Saturday morning, reading the paper and drinking coffee, and we both heard a tiny little squeak.  Whaaat?

We checked the uber-sticky trap under the sofa, and voila: little mousey who has been evading us for months was stuck.  Poor little fellow. It was sad that he was so stuck and would not survive. Rhodri put him out of his misery, but actually it was a big moment because we have been trying to catch this guy (or girl!) for so long.  It has been fun getting to know the rodent exterminator lady Harriet.

Advertising campaign

 Our girl has been featured on an advertisement for Prin!

Christmas demob and dining out

After getting back yesterday from Austria, we had a day of organizing stuff and demobilizing Christmas. Its always sad doing this, but it has to be done at some point.  This was a pretty awesome Christmas season, between the family crowd at the house and then the chalet, and now the party is over...

But then tonight we went for a nice dinner out on the town (only Haywards Heath, but still, OUT!). We had a good time and it felt really nice to be just us four together.

Happy New Year 2023

We had an early start but no troubles getting to the Salzburg airport and then traveling home.  In the afternoon Evie came over so that she and Rhiannon could spend time together and do crafty new yearsy projects.

Off to a good start, I guess!