And Nic is way too pissed to think of a clever Christmas song lyric to sum up the day. Hell I am barely able to type legibly and now I am seriously doubting that legibly is the correct spelling but can’t be arsed to check.
This morning started with a cockadoodledoo, or at least the early croaks of one as one of the bantams is either a) a cockerel b) top of the hen pecking order and asserting herself in a very obvious way c) undergoing some strange chicken phenonmena type transgender sex change type affair d) having a bit of a laugh e) about to start laying eggs f) practising it’s cockerel impressions for the Goddard Bantam Christmas Caberet Event. Not at all sure which of the above it might have been but it was quite categorically the early signs of crowing :lol:.
Me and the children sat around drinking tea and messing about online (me), playing with geomags (them) and watching a zoo program about a newborn giraffe that was rejected by it’s mother and then died and then a programme about watercolour art techniques for painting landscapes (all of us together, with much discussion on all counts). After having listened to the news Scarlett asked me about suicide bombers too so I covered the very notion of suicide, why people might do suicide bombing and how yes, it was indeed very sad but that most people would have something they believed in strongly enough to die for.
We then watched the Doctor Who where Mickey stays in the parallel world with Rose’s Dad and they say goodbye to each other having defeated the cyberman army with the Doctor talking about humans and Planet Earth and all our failings. We discussed how you wouldn’t know how it felt to be rested until you’d been tired, happy until you’d been sad, satiated until you’d been hungry and so on. How what makes us human is our imagination, dreams, hopes, strivings towards stuff and how homogenousness and sameness and utter sameness would wipe out all that is amazing about individuality. It was all very deep and very basic all at the same time.
Then my Dad rang and in a similar manner to me ringing him yesterday to ask ‘What are you doing right now?’ he asked me and requested I go over and jump start his van that the battery had died on. We were moments away from leaving to go to Ali’s anyway so jumped in the car, declined the offer of deicer from David (thank you neighbour with just the one known about personality who has seen me semi naked and always tries to invade my personal space) and headed over to my Dad’s. The children were most interested in batteries and jump starts so having manouvered my car infront of my Dad’s and popped the bonnet they both hopped out to see what the jump leads were all about and how they worked. We got Dad’s van started and then followed him to his mechanics to get the dodgy battery sorted out. On the way we talked about the purpose of a car battery, which points along the route are potential stalling hotspots and some basic car mechanics.
We left Dad there getting his van sorted and headed on over to Ali’s, listening to James Blunt at Scarlett’s request but singing the triangle song over Your’re Beautiful anyway.
Had a lovely time at Ali and Freya’s. Both D and S made Christmas cards for Ali (they both adore Ali, she is one of their favourite people :)), Davied and Freya xboxed which was good as Davies gets little or no opportunity for mulit player gaming and Scarlett did lots of baking with Ali which she loved :). Ali and I managed some chatting which was ace and it was a nice visit :).
We left to come home and spent most of the journey talking about the sky, sunsets and painting. I’m sure I’ve missed something else we chatted about but I can’t recall it now. Oh must also mention Tarly getting together a small lego or similar doll and telling me very seriously ‘this girl has gone out by herself’ to which she got a usual ‘oh right’ type answer so she expanded with ‘but she hasn’t looked across the water’ (Valerie, Scarlett and my favourite song atm) complete with full explanation about why she hadn’t looked across the water and everything!
Home for roast chicken for D&S and a bath for me and A followed by mum arriving t0 babysit. We got all dressed up where we had a nice enough meal and pretty OK company. There were enough people there I’d met once or twice before for me to feel not completely out of water. We left fairly early and were home not long after 11pm. A chat and cup of coffee with my Mum before she left and then off to bed for us.
You were very much missed here!
It was a lovely afternoon, really enjoyed it
We were sooo tempted to come to yours instead Ros and if we’d not already paid money to got to Ady’s work do we would have done. It just won’t feel like Christmas without that singsong round the piano :).
There’s always next year! I’ll be more organised and set the date in November!