Lincoln actually played with Halle Orchestra at the the Bridgewater Hall Manchester, he likes the Saxophone and has stuck with it to the point that he got to do this amazing thing today. He want to give up the guitar even though he got a B+ for it this week but he prefers Sax so I have asked if I can have his guitar because I loved the little bit of progress I made when I tried it a couple of months ago. He makes me proud and I hope the saxophone keeps his interest and it is his way into loving music for his whole life!

To top a great day he went to Youth Club and learned CPR and the Hiemlich manoeuvre…all in a days work for our Linco

Went to get a load of wood this morning and used Jamie’s car because I couldn’t wait for a delivery next week and the weather has been so great this week I wanted to see if I could get the roof joists fitted so I could perhaps get it at least weather “resistant” so it does not get too wet. Anyway I loaded 14 3.6m lengths of 3x2s in the car at Howarths Timber in Northwich and drove home what I thought was slowly enough but went over a small bump and the windscreen split as one of the pieces bounced against it. I was so annoyed with myself because I didn’t need to have the wood straightaway I was just inpatient and now it’s cost me £105 and a Saturday morning getting it fixed.

Progress on the shed itself went well today I got all the roof joists made and learned a lot about my Dewalt saw and what it can do, like trench cutting and repetitive accurate angled cuts amongst other things I also noticed that the blade was damaged and likely I would benefit from a new blade and achieve better cuts too so that will be on the next Screwfix shopping list. I love woodwork and I am really enjoying this project and hope to actually get the roof done in the next couple of weeks to the point where I have waterproof membrane on top?

Reagan is noticeably growing up into a “teenager” she is so beautiful and takes care of her appearance with help an advice from her Mom The new thing at the moment is self tanning and both her and Mommy have applied it, but tonight Reagan applied some unsupervised to her face and I advised her to be careful because it won’t come off if you do it wrong, even though she’d done a good job I just don’t want her to have to live with a tanning mistake at school

At 10am nothing happened I was supposed to get an email supplying a link to allow me to buy tickets to Wembley to see the Jaguars play the Broncos but nothing no email…panic set in, what do I do?

A note appeared on the Jags site saying there was a technical issue and the pre-sale ticket email will be sent out later, but we weren’t told when?

The email arrived at 1:10 as I sat there refreshing the inbox I saw it straightaway so I clicked and registered as it said to do but also said the tickets won’t go on sale until 3pm. Just after 2pm I thought I would try the ticket page and it let me in but in a queue, and there were only 4 people in front of me. I told Jamie, who had also registered and by the time she logged on to the page at 2:30ish she was 2686th in the queue.

At 3pm on the dot I was let on to the ticket site and tried to pick 3 seats and buy them but I could not see a basket and the seats expired Fuuuuuck! If I thought I was panicking at 10am I was sweating and my blood pressure was sky high now Jamie was now about to be let onto the site and needed to know whether she needed to buy tickets, I said no just wait because I adjusted the resolution of my browser window and spotted the basket icon top right and proceeded to buy 3 tickets in block 124 on the 40 yard line on the Broncos side of the field…

I pressed checkout and confirmed the purchase of 3 adult tickets (I did not get the option for a child ticket for Lincoln but by this time I just wanted to have 3 tickets) and it said congratulations you have bought 3 tickets for £445.52 slightly more than I had planned for but I am just glad I got tickets!

So a weekend in London with Jamie & Lincoln for a couple of days of self indulgence on my part and I get to watch the Broncos live for the first-time since 2009 but we don’t talk about that game…

Today could not have started any better, breakfast in bed consisting of a bacon butty and a brew served by Reagan followed by Lincoln with thee best gift ever, an antique saw with “Dads Shed” painted onto the blade, oh and a £100 gift voucher for Howarth Timber

Perfect!

We then went to watch Mommy sing on the main FAB stage and she didn’t disapoint singing a solo beautifully even after being rudely interrupted and having to start the song again.

Spent yhe rest of the day building my shed and I mean literally the rest of the day from 12:30 until 21:15 when I ran out of screws lol

Thank you family for being mine and easily the best I could ever wish for!

Sat in the car at 11 oclock at night waiting for Jamie to arrive from London….in Birmingham was not how I saw today panning out?

On the hottest day of the year with the tempature around 28? I expected to be writing about Lincolns sports day. I watched all the year 4 5 & 6s try their best in sweltering heat, it was on the field so once Iocated Linc I was able to follow him and his class around and watch him have fun

Cricket was a big ask after such a hot sports day but both Lincoln and Reagan were keen to go so off we went. The temperature had cooled significantly so it was too bad although Reagan sat on the grass then rubbed her eyes and brought in a bad hay-fever reaction which meant her eyes swelled up.

We were supposed to go pick Mommy up from the station afterwards but she informed us that due to damaged overhead cabling she was stuck along with thousands of others in London. Her and 2 colleagues managed to get a packed sweaty train to Birmingham Moor Street and would arrive there at 23 15 but we’re not sure what they could do after that to get home, so I said I would meet them their and bring them home.

After dropping the children off at Nannies I set off to get them and found I couldn’t get on the M6 at Middlewich or Sandbach so had to drive to Stoke and get on the A500 and join the motorway from there but with plenty of time I didn’t stress just drove and here I am sat writing this blog watching the Birmingham nightlife pass by….

With Jamie down in London I had to ask Nannie if she would babysit Reagan and Lincoln for a couple of hours, while I went to play pool. She gladly agreed to come over here knowing I wouldn’t be late and that both children are pretty easy now, but not quite old enough to leave on a school night when they need to be in bed at a certain time. They would probably be OK but I am not confident enough and that may be doing them a disservice because they are both good kids but I would not quite be able to relax if they didn’t have someone sit with them yet?

Nannie said on the way back to her house “Isn’t Reagan growing up, I can see she’s changing!” and “By goodness he can talk can’t he, I don’t think he was quiet all night, telling me about the play he’s in and stuff!” I smiled and agreed at how she pretty much summed both children up in a sentence each.

We lost at pool but I managed to win my frame in a 6 2 defeat…