Timed blogging…

Just out of interest because I have no idea how long it takes me to blog.

Work for me this morning. It was a usual busy Wednesday. I spent the first hour taking down a display ready for someone else to put one up tomorrow. The second hour and a half covering the enquiry desk (which barely lived up to it’s name as I had hardly any enquiries 😉 – I spent some time checking the order of a set of Star Wars graphic novels for a particularly anorak-y regular borrower. Felt a bit busmans holiday that given how much Star Wars talk I listen to at home at the moment. Checked to see if we had a Haynes Manual for a Mercedes Sprinter van (we didn’t) and spent an inordinate amount of time helping a colleague ringing from home trying to find a direct dial number for payroll.

I had teabreak with my newest colleague who is very nice and has a same age as Scarlett daughter who sounds similarly individual and fiesty so we like to trade stories about them. The last hour was spent on the counter and was the busiest.

All 3 of the other staff working took time to compliment Davies and Scarlett’s display and say how eye catching and well done it was and how impressed they are with it. As two have similar age children and one has similar age grandchildren and they all seemed very genuinely impressed I passed the compliments onto the kids who were very pleased to hear such glowing feedback :). Fingers crossed it makes a difference to people dropping litter…

Meanwhile back at home Ady and the children had planted up some carrots (seperated some plugs into larger 9cm pots ready to think about putting in at the allotment in the next few weeks).

I came home, Ady went to work and the children carried on with whatever it was they were absorbed with – ah yes, DSing and lego. I checked the incubator eggs about 27 times as they are due to start hatching but as yet no pipping (the first tiny cracks) is evident.

I made myself a bowl of pasta for lunch as I was starving. I must be getting better as I also made a huge curry for dinner and ate the lot, appetite well and truly returned :).

We spent the afternoon in companiable getting on with our own stuff really.I amended an online food shop to add a few things having menu planned for the month, started knitting my next project and read some of my book.

Ady had taken a chicken and noodle ready meal out of the freezer for the kids’ tea that he’d bought reduced to clear ages ago but neither of them really liked it. We ran out of time before Badgers for anything else so they had toast when we got home instead. They both enjoyed Badgers – Davies tried pretzels, bagels and various herbs and spices as part of his Hungry Badger badge. I had a wander round CoOp and Waitrose rather than sitting in the car all alone and then spent the last 10 minutes or so playing Davies’ DS.

Scarlett got all upset when we got home about how noone ever listens to her so we had a bit of a chat about that (her and I, not all of us, it’s not a genuine complaint although I wanted to make sure she felt I’d heard what she was saying) and then we read the first couple of chapters in Humanism What’s That?: A Book for Curious Kids which is one of the books I’d ordered specially from work and they’d bought in for me.

It says on the back it is for ages 10plus and it’s in the style of a play with just dialogue although the teacher explains lots as she goes along. So far I’ve not skipped over any of it although it has raised loads of questions as we veer off of the book and into discussions. We’ve talked about heresy, religion of a country, censuses, birth, death and marriage certficiates (must get out birth and marriage ones for them to see tomorrow and also find some census online for them to look at), briefly touched on abortion and contraception (suspect we’ll be returning to that one), christenings and other religious ceremonies and loads more. I think it’s excellent, possibly a bit old for D and definitely for S but as always they will take from it what’s relevant and makes sense and come back to the rest as and when. It does seem to be very balanced and reasonable although I am conscious it is a bit on the anti-religion side so far but suspect it will be more positive about that further into the book. We’ll probably finish it during the day tomorrow rather than continuing with it as bedtime reading though as it’s a bit heavy going and it would be better to have time to go off at tangents as we read.

So, children to bed, bath and curry for us and a blog post within 15 minutes. Which is just as well considering how many of them I have got ;).