I worked this morning. It would be my full day to work this week but as they owe me hours for bank holiday Monday (we all get pro-rata’d hours back from the library being closed for the day) I finished at 130 instead of 5pm. F, my favourite colleague was working so we had a good laugh together and aside from an incident of me getting caught with a very smelly man who came in to use the photocopier and wanted to tell me his life story (I was rescued by one of the others interupting to tell me I had to go to lunch 🙂 ) it went really quickly.
I was greeted at the gate by four children all chanting ‘Mummy’ or ‘Nic’ depending on whether they are related to me or not, which was very nice 🙂 and then thanks to the lure of lego, chickens and jaffa cakes Lucy and I were pretty much left alone for several hours to chat, which was lovely. We discussed all sorts of things from hairstyles to home education before they headed off and I sorted Davies and Scarlett some tea out. They watched the Doctor Who Christmas special with Catherine Tate in it which they hadn’t seen before (it was before they started watching it and although they have gradually caught up with all the episodes with Rose in I’d forgotten that special and not ordered it in until now). Some of the one liners and facial expressions went over their heads but made me snigger, I do like Catherine Tate. Also on the disc is the Music and Monsters Doctor Who Confidential with David Tennant talking in his scottish accent (which makes all the difference to me, I can start to see what the fuss about him is about when he talks like that 😉 ) and the music being played the orchestra so they watched that too and really enjoyed it.
Earlier Lucy and I had removed the space hopper from the dalek so I brought it in the lounge and spent a couple of hours putting on the last few ‘twiddly bits’ including the second sink plunger as it’s eye. It just needs the last few bits stuck onto that eye piece tomorrow and then it’s ready for painting :).
Ady is planning to take Davies to work with him tomorrow if he’s up early enough so I will just have Scarlett with me. I need to go into town to the bank but other than that I plan to spend some time doing whatever she wants to do which will be nice.