5 in the house

Robert moved in with us temporarily on Saturday.  He's had to move out of his flat as it's been sold and instead of rushing into finding somewhere he felt it was better to take his time and save some money by living with us.  The kids are delighted and Tom has monopolised Robert the entire weekend so I think Robert might be upping his flat-hunting efforts next week!  

We had a bye in netball which meant that for once I was able to watch Tom play rugby.  Much to his teams disgust they were playing an all-girl rugby team but once the girls had scored their first try within a minute of the game starting the boys decided that they probably were ok to tackle.  Tom was on top form for his game as the shots below show. 

He gets the ball....

....and makes a break for the try line

Sadly he got tackled just before he reached the try line but his team won the match all the same.  

Jules has been ill all weekend with man flu which means he's feeling dreadful but refusing to take any medicine to help him along!  On top of that he has a pile of work to do so he's spent most of the weekend rugged up sitting on the sofa trying to get through his work.  We were due at the Duthies for dinner on Saturday night but I went on my own with the kids whilst Jules had a very early night.  Tess was delighted to play with Scarlett but poor Tom felt a little outnumbered and sat with the grown ups teaching himself how to play Solitaire - such a great game.  He reckons he got down to just 2 marbles but we weren't properly supervising so I'm not entirely convinced!