Rocks and roll…

I’ve been very here but absent today trying to get some CVs done all day and not really getting very far. One of those days where on reflection I failed to demonstrate any of those time management or workload prioritising skills I have been waxing lyrical about for other people all day as I kept sort of hoping the children would let me alone to get on with it and stop pestering me for arse wiping, drinking getting, banana unpeeling, mediation over who’s turn it was next (;-) to A!) but they never did. What of course I should have done was given them a couple of hours of attention, or even perhaps a half hour block of it so that they didn’t spend all day waiting for it when it never happened. Ah well. I finally sent the last CV across by email at 11.30pm which if nothing else has distracted me from the fact I have sat through two episodes of Lost (needed to watch next weeks tonight on E4 as we’ll be in a field of course next week) on my own with no Ady to cuddle up to afterwards. 🙁

In other news I gathered up all the scattered about library books from round the house this morning and we took them all back. The children went into the childrens’ section while I was checking them all back in and Davies reappeared beaming with a dvd of The Emperors New Groove 2/ Kronks New Groove which is the sequel to the much watched film from last family film night and would likely have been the one we looked out for this month if we’d not postponed it. So we borrowed that and they both chose a new pile of books. The library has installed a computer in the childrens’ section just like the main one in town set up with kiddie games and a chunky, modified colourful keyboard and mouse. I’m not a huge fan of kiddie-fied things like that really as both of mine have been more than able to use a proper mouse and to touch keys even if they don’t know what’s on them before they were three and prior to that I don’t think they really need to be on computers anyway, but Tarly sat and worked her way very proudly and methodically through all the levels on whatever game it was so Davies and I sat and looked at an Usborne inside your body flap book . I tried to persuade him to have a go at reading one of the early reader books but none of them grabbed him.

I’d planned a quick look round the charity shops but Davies needed a wee so we cut our trip short and came home for lunch instead. Much viewing of the film (three times I believe!) ensued with lots of drawing being done whilst it was on. I remember doing that when I was little and I suppose I am not so different now sitting with a laptop on while ‘watching’ most TV shows. Scarlett painted my toenails – 3 times 🙄 and played with various toys in and out of her bedroom.

We watched signs being put up all along the road outside our house yesterday to say there would be loose chips and no road markings so we knew some road resurfacing was going to happen and sure enough this afternoon men stood outside with STOP/GO signs stopping all the traffic whilst a parade of vehicles and men in fluorescent vests came along and did their stuff. There was a tar (or whatever the black sticky surface was) spreader pouring out a thick layer with steam gushing off it, closely followed by a double ended lorry with a complicated large stone spreader, a roller following behind that and then a gritter spreading finer stones bringing up the rear. So we watched that for a good half an hour or so doing both sides of the road which was quite interesting from the comfort of the sofa.

They will obviously be back for further finishing including white line painting so hopefully we’ll be home to catch that going on too. We’ve had the windows open all day and as there is still loads of loose gravel I have spend many idle moments when I should have been writing CVs fantasicing about being the daughter of very rich parents or having married well (somehow the fantasy doesn’t work nearly so well if I am self made rich!) living in a very grand house with a gravel drive. I have explained the busy-ness of the gravel drive having cars going past almost constantly as the many deliveries of my internet shopping, fresh flowers, handmade chocolates, chilled champagne, frothy, frilly underwear and a constant stream of friends arriving to help me eat, drink and be merry :-).

Ady’s rung me at least seven times today including a final forlorn call after eating his dinner alone in a hotel restaurant to see what I’d had for my dinner. A very unsuccessful pasta with cheese and bacon sauce which I made the cheese sauce way too thick for so was only able to eat about a third. The new ‘routine’ worked a dream again with both of them in their beds shortly after 7pm. Tarly fell asleep before 8.30pm while I was in the bath, I could hear Davies playing but at 9pm when I went up to check him he was asleep. Lazy buggerdom has all but infiltrated every area of our lives! 😉

Tomorrow is Home Ed meet day and Julie is keen to move location from the park to the pick your own farm, which is a good idea but I’m waiting for the others to reply to my suggesting it email to see whether we do or not. Either way there’ll be outdoor dashing about for the children which will be nice, and of course the return home of Ady. 🙂