Cos I have four CVs which are due back tomorrow (at the latest!) and I’ve only done one so far, I’ve got book group tonight and will be back at a film week film again first thing tomorrow morning so I really need to get them all done this afternoon. So naturally I am spending lots of time faffing around online after every few sentences. 😆 I’ve done the most tricky though and made a rather sad life story sound like an improvement opportunity rather than a need for years of therapy (despite my personal feeling that that is what the individual needs far more than a part time driving job…).
Yesterday after blogging Ady and Chris arrived, the children were all fed (some with less hassle than others – some exhibiting in full glorious technicolour with dolby stereo surround sound just how challenging their current behaviour is :roll:) and we came home. We arrived back about 10pm -ish, Tarly had fallen asleep before we even left Reading, as predicted ;-), Davies had stayed awake chatting about nonsense all the way home 🙄 but fell asleep very quickly. We had a bath and dinner and a rather late night.
This morning we went to see Over The Hedge and as Ady was WFH this morning he was able to run us there, hang around parked up doing some reading revision for his course this afternoon and then bring us home again. Usually the cinema at the marina shows film week films but this week they are all at a different cinema in the centre of Brighton which has no parking. I looked at bus or train to get us there but we’d need to leave really early for either and actually the cost is still way more to pay for me and Davies for train or bus than even Brighton’s extortionate parking costs and petrol. Tomorrow we’ll have to drive and park though but Thursday Ady might be able to run us there.
I thought the film was okay, not the best of the computer animated choices but certainly not the worst (that title still is well and truly earned by The Wild I reckon) and the children really liked it. I thought it had elements of Toy Story in the friendship / new kid on the block impressing the ‘kids’ and pushing the usual leader’s nose out of joint type plot line. I do like Bruce Willis though, even when you can’t see him so that was a definite plus :-). The showing was specifically set up for disabled attendees so there were lots of children in wheelchairs and lots of disabled children generally. Davies and Scarlett chose to sit at the front as usual (which is fine by me, I’ll take legroom and no annoying kids infront of me over a fantastic view of the screen any day :lol:) so we were talking about why they couldn’t just ‘park’ wheelchairs anywhere and needed to keep the aisles free incase of evacuation. Which led to spotting the emergency exits, the fire extinguishers, the manual hose reel, the emergency lighting etc. Curiously they didn’t really ask for any detail on why any of the children might have been in wheelchairs or behaving in unusual ways. It is something we have talked about fairly casually in the past so I guess they havn’t developed any further curiosity yet.
We came out to the wonderful text to say Jasper had arrived complete with photos so we huddled round my phone cooing at his picture while waiting for Ady to collect us and came home for lunch.
Ady has now gone off to college, Davies is playing Xbox, Tarly is watching him (having spent ages washing her hands, making her own sandwich and pulling over a pile of videos – honestly it’s like having an 18 month old baby again sometimes 🙄 except instead of being my attention she is seeking with her behaviour it is Davies’ :lol:). And I promise not to come back until I have done another whole CV…