Work all day for me today. It was a really good day, very busy and with a good atmosphere. A combination of the rain driving people in off the street and a burst of back to school energy made for a lots of people milling about. I spent lots of time on the enquiry desk and was most complimented by my boss telling me she wished she could just have a ‘team of Nicolas’ to run the library. Not sure anyone else I’ve ever met would be anything other than faintly horrified at the notion of an army of mes but she meant it for all the right reasons :lol:.
Jody, the man who works at the library is moving on to Bognor library. The borrowers haven’t been told yet but we’re anticipating tears. He has been a huge hit with females of a certain age – notably the very young and the very old. The children adore him and the older women of Lancing have been sent into heart fluttering overdrive at his tall, dark and handsome-ness :lol:. We spent the morning discussing how best to deal with the inevitable fall out of his leaving Lancing and figure it will be in the league of Robbie Williams leaving Take That. We’re planning on leaving the Team Read table and chairs out and putting tissues and hot sweet tea out and offering counselling sessions. We thought maybe a life size cut out of Jody that we could accessorise according to the season and then came up with some revenue generating ideas such as a Jody calendar and maybe some Jody ringtones of him saying things like ‘would you like me to renew that for you?’ and ‘quiet in the library’ might be good sellers. We told him he’ll never know such love as he’s felt here at Lancing and will always remember the days when he was ‘Big In Lancing’ (a big like Big In Japan’).Happy days! :). He and I were sniggering over a quote in the back of a book describing Arnie as ‘thinking woman’s beefcake’ and we decided Jody was the ‘incontinent woman’s beefcake’ – a motto I feel he could put on his CV and would take him places for sure :lol:. Ah the fun we have working at the library…
Meanwhile back at home Davies spent the day in his pjs lapping up the sympathy of Ady in the morning and my Mum in the afternoon. Within ten minutes of me being home he was doing someraults off the sofa though so I’m not utterly convinced he is at deaths door :). He does seem to have (another) cold though and I’m sure the greyness of the day didn’t help.
Scarlett had big news to greet me with that her first tooth has fallen out 🙂
I felt quite irrationally choked to have missed it actually coming out having witnessed all the children’s firsts up to now; first crawl, first steps, first word, all of Davies’ teeth coming out. This was the last time I’ll have a first tooth come out in my children and I felt a bit sad to have been out at work when it happened :(. I guess I was going to not be present for a first somewhere along the line but I was thinking more of kisses and other first sexual milestones many years from now 😆
I read some bedtime stories and they both took ages to fall asleep. And I finished the rag rug 🙂 I’m really pleased with it for a first attempt and although I learnt loads and would do certain things differently next time (like not stretching material when threading it on the pegs as it just springs back again when you take it off the pegs and you end up with narrower strips in places) it is pretty regular shaped and has a fairly good random pattern going on. It is made entirely of Scarlett’s old clothes and has pyjamas, tops, trousers, tights, pants and even a couple of swimming costumes chopped up in there. I have various plans for future projects so will be frantically gathering rags and materials now to stash for making rugs.
I’ll get some better pictures tomorrow in daylight but here is the finished item 🙂
That’s a fab creation!
That is really nice. I could almost (but not quite!) be persuaded.
If I were to, I would make one entirely out of cotton clothing and use it as a bathmat. I think it would be comfy underfoot, absorbent and washable.