I worked this morning. It was a day when the levels of busyness were inconsistent and we veered between queuing chaos and dead quiet. I spent some time going through local magazines and noting contact details of various local clubs, groups and societies as one my current jobs is to maintain the catalogue of information about local groups that the library holds for borrower reference and I am aware it is woefully out of date and incomplete. We have also started an initative called ‘Community Saturday’ at Lancing where we offer a table and chairs and some space to local groups to come in and spend a couple of hours on a Saturday morning in the library where they can chat to borrowers and generally increase awareness of their group. It seems to be working well so far and we all like the idea of the library as a central point in the local community. By getting more of these groups on our database I can hopefully increase the variety of groups we have participating in the Community Saturday thing too which will be good.
Meanwhile Ady took Davies and Scarlett back to Pulborough Brooks for their monthly Wildlife Explorers session. They had a great time, as usual and spent some time in the ‘Aren’t Mammals Amazing’ marquee learining about mammals and then some time out on the reserve watching the deer. Our RSPB membership is one of the best investments we’ve made in a long time :).
They came home and in our continuing effort to save energy and money they shut the lounge door and lit a fire and turned the heating off. Scarlett spent some time playing on the latop (Barbie.com I believe) while Ady and Davies had a draughts match and they all listened to classical music, which was the tableau I came home to find just after 1pm :).
I had some lunch and then we headed off to Sainsburys for various bits and pieces before going over to Chris and Julie’s for what has now become our annual fireworks event with them.
They had been looking at old photo albums, some of Julie as a child and some of Jack and Maisie from a few years ago when they were toddlers so while the children played we all looked at them again. 70s photos have such a characteristic look to them, way more so than any other decade I think and we featured in plenty of the ones from a few years ago so that was a nice wander down memory lane :). We also have duplications in our albums of several too and found ourselves smiling over several including:
from a holiday we all took together in Dorset in October 2004
Jack and Maisie’s second birthday party (making Davies 4, his Peter Pan era and Scarlett not yet 2)
We had a selection of nice food including Julie’s jam tarts and apple muffins, some of my gingerbread, some pumpkin soup and some toasted pumpkin seeds (coated with something that wasn’t marmite but made them taste like twiglets). It has tipped down with rain here pretty much all day long and it carried on all afternoon and evening so Chris and Ady braved the rain to light some fireworks wearing their matching high-vis coats (Ady’s is a work one, Chris got his from a car boot sale – sometimes it really is very obvious they are brothers :lol:)
The children booted and coated up and went out too while Julie, Lorna and I sensibly remained indoors and watched from behind glass :).
We left there about 630pm and came home. Davies and I watched X Factor together while Scarlett and Ady cooked a huge curry for Ady and I. Then they went to bed. Actually Davies returned back downstairs again to watch the results show as he was still awake :rolls:.