Now that Ben has been poorly for 2 weeks in a row he has developed some bad habits!! So last night I ignored his crying after his usual coughing fit, however he continued for an hour and a half until I gave in at 10:30pm. Sure enough he came downstairs and thought it was play time!! The sooner this cold goes the better. Mark only had 3 hours sleep as he is full of it still and then had to get up for work at 6.

Ben however remains a bag of beans during the day no matter how much I try to wear him out with crawling games!! Today he decided to look inside the washing machine, he spied the open door from the opposite end of the hallway and went like the clappers to get to it before I closed it. He discovered that putting things in the drum makes a noise so thats where that name came from, nothing at all to so with the shape of it! Once he popped his head out I realised that he had duck in there so maybe he was just giving him a wash!!

The river is very high and we have the white vans on alert and some diggers down there, but I don't think it will flood I just think they are much more cautious now.

The death trap did not bring sweet rewards, they offered us £20-30 pounds depending if it had good tyres on it. I nearly spluttered!!!! Good tyres it's got good everything it just doesn't want to work. Kind of like a posh housewife!! Every cloud has a silver lining though and Peter and Brenda are kindly letting us buy their car off them and they are bringing forward the purchase of their next car. (Thankyou guys xxx)

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