Hey hey wanna be a rock star

I was up early enough to walk into work this morning. A fly flew into my eye on the way which meant I had to remove it from my eye and repair my make up when I got to work and had a sore eye for the rest of the day. It also meant the fly had an abrupt and pointless death. Pretty much the opposite of a win:win situation really.

Work was good, I quite like the Saturday morning shift, you get ‘regulars’ who are up for a bit of banter. I finished my display which I didn’t manage to get a photo of but will do next time I’m in and spent the last hour talking to my colleague Jan about monks, nuns and local ghost sightings :). Ady and the children arrived shortly before I finished and sat in the childrens area reading stories.

We had much discussion about what to do this afternoon and eventually decided to stay home. Davies is a but under the weather with a painful mouth ulcer and we have a day out planned tomorrow which I’d rather he was well to enjoy. We watched Swallows and Amazons on dvd which was good although D and S dipped in and out rather than watching intently. Then Scarlett and I nipped out. We needed bacon and mushrooms for dinner tonight, cakes for tomorrows picnic and some ice lollies as requested by D and S. Scarlett is also in dire need of some t shirts so we went to the Co-op which has a cheap clothing concession instore and got her several new tops, a pair of cropped trousers and a dress that she fell in love with instantly and couldn’t be parted from (she got changed into it when we got home and is now asleep in bed still wearing it. She says it makes her look like ‘a lady’ 😆 and :rolls:) aswell as a pair of size-too-big but she’ll grow into them and they were only £2.50 leopard print shoes. I adore my children as a duo but love time spent with just one of them even more so that was lovely :).

Home in time for tea, Doctor Who and Doctor Who confidential, bed for them and pizza for dinner for us.

Scarlett discovered a nest formed in the hedge today by one of our hens complete with 6 eggs. This is great news as I had worried that neither hen had laid for a week. The other hen is in her house sitting and has clearly gone broody despite not actually having any eggs to sit on.This is fine as Tom sent another 6 fertilised eggs home with Ady yesterday so broody hen is now sitting on 3 of them to see how it all works naturally (albeit with eggs she neither laid nor were fertilized by our cockerel). We’re thinking we might let D and S have total responsibility for incubator duty for the other 3 and maybe 3 of our own hens’ eggs with all the temperature checking, egg turning and humidity maintenance that involves.

Finally tonight Davies called Ady up to show him the calendar he has in his room. He had worked out which month was September on it (only one beginning with a Ssss apparentely :)) and then written ‘8’ in the box of the 14th. It’s still months away but party planning is happening in earnest. He can’t wait to be 8. Personally I’m in utter denial at the very idea of being the mother of an 8 year old :lol:.