We were supposed to be having a day out with my Mum today to celebrate her birthday yesterday. She’d clearly been doing research and came round last night with a list of several ideas of things to do including a day at the very nice soft play over at Ford that we’ve not been to for well over a year due to the cost of it, and a trip to the Sea Life Centre at Brighton.
She rang about 930am to ask what arrangements if any we’d made last night as she couldn’t remember anything much after having the takeaway including how they got home 😆 and was feeling very wobbly. We agreed to meet an hour later than planned and she rang back an hour later to say she really wasn’t feeling at all well and had just been ill. I was torn between feeling sorry for her at feeling crap and feeling very amused about her hangover 😆 Unsure as to whether she would make a recovery for later in the day or not we decided to amuse ourselves around the house and made a big vat of popcorn and settled down to watch Happy Feet, which I’d brought home from work yesterday. It didn’t hold any of us, Scarlett sat playing with beads, I sat reading Billie Piper’s autobiography and Davies sat strewn across me with my laptop playing logic games. It was nice though :).
Mum eventually rang back around 2pm to say she had been back to bed and was now feeling fragile but able to leave the house. I needed various bits from the supermarket and had to go and get her to bring her back here to collect her car anyway as they’d got a cab home last night, so we popped over to pick her up and she came to Tescos with us. It was a really busy Friday afternoon in there but the children were really well behaved so it was not stressful. We got picked on to go into their market research kitchen bit to do some food tasting surveys. We’ve done that several times before – don’t know how many of their stores they have it in but there is a big kitchen area with seating where they carry out market research on things. In the past I’ve done about 5 or 6 tests on various products. Today it was chicken tikka masala jar sauces. Which was fine for me, but not so good for Mum’s delicate state, particularly as she’d had that in her takeaway last night :lol:. The children refused to try any but were spoilt with little pots of sweets, biscuits and drinks while we did our taste testing and then carried on with our shopping. The time was on the cusp of not quite tea time but nearly so we dropped the shopping back to the car and then went round M&S which is on the same site. They were doing lots of odd live demonstrations of things like giant snakes and ladders and volleyball net games while dressed up in M&S clothing ensembles and promoting their school uniform on 3 for 2, so the children got embroiled in a game of giant snakes and ladders and presented with a balloon each about school uniform, which tickled all of us and then Scarlett helped Mum on her quest for red shoes, smart, with a small heel and proved to be a very diligent personal shopper amusing the other shoppers by picking shoes up, considering them deeply and then putting them down as they were ‘not smart enough’ or ‘the heel is too flat’. 😆
Having killed enough time in M&S we went to McDonalds, also on the same site and bought the kids a Happy Meal each for their tea. Mum had a coffee which made her turn green again and go very quiet so once the children had finished eating we came home. Mum and I chatted while Davies and Scarlett played with various free gifts from when we subscribed to Horrible Science including putting a poster about inventions and discoveries up on the wall which I’ve promised to look at with them tomorrow. Ady came home, Mum left, Ady and the children went in the garden for a while whilst I did the Home Ed consultation thingy online.
Not quite the day we’d planned but nice enough nonetheless. Tomorrow I’m working in the afternoon and Ady has several visits to the tip planned to get rid of the garden rubbish he’s created in digging up our front bit of garden to make more lawn.
not that you would ever gloat over someone with a hang over hey Nic 😉 Love the image of Scarlett as a personal shopper.
Comment by t-bird — 07 July 2007 @ 7:38 am