Today…

I must get the following stuff done:

the 3 CVs that arrived in the post this morning (woohoo) – done one, which is probably even more than I would have hoped for actually. I’ve got until Thursday night to get the other two done so one a day is fine, and I’ll probably get another one done later tonight actually.

get dinner on (slow cooker chicken, first time of trying it) done it – used a variation on this recipe and am now trying to think of something different to serve it with? mini jacket potatoes stuffed with something? some sort of flavoured rice? Hmm…

send confirmation letter back for venue for new HE group (very late! :oops:) have completed form and put in envelope with covering handwritten letter – which is in very poor handwriting but my printer is out of action until I work out whether it can be hooked up to the whole wireless set up. Waiting by the front door to be posted.

email to local newsletter about new HE group – all done 🙂

post to yahoo group for new HE group to galvanise people to action for bringing stuff – done

email local yahoo lists about new HE group to drum up any extra bodies for next week – done

look into what BT option we are on as we have changed phone call supplier and need to be sure we are not paying for something with BT that we don’t want anymore – done – and reduced the BT cost from £26.50 per month to £12 per month. As the new company promises to reduced our call charges – which actually are very small anyway – and they gave me a £20 voucher off my electricity bill I think that qualifies as a frugal move for the day 🙂

email my friend Mel about next week – done

email my Granny about next week – done

work out how long it’s going to take to get to C&H’s and see if it is possible to get a hairdressers appointment first thing Saturday morning – two and a half hours according to route finder, weather looks to be cloudy but fine and I’ve booked a hairdressers appointment for 9am, which means I expect we’ll be arriving between 1 & 2 pm at C&H’s- me with swishing hair which I expect many compliments on please 😉

decide what I’m wearing for CV meal out tomorrow night

get Davies to choose which of his plasticine creations from yesterday he wants to enter in to the competition and take photos of it – almost done. He’s chosen one and dictated the details needed for the competition entry to me. It was a ‘make a new friend for Wallace and Gromit’ competition using a packet of plasticine sent through with the competition. He’s chosen one, and named it, given it characteristics and told me why W&G would like it/him. The battery is flat on the camera though so I’ve bunged it on charge and will take a pic when it is back in action – after that it passes over to Ady to get it printed off next time he is near Costco.

gather together some resources / links / ideas for learning a bit about Germany. D is covering it as the theme for Badgers this term (Global Badger badge) and as he is pretty much the youngest there he is likely to know the least about it as I don’t think we’ve ever talked about anything German / Germany related – it’d be nice if he didn’t get all his new information from a source that’s not me (yes I do know how that sounds and yes I do know I’m a control freak 😉 ) but it can’t do him any harm to be a bit ahead of the game either can it. – made a start – created a page in the side bar and have del-ici-ous’d them too for future reference. Will also grab a book or two from the library when we’re next there too, we have a full weeks grace as no badgers next week due to another bank holiday.

Leave the children alone while they are playing together happily, engage with them when they are asking me to – possibly my biggest challenge of the day eh? – yep pretty much achieved that too actually. There was shouting but it was justified 🙂