In the morning when I was doing my baking I did it alone as Scarlett (who is my usual baking companion) was busy playing lego and k’nex with Davies. I popped outside to hang some washing out while the brownies were in the oven and heard the oven door open and then close. Then Scarlett …
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Unexpected Tuesday
We were supposed to be meeting Tasha, Toby and Vinnie at the park today and although it was bright and sunny this morning I wasn’t really in the mood for it so I was quite relieved when I sent her a text to arrange times and she texted back to say could we leave it …
Conspicuous Monday
I realised late last night that I’d cocked up on when I was expecting a payment to go into our bank account so had a sleepless night worrying about that and managed to be up and ready to go with the children trailing limply behind me at 830am so we could get to Horsham in …
Digging the weekend away
Yesterday morning I worked. It was briefly exciting when all the computers crashed for the whole of West Sussex libraries and we had to write everything down. We then went into a ‘fallback’ state where the computers could cope with basic transactions and it all came back on again after about half an hour so …
Kind and helpful
said in the chanty style of the Rainbow promise complete with the little jump at the end :). A lazy start to the morning given Davies and I’s late night. Scarlett came in the bathroom as I was chopping random bits off my hair. I’ve decided to let it grow again – for now, I …
Who’s happy? Shall we sing if you’re happy and you know it?
Off to work for me today. An odd mix of staff in the morning including the lovely but incredibly dizzy part time librarian who always forgets obvious things such as the fact we lend out books :rolls:. We also have a new member of staff who I suspect won’t last and is very tiring to …
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Disconcerting
We had a plan to meet Tasha at the park today but we woke to rain and Tasha had already sent me a text to say ‘forget the park, come straight here for lunch at 12ish instead’ which left us the morning free to slob about. In direct contrast to other pretenders to HE the …
Was sorting photos
And just stumbled across this one and it made me go all gooey 🙂
Back from the brink
I continued hating everyone and extended it to the rest of the real world too ;). I did walk away from the internet this morning though and we were up at the allotment at 10ish. I had some stuff to get in the ground but decided to come over all new age and worry about …
I think I might….
Need to stay away from the internet today. So far everything I have read everywhere I have been has pissed me off. I want to reach into the screen and grab people by the scruff of their necks and shake them. In the small rational corner of my brain I am assuming that it must …
The trials of childhood
Today was the monthly Pulborough Brooks Home Ed meet up. We missed last month’s as it was while we were camping so it was good to go along today. Tasha had mentioned that they go to Pulborough Brooks quite often so I’d told her about the monthly meet and offered to give them a lift …
Weekend of Women
I had a lovely weekend with some online friends from Feminist Parents. It was our second such weekend, not as many of us made it as on the first occasion and indeed that first one had been so perfect it had a lot to live up to really. There was something of a comedy of …
Sigh
It’s Friday! 🙂 A whole day later than it should have been due to having been all Friday-ish with Ali yesterday but Friday nonetheless. I was off being Nicola from 9-5. It’s slightly fraught at work at the moment for my direct boss, Yvonne. She is managing on herself and 3 established staff (of which …
In brief
As I’m tired and I’m working tomorrow and somehow it’s already tomorrow! This morning I made a few phonecalls and various other adminny tasks and then packed up some food and water and we headed up to the allotment. We got there just after 11am and it was by far the busiest I’ve seen it …
Long Old Wednesday
Work for me this morning and today I was at Shoreham library which is the next town along. As part of my development review my boss asked if I’d like to go and do the odd shift at other libraries and this was one of those shifts. It was fine; I prefer Lancing and Wednesdays …
Things we did today
I overslept this morning having turned over and gone back to sleep at about 7am when I heard Ady and Scarlett being all cheerful in the morning with a disgusted tsk. They are the resident larks, Davies and I are the owls. So I was somewhat wrongfooted when the phone rang just after 9am and …
So much for getting out of the house
Aside from going out of the back door to feed the chickens and out of the front door to collect the kerbside recycling blue boxes in from the pavement I’ve not left the house again today 🙁 . I pottered about this morning, drinking tea, sorting washing and occassionally coming to comment on the post …
Feeling middle aged
Today, on a Sunday, in the rain, we went to garden centres. This is so something I never thought I’d be doing 😆 . In fairness what we weren’t doing was the mindless, purposeless wandering round because our lives are empty of meaning and we think looking at scented candles, overpriced vases, allegedly ‘home made’ …
No particular place to go
Ady has been to a stag-day today. Gone are the days of a bit of a knees up the night before you get married apparently – these days it’s all about weekends in Dublin, scubadiving or other ways of spending a couple of hundred quid before you even start buying wedding presents or hiring suits. …
Green Fair
The date for the Sustainability Centre Green Fair for 2009 has just been put up on their website for Sunday May 10th. We’re going to book camping from Friday 8th to Monday 11th – anyone want to join us?