Yay for chickens! I wish we could have some here. Which breed are you getting?

Its Monday again, yesterday we went to see Dad and my sister was also there. My Mum is in hospital with a kidney stone, all a bit worrying but not the worst news. Today it's just me and the baby, who is now huge and not really a baby any more. She now has wellies. But still not quite walking and still not quite teeth. I will take her to play group in the afternoon.

Just went to the supermarket with my Mum and the baby. I've torn a ligament in the top of my left foot hefting the baby around and I need to rest it really. Fairly uneventful day so far.

I'm going to playgroup with the baby after lunch. Have had a fairly quiet morning: put on a casserole, picked some flowers, bought some baby shoes (more complicated than I thought!) and talked to a recruiter.

I applied for a boring job this morning, hoping boring will be good. I don't like the idea of excitement at work any more it makes me twitchy. I had to do it today as the deadline is tomorrow, but it's Sunday and now I don't feel at all relaxed. Might make some coffee and try and catch some TV before my daughter wakes up.

A PBW: I'm glad you made it to carol singing, I love stuff like this, even more as time goes by. I took the baby to church last Sunday and we met a lot of people from our area.

Today I'm not sure what I'll do. I've been awake since midnight. I tried to throw two people off our property the other day who were trampling around in the garden. I tried to insist that they shouldn't be on our property without permission, they explained that they were trying to catch an escaped duck. I then saw this very small and ordinary looking duck and got really angry. It's not an excuse in my opinion. They were dashing around on the veg beds and near the beehives. They eventually left in their own time. So I've been feeling pretty shocked and upset about that. Plus yesterday my Mum took a photo on her google smartphone with myself and the baby in it. I've expressly said I'm not happy for anyone to take photos on smartphones since day 1 and only use offline devices to take photos of the baby. I know it sounds eccentric but it's my decision. She knows I'm furious with her because I caught her and made her delete it. I hope she actually did. I saw her sneaky expression when she was doing it and it makes me feel really sad and let down by her. But my daughter has a weekly relationship with her. So anyway, Christmas not going well so far!

Lovely ideas thank you! When I lived in London I used to navigate without a smartphone because I hate having 'location services' switched on. But the bus stops have maps in them as you say and they can be very useful. I can agree that navigating in London is a sport in itself. Infact, navigating public transport anywhere can be seen as a challenge and actually pretty good fun.

Hello all, I'm going to wash up and then go over to my Mum's house with the baby. We are going to look through Muma nd Dad's Chrsitmas decorations and share some things.

Beldarna, your kitchen sounds amazing! I can imagine a gorgeous scent.

@PBW I also had a festive fiddle putting the hand-tied bows on my Christmas tree so I did one at a time in between other things.

This is a goldmine! Thank you! So many games 'physical' I've never heard of so I will have a lot of fun looking all of those up. Just a quick one I love the idea of going to a huge empty sports field and playing frisbee in the dark. That would be such a blast.