Work all day for me today and every minute dragged today 🙁

There is a new roof being put on the library which has already run over it’s schedule by about 4 weeks (and counting) and has been blighted by very heavy rain which has leaked through in places where it wasn’t waterproofed, ruined 100s of £s worth of books, soaked flooring and shelving and generally made it a rather chaotic place to be working for the last month or so. Coupled with one colleague leaving and another being incredibly hard work to be around it’s not proving the calming, me-time opportunity is usually is. Scarlett is also having a particularly clingy phase (I’m guessing to do with Davies’ Badger camp on some level) so about half the time I head off to work in the morning it’s leaving a crying daughter behind me. Hard and heartwrenching, even if I am leaving her with her own Daddy… 🙁

Today started in the back office cashing up tills and doing the banking and the office stank of tar from the roof. I actually quite like the chemically smell but I started to feel quite queasy and was then feeling like I may have a temperature too. I went to the bank and came back and sat quietly in the staff room for a few minutes to recover and seriously considered asking to go home. A cup of tea at breaktime restored me somewhat and aside from sneezing a lot and a mild sore throat (which could be hot environment / fumes) and feeling very tired I seem to be okay now.

I did Baby Rhyme time which I have to confess to being very bored with now and trying to find ways to entertain and amuse myself during it. Last week I took requests from the small children and we sang Jingle Bells. Today one of the little boys brought me a book about a magical pet shop so I used it as a prop to sing Old McDonald with the animals within it – we had a monkey, snake, mouse, crocodile and a couple of other random and very non-farmyardy animals, much to the amusement of my colleagues who quite like to join in from the counter on the other side of the wall :).

I had my usual wander round the charity shops in my lunch break but refrained from purchasing today. Then the afternoon just seemed to drag and drag. I did manage to get a free copy of Mika’s album and a copy of as ex stock which I was very pleased with – Willy Nilly has long been a favourite story to tell here so it’s nice to have our own copy :).

I came home to find Tarly and my Mum in the garden while Davies was hamabeading. All seemed well but after Mum had gone they moaned that she hadn’t played with them and when they’d gone out (walked to the park) she’d been trying to tell them they didn”t need suncream but they’d insisted 😯 Wish she wouldn’t be so crap about things like that and am very glad the children are consciencious even in the face of argument from the so called responsible adult! 🙁

I did the kids some tea and then got on with the last assignment of an online course I took on and have been ignorning but the deadline for was midnight tonight. I’d already pled swine flu as a reason for an extension ;). I managed to get it all done and submitted so assuming if it needs resubmitting that will still be allowed to be done out of time I think I scraped through that one.

I took a break to read the children a couple of chapters of Mr Gum. I’ve been trying to find dates for seeing Andy Stanton, either at a book signing or at one of the various festivals around the country. He’d doing Edinburgh and also a very interesting looking Kids Litfest in Bath in September but his date for that clashes with Davies’ YAC meeting which he’s really looking forward to which is a shame as I had half a plan to have a weekend away with just Davies which would have been lovely. I was also cross to see Andy Stanton had been in Portsmouth earlier this month and we could have seen him there. Grr.

I also stopped working for a bath, which Davies and Scarlett both joined me in the bathroom for and did comedy dancing to Ady’s music from the kitchen, which seemed to be mostly Barry Manilow tonight, while he cooked dinner. It was amusing and charming, not really restful and relaxing though ;). Ady cooked a lovely dinner and we watched Seven Pounds, well Ady watched most of it then went to bed and I kept half an eye on most of it and then avidly watched the end, crying as I went. Don’t know that I’d recommend it as such but I do think Will Smith is a fine actor.