I woke up super early this morning (at half past seven!!!!) and was already up and getting dressed when Ady rang to say he’d heard on the travel news on the way into work that trains were disrupted around Worthing. I checked online and sure enough there were none running from Littlehampton to Brighton all along the coast with a bus service instead. Our 839am train would have been cutting it fine to get to RI anyway so there would have been no room for delays. The latest train from Brighton was the 949am to get in at 1030ish but with all the disruption there was every chance we wouldn’t get seats on the bus anyway. I considered driving to Brighton which we had plenty of time to do but parking would have been really expensive so in the end Davies and I (Tarly was still asleep at that point) decided it wasn’t worth trying and forking out train fares with so little margin of error allowed for time.
It was very grey and miserable outside so we decided to have the morning at home and maybe go out in the afternoon if the weather cheered up. Scarlett woke up, the kids had breakfast and got dressed, I fed the chickens and drank lots of tea.
Davies did some more papier mache to his Star Wars thing (he tells me it is ‘an X wing fighter’ I have to believe him ;)) with odd bits of guidance and suggestion from me. He doesn’t really have the patience for such a tedious project but he’s doing well. Scarlett did some painting – various techniques including handprints, splattering paint, drawing and then watercolouring it in and mixing shades. The result was actually quite a nice looking piece of work – her drawing is really coming along and she is doing lots of writing strings of letters and then asking what they say.
I had an efficient half an hour of setting up a new local yahoo group, emailing a couple of places about group visits and discounts with the intention of planning some events locally, sorted out some membership cards for local folk that the soft play place is asking for to get discount and a couple of other online things including discovering that I didn’t seem to have actually booked a place at this morning’s lecture anyway, nor at the one we intend going to in a couple of weeks 🙁 Hoping I can get that sorted out somehow and have booked places for the others in March I’d already got written in my diary.
I also emailed the couple of complaint email addresses Helen mentioned in her blog post the other day and emailed Tim Loughton, our local MP. I was sort of expecting a positive response and got one very quickly. 🙂
Then it was lunchtime so we enjoyed the nice lunch we’d been planning to take for a picnic and my Dad arrived. I made him some lunch too and he stayed for about 3 hours. It was really nice to see him, he was in a chatty mood so we sat and talked, I knitted and the kids played with the lego. It was all very nice :).
Dad left and the kids carried on with the lego, then tidied it up and went off to play upstairs leaving me to carry on with my knitting. I made their tea which they ate watching selected bits of Star Wars and then it was time to get changed for Badgers.
I was only in car for ten minutes or so before Ady arrived so we went off for our regular circuit of a walk. We both went in to collect the children and Davies went home with Ady, Scarlett with me. Tarly is doing first aid and said she’d been learning about how to deal with someone who is unconscious. She talked me though it very coherantly, she’s enjoying it this term :). Next week she needs to have learnt our address including postcode and our phone number so that might prove rather challenging!
Davies is doing Hungry Badger and had made fruit and veg (and rather oddly wafer thin sliced processed chicken) kebabs – one for each of us. Ady’s was very mushroom heavy, Scarlett’s had lots of green grapes as they are her favourites and mine had grapes, apple and cucumber but I gave my cucumber to Scarlett. We all ate them on the way home :).
A couple more chapters of The World According to Humphrey which we’re enjoying and then bed for the kids and I got back to my knitting and finished my hat! 🙂 I’m very pleased with it and am now working on a pair of matching fingerless gloves :). Ady cooked a curry and we watched Grand Designs. I do like Kevin and his Voice of Doom :).