is for your delight. Today they announced their new butlins ambassadors for this year. Massive congratulations to all who have been chosen for this season. You will have a fabulous time. Here is some of what they have got coming to them from the incredible Butlins resorts!
We had been expecting this.
Things were not looking good. There was an anxiety in the air, a tension and just a little bit of palpable panic.
It was one of those days when you don’t go far, you stay and hover like moth attracted to the light.
Except this wasn’t light, it was dark.
It was a darkness that was threatening, rising on the horizon like a storm, blue clouds slowly turning black and joining together and moving faster.
It happened quickly…..as it often did.
Fast.
His heart rate drifted, colour quickly changing. movement silenced and still.
Smiles disappear from the parents faces as they glance from the monitors to his face to my face.
I move quickly but quietly, smiling reassurance, words hushed but firm.
‘i just need to get next to him if i can for a minute’
They move. So fast. pushing chairs back like they have suddenly been charged with electricity.
Jumping aside.
I check, listen, watch.
Suction.
Extra breaths.
Waiting…
Watching.
No change.
Quietly i say ‘I just need to get some help’
Reaching for the red button.
and Action!
Doors burst open. Quick words are exchanged. A plan begins.
Settings are altered and a tube is changed.
More breaths. Counting slowly and waiting…
watching.
exchanged glances over the bed. Quick words to the parents stood paralysed at the end of the bed. Do they hear us? Im not sure. Their eyes search mine for reassurance, pleading..
is he going to be okay?
We wait.
I say quietly in my head ‘ not today little man, please please not today’
Might have even been a prayer.
An eternity frozen in 30 seconds……
colour returned slowly
numbers began to rise. Heart rate picking up.
chest moving.
Panic is over. Fear has passed by on this 25th day.
This was not going to be that day for this family.
This was not going to be that day.
Another day going AWOL from nursery last week saw us going to a strawberry farm to pick/eat some strawberries. The way it seemed to work was that i picked the strawberries and the girls ate them! Hmmmm. They were a little bit put off in the strawberry patches as there were a lot of prickles.
But the redcurrant bushes in their long military style lines were a much better hit. Easy to reach and pick, pretty and luminesence in the lovely sunshine and tons of space to run up and down before a quick trip on the tractors in the greenhouse which GOOD LORD…was stifling. I mean i can take a bit of heat but wowsers..i was begging the girls to finish up and saying in a manic voice ‘shall we go and get an ice-cream!!”
Was really fun watching my two little girls just be buddies together. We are going to miss her in september when she heads off to school!
I have something to tell you…
I have to admit to it.
I bought a Taylor Swift album from itunes…
*runs and hides*
Before any credibility i have disappears down the drain, there are a number of reasons..one being my daughters like a few of her tracks, two i heard the duet she has done with Ed sheeran on the radio and thought ‘oooh who is that singing with Ed Sheeran and three it was a fiver.
So lots of reasons that are totally legit.
yes?
good. 😉
But the truth of it is, i think i have discovered a little tiny liking for country music. Only little but it might actually be there. like my achilles heel. 😉
The signs have been obvious…
watching Nashville…
singing along to Lady Antebellum songs
and now this…
Taylor Swift! I had to actually google her to discover who she is. I thought she was a X factory person.
Eh i am so down with the kids eh? the country kids! pah!
So this is the song that i first heard and liked. I like this video even more…not because of the content but of the way that it is lit. Such beautiful soft, hazy lighting that i love so much. That is the sad geek photographer in me. But it is a cute video. Though seriously they want us to believe those two are old enough to have 9 year old kids? hmmmm.
and seriously those two little kids have a better relationship than a lot of adults!!!
the other song is a break up attitude type song that you have probably heard on the radio but my girls knew this one before it appeared on my itunes library and can i just tell you the fear it strikes in my heart when my 9 year old daughter struts around the house, chucking her hip out and flicking her hands and getting all ‘like…EVERH!’
My husband is building the tower as we speak!
