I am still living LOL

Yes I am still alive. :) I do appologise for not being on here more regular. My computer screen broke down and it has just been fixed, and we have been busy too.
Well Oliver has turned the big 5 and is at school. It is really strange only having one at home, feels like we are rattling around sometimes. Abby is quite lost at times as well, other times she is loving it IYKWIM. Olly had a birthday party the weekend before his birthday and he had alot of his wee friends around. I decided that we would have it in the morning instead of the afternoon. Lionel was quite pleased about that as he thought everyone would be gone by lunch and we could do some work in the afternoon. WRONG. Most people ended up staying till about 6.00 that night, but it was a excelent day LOL. Olly thought it was just wonderful and because his birthday was on the Wednesday we could do it all again. Not a bad idea, but he was just thinking of all the presents and the lollies, fizz etc LOL.
Been busy outside here, started staining the fences and I spent two hours doing very little. I'm not sure on the colour but decided that it will have to do as I am not spending another two hours going over the little bit I have just done. Its the thought of about a week plus on the fences left to do (that is if I don't water blast them, which I think they really need, but I am steadily talking my self out of it).
We also tried putting the house on fire about 4 weeks ago. Well we didn't try really, but boy we were lucky. Some how a fire started in the wall cavity of the open fire and when we came back there was this big burnt hole in the wall above the fire. A builder came and looked at it and couldn't believe that the whole house didn't go. Something that I would absolutely dread, imagine loosing all those scrap albums, the scrap supplies (Ohhhhh I would of cried over all that). I wouldn't of been worried about anything else, as it could all be replaced, although I was told by a dear friend (No names mentioned LOL) that I would have to take my camera so that I could get a photo of the house burning LOL. Would of made a great layout LOL.
We have about 900 ewes lambed and hope to start tailing next week, weather permitting. The next lot are due to start lambing on the 20th September then the last mob starts about the 7th october, so this year it is quite spread out, which has worked out really well as there won't be as much pressure on us for the tailing and if the weather is bad there is less lambs affected by it IYKWIM.
Well that is about it from this end of the country for the time being. I will be back soon, and remember "time may be a great healer but it's a lousy beautician."