Update on the Bucket List

Ok, so Miss Bags starts Big School in 5 and a half weeks, and that kinda marks the end of the "summer" (although I'm hoping for an Indian Summer to make up for the sogginess of July!) so I thought I'd check in and update the bucket list!

Here's a taste of what we've done so far:

Jumping in Muddy Puddles! - well, that was easy with all the rain we had... Great fun!



Have a waterfight! - Girls against boys it was, poor Wilburbeast didn't stand a chance; neither did poor, unsuspecting Crummy Hubby when he arrived home from work!

Send postcards! Ok they took 4 weeks to arrive from Spain, not just a case of mañana, more like el proximo mes!

We went to the beach in Marbs (didn't see any of the cast of of TOWIE thankfully!) built sandcastles and had ice cream!

Swimming! All day everyday on holiday!

Paddle in the ocean - well I went in.. No one else deigned to join me!

Planespotting! At the airport (and every opportunity!) we dropped Nonna and Pops at the airport and saw lots, saw lots while we were waiting for our flight, and last weekend when we saw friends, Miss Bags and her pals shouted "PLANE!" (or "AERO") every time they saw or heard one!

We've done lots of gardening, without it our garden would be like something out of day of the triffids, thanks to all the rain!

Watch the Olympics - what can I say?! Wow! I am proud to be British! Go Team GB!!!! But I must confess to a teensy crush on Ryan Lochte and SERIOUS abs envy of Jessica Ennis! Miss Bags has been spellbound by the swimming (she's too young to appreciate Lochte and is more interested in going SuperFast!), the gymnastics and the cycling! I think those stabilisers will be coming off this Summer!

And we're taking lots of photos!!

Other memorable events, that were not on the Bucket List this summer (so far!) are:

Miss Bags "graduated" from Pre-School. (sob!)

Miss Bags and I went school uniform shopping! (sob again!)

The Wilburbeast started to walk! No stopping him now!

Miss Bags and The Wilburbeast gained a new cousin! Yay!

We went to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard where great fun was had by all!

I finally got my cleaner, she's fab!

Signing off now, it's bath time, the Olympic Track Cycling is on, and there's more fun to be had tomorrow!

Hope you're all having a happy summer!

A Summer Bucket List

As I seem to have lists about lists at the moment, and in keeping with what seems to be a blogging tradition, I have been inspired to create a Summer Bucket List for the Crummy Household.

The purpose of this is twofold….

…."Mum, I’m bored” can be met with “Let’s do something on the bucket list!”

and

We make sure that we don’t fritter away our summer wasting time on that great British pastime of “pottering”. 

Not that pottering isn’t good once in a while, in fact I have accomplished a lot of the daily niff-naff and trivia that blights my daily life (cleaning out the fridge, damp-dusting the skirting boards and organising the toys) during a day spent pottering – but I would hate for the whole summer to pass us by….

“What summer?” I hear you cry…

Given that we have just had a month’s worth of rain in the last 24 hours, and there is no respite in sight, we could be forgiven for thinking that our summer has been and gone…… It’s a cruel, cruel summer and all that!   Which is why it’s all the more important to get up and go on those rare, fleeting, British summer days!

I’m not suggesting that this is a rigid to do list, or that each item can only be completed once, no – this is a Summer Wish List for 2012 to inspire us to live more, and laugh more!

After all, like life itself, “Summer’s lease has far too short a date….” (W.Shakespeare)

Things to do this summer with (or without) the weans!

*        BBQ

*        Go to Portchester Castle, and climb to the top of the keep

*        Walk in Hundred Acres

*        Zip-loc Painting (thanks Em!)

*        Have Afternoon Tea (home-made, or at a restaurant, with or without Champers!)

*        Meet friends for dinner

*        PYO Strawberries

*        Visit the New Forest (to see the ponies and picnic)

*        Go to the cinema

*        Watch some of the Olympics on TV

*        Dance in the rain

*        Have a waterfight

*        Send postcards

*        Drinks on the deck at sunset

*        Jump in “Muddy Puddles”

*        Visit Peppa Pig World

*        Go to the zoo

*        Go to the beach

*        Go swimming

*        Paddle in the ocean

*        Have a movie night

*        Have a picnic (indoor or outdoor)

*        Fingerpaint

*        Lifesize self portraits

*        Miss Bags to make a shoebox memory box for big-school

*        Teach Miss Bags to ride her bike without stabilisers

*        Make and play with Gloop

*        Create family footprints

*        Take LOTS of photos

*        Do some gardening

*        Take the Wilburbeast out on the back of our bikes

*        Do some planespotting (at the airport en route to our holiday in Spain)

*        Fill the photoframe (you know which one I mean, crummy hubby!!)

*        Make a Summer 2012 family scrapbook

*        Have a pub lunch (maybe here, or here?)

*        Enjoy and appreciate every second…..

Happy Summer everyone……