Full up Tuesday

I had my list to work through this morning and with the exception of a couple of things I got everything done including laundry, baking and a couple of emails. I should get the rest of the stuff done tomorrow and I also managed an additional task of clearing out the shoeboxes in our hall of all outgrown or not worn any more shoes, moved all the summer shoes to the bottom and got the children to do a big trying on session of shoes. Davies has DMs that fit but needs black shoes for Badgers, Scarlett can still wear her Badger shoes but needs new winter shoes (boots) which I suspect will not be an easy or straightforward purchase. A job well done though :).

Just as I was finishing that and had shoes piled up infront of the front door Lucy and The Rs arrived so I had to keep them waiting on the doorstep while I finished putting everything away 😳 The children seemed to do well after a break and Davies was presented with presents which were very gratefully recieved and they all played, without misadventure for about 3 hours :). Lucy and I caught up on a weeks worth of gossip and chat while I threaded my pegloom and started my next rug – a blue, green and white creation I’ll be using for a bathmat. I want to create a blanket / throw for snuggling up in but need to really up my material stash for such a venture.

Then it was off to swimming. We parked right outside (there is a free carpark but it is often full and has lots of tricky pillars and low bits so my big car is a bit of a nightmare to negotiate round it and to be avoided if possible) and headed in past a glut of schoolchildren in the foyer. Scarlett stripped off and headed down to the poolside with not a quibble about her swimming cap and proceeded to have a fairly good lesson. Davies and I chatted about velocity, speed and weight and discussed an experiment to find how much higher you’d have to hold a marble than a leaf to drop them simultaneously and have them reach the ground at the same time. My physics isn’t great and as it seems to be something he frequently asks about maybe I should brush up on it a bit.

Then it was all change time as Scarlett came out of the pool and Davies got in. I may have to fine tune the whole process but this week Tarly sat on my lap in the spectators area and got dried and dressed. She still got restless though and it was a tiring hour trying to watch one child while keeping the other engaged. Might have to resort to DSs for next week. Another mum was reading to a sibling which is a good idea but actually I quite enjoy watching the lessons.

It was nice to be home before rush hour and have the children fed and bathed at a sensible time though. Ady got home and I headed off to reading group.

I was running it alone tonight and had gone in with plenty of time to spare incase things were not organised. Sure enough there was an email saying ‘please can you try and sell some tickets to the murder mystery event at Shoreham library on October 1st. There should be some posters there and you can google the host who an actress and crime writer. And there is only half a bottle of wine left’. Oh great! 🙁

The half a bottle was red and was in the fridge and there were no nibbles so I headed off to the supermarket for a bottle of white and some crisps with the change in my pocket while someone else did some wikipedia print offs for me of said actress. As I returned so the Very Important Library Woman for the whole area appeared with red and white wine and three boxes of nibbles :rolls:Not very high marks for communication then!

We had a fairly small attendance – there were 8 of us and all but me had read the book and thought it was ‘ok’ which always makes for not very much discussion – you want passionate reactions, either loved it or hated it to really get the conversation going really. As I’d not read it (I missed last month’s group and was told we’d had two books to choose from and I chose and read the other one, which noone else who came last night had read :rolls:) I wasn’t able to jump in and keep it rolling with ‘but what did you think about this bit?’ type prompts. So we were sort of done with the book by about 720pm. So we turned to chatting about possible books for the future and got onto the subject of horror and crime stories and TV adaptations. We talked about Stephen King, Dean Koontz and other such scary tales and then did that thing where you swap stories of the most terrifying thing you’ve ever read or seen. We were still done by 8pm so everyone else left and I was alone in the library.

I had to pop upstairs to return the kettle to the staffroom and generally tidy up which took about 10 minutes and because I don’t ever lock up usually I was inept with the complicated lighting system and threw myself into semi darkness for most of it. At which point all the horror stories we’d been talking about starting to play on my mind, along with the Doctor Who episode in the library and the fact that one of the other members of staff once told me she could feel an evil presence upstairs and never did shelving up there in the winter after it was dark as she didn’t like being up the alone. I decided it was more sensible to write all that off as nonsense and carry on in the dark as actually it being lit wouldn’t make me any less alone there and was only giving in to my own silliness so carried on with a ‘bring it on then’ type attitude. (But I was secretly a bit scared!). I cocked up the alarm setting by pressing the wrong button and it asking me if I wanted to change settings or code – NOOOOO!!! but sorted that out and managed to leave with the alarm set and everything looking as it should. I’m pretty sure a junior member of staff like me shouldn’t really be allowed in the library or indeed be locking up alone anyway but I managed it.

Home for bath, dinner, desperate trying to get Davies and Scarlett to go to sleep – there are still on HE time and sleeping in til 9am and not getting to sleep in the evening til about 10pm which is starting to be annoying. Watched Mutual Friends which we’re enjoying, we don’t normally watch series as we are crap at remembering to be infront of the tv at the right time to watch them each week so end up missing loads and giving up. We did miss last week’s by being away and not caring enough to record it but we don’t seem to have missed anything major happening and caught up again easily.