Making very fantastic lemonade

Yesterday the girls and I decided to make lemonade. We have not made it before and Emily and Tamsyn had great fun squeezing the lemons. I think it will become a firm favourite in our house, although not so often as the amount of sugar that went into it was frightening! We have decided that we should make it for picnics and for birthdays and party's and any other Lang gathering. It was so easy to do and tasted so very yummy.

I'm sat here watching Comic Relief in a state of shock and disbelief!!
Watching how parents and grandchildren go withought food and therefore can't take their HIV medication just so that their children, grandchildren can live!!!
 How children of Emily and Samuel's age in Africa are bringing up their younger brothers and sisters because their parents have died!
How centres in this country help young people who have tried to take their lives in the most horrific circumstances and who support them to rebuild their lives and turn it into something positive!!
I'm sat here in my very warm and cosy home watching something so hard to comprehend. Watching children in need of urgent help. Families in crisis whilst my yummy children are sleeping in comfy beds with full tummies, knowing that tomorrow when they wake up all will be well, all will be fun and all will be the same as it was today!


It all seems a bit silly in light of the films on telly I have just watched but to raise money I have
just come back from a night out at the very fabulous Cowslip learning to crochet!! I paid ten pounds to spent the night with some very clever ladies making the most beautiful things. The children wore non school uniform and took in their pounds. We donated and played games in TKMax whilst shopping and I also bought four Emma Bridgewater mugs made especially to raise money for Comic Relief!
The final nights total has just been announced on the telly and its a record breaking £75,107,851 the most ever raised in 25 years!!!


Jessie J did something a bit more drastic than crochet!!!! she now has no hair!!! good on you girl xx

Im going to carry on watching through tears........!

Fairy alert

In the half term we took Tamsyn and Daisy to a photograph studio in Tintagel. They create the most wonderful pictures of all things magical and fairy like. The girls didn't know they were going and decided it was the best surprise treat ever eeeek xx

Back from the ........

It's been age's and age's and age's and I have found my way back here and want to write again. Millions of things have gone on over the last five months! Some of them fantastic, some amazing, some silly, some horrid, some just really busy, some relaxed, some trying to escape, some just the best and very very yummy but always very Lang like hehe.
Dad's birthday fund raising went really very well. Andi, Ben and I completed the Grim Challenge in Aldershot. 8 and a 1\2 miles of running through mud and freezing cold water. I actually loved it even though I managed to badly sprain my ankle which is still causing me some problems even now! The run and my usual open house party on his actual birthday day managed to raise £1235.00 which is the very best yet and the most amazing total.

At the end of the race xxx

Mr poorly ankle !!!

Christmas was lots of fun (the lead up to it completely frantic as usual and all a little bit last minute!!). I had Granny Sandra and Granny Mary join us as well as Liz, Stew, Tom Ruby and Liz's mum. My table looked fabulous with all my new Emma bridgewater joy plates and bowls and packed with 12 of us all sat around it. I loved it all and the day was as chaos and as fun as it could be. Far too much to eat as usual and the children getting far too much ....... as usual!! the holidays went like a blur
I got the most fabulous tea pot ever eeeek

We are now in March and the sun over the last two days has decided to come out. The difference walking out of the house in the morning with the sun shining is amazing. Not having to fight your way to the car in the wind and the rain is an utter blessing. Its making me think that we need to tidy up the garden and make it look pretty again. I think this weekend I am going to organise the troops and clean the courtyard, cut the grass and get Master Lang painting the summer house. I think it's time to give it a good clean out and put up some curtains to make it nice for Tamsyn and her friends to play in. The front garden is going to take a little more thinking about and some hard landscaping so can wait for when Ben is around to help!

Im going to try and remember to post lots of photos of our adventures and whatever we are up to. I loved looking through older posts and looking at the book I had published of previous years and hope to make another one at the end of this year to keep to read when I'm old and can't remember !!