I was off for the day being Nicola at the library.
It was baby rhyme time today – we had a good sized turn out of about 15 babies and 15 adults which is comfortable capacity in the junior section. I’m trying to ring the changes a bit with the songs as I’m getting bored of the same old ones. One of the toddlers, Maisie has taken a shine to me and tried to come and sit on my lap. My Dad always says kids and animals know when you are not interested in them and the more you ignore them the more interested in you they become. He’s right – I am the hit of Baby Rhyme time and all the while inside my head I am screaming ‘more away from me and take your snotty nose and your dribbly chin with you’!!!!
I did have a new couple come along for the first time with their tiny baby, he looked a bit like Phil from Phil and Kirsty and sang a rousing Little Peter Rabbit and came up afterwards to say thank you and how much they’d enjoyed it :). Positive feedback from adults I am rather more receptive to, generally they don;t try and climb on my lap!
That said I have made similar errors with both a colleague and a regular borrower too recently. The first is my colleague I decided to find common ground with so she’d stop patronising me and treating me like I was 12. That has worked so well she now seems to think we are best friends. This worries me as surely it’s only a matter of time before she asks me round for tea and then finds some way of publically damning me when she realises we’re not going to be walking round the library arm in arm dressed in matching outfits after all. The second is an alcoholic man who spends most of his day in the library on the internet. He is an artist (piss artist and art artist) who regularly displays his (actually very good) art work there. He is a very intelligent bloke who is articulate (when not slurring) and clearly has had something go wrong in his life to put him where he is now rather than where he could potentially have been. I’ve always been polite to him but he’s now seeking me out to ‘chat’ and breathe fumes over. I suspect always finishing at 5pm I am fairly safe, he usually only gets rowdy and abusive after 6pm and the police have regularly been called to remove him from the premises.
So anyway, work was fine ;).
Meanwhile at home Ady was here this morning but my Dad was around for most of it and they changed the blade on Dad’s chainsaw and chatted. Mum was here this afternoon. When I got in she was snuggled up on the sofa looking at Tarly’s DS with her. Scarlett seems to have had a nice day but Davies was very wobbly when I got in and got tearful twice in the hour between me getting home and going back out again to Rainbows with Scarlett.
Ady got home in time for Davies to stay here with him and they made pizza together and equilibrium seemed restored by the time we got home.
At Rainbows they made mosaic pictures – Scarlett was the only one who claimed to know what a mosaic was when the leader asked – made me wonder if it’s not on the reception and year one curriculum ;). They did some team games and then moved through for show and tell. I saw and knitted, which seemed to work in making me less accessible to the Rainbows to come and chat to me. Good :). Did I mention how I attract small people?
Scarlett took her kitty rucksack to show and tell which was dutifully cooed over. 🙂
Back home again I helped Davies finish his Ewok with a hood thing and an embroidered face. I’ve no real idea if it looks Ewok-y or not but Ady tells me it does. I’m really proud of Davies as he has pretty much done it himself and really enjoyed it 🙂 He’s very proud of himself too 🙂 Will take some photos tomorrow in daylight of it.
I read a couple of chapters of Humphrey and then they went to bed, Ady cooked dinner and I started knitting my next project – a jumper for me.