Way too early start this morning as the children were off to Julie’s for the morning while I worked and Ady insists I get up to help chivvy them along. They were gone by 8am so I did some chicken run maintenance outside in my nightie before coming in to get dressed and then adding photos to some of my posts from last week. I think I only have Friday left to do now.
Work was fine. It felt slightly odd as I’d been given 2 hours off to catch up on various things so only spent one hour doing real proper in the library work and that was shelving. I didn’t go on the counter or the enquiry desk at all.
I had my appraisal back from the Area Librarian who has added her comments to it – all very nice and things like ‘thank you for your support and enthusiasm’ and ‘it’s a pleasure to work with you’. 🙂 Felt a bit blah about the whole thing today for some reason though, sometimes it all just seems a little too easy to feel good about – like being really excellent at a paper round or something…
The drive over to Julie’s to collect Davies and Scarlett seemed to take forever although it’s only about half an hour. I listened to the radio (an usual luxury even if it was just Jeremy Vine and a phone in about graffiti and tried not to fret about Badger camp which is rather consuming all of my private headspace at the moment).
I had a nice chat with Julie and Davies and Scarlett had had a nice morning with them. I do wish they lived nearer and we could do more popping in on each other and having each others children as it is lovely to see the five cousins get along so well and be such good mates. I remember being at school with children who were close to their cousins and being envious of them so I’m glad our children are having that experience. We’re actually seeing them a third time this week on Sunday at the Weald and Downland Museum.
Lorna had baby swimming and we needed to get back for Badgers so we headed off, calling in at Tesco on the way to get Davies some new black trousers as he’s finally grown out of the ones he was wearing and they were looking very tatty anyway with glue spilt on them that never did wash off. They finally got their new Badger t shirts tonight too having been wearing plain white Tshirts for the last month or so so they’ll be looking smart again when they go back in September.
Back home for tea and the usual round of grr-ing at them about uniforms and getting changed. We were later than we usually are leaving although I normally allow a bigger time buffer than we need today we actually did need it as there had been an accident along the coast road and we ended up being 10 minutes late. On the way we listened to The Commitments, just for a change, and because it’s got a lot of good drum beats in the songs which Davies is listening out for to try and learn some rhythms to play on his drums.
The Badgers went off to make ‘mocktails’ which we were all invited to try (they were vile – we all sneakily poured then down the sink! :lol:) while the parents chatted. There is a really nice group of people there and the parents always have a laugh and a chatter together, there’s even been talk of decamping to the pub while the kids are at Badgers for those of us who have to hang around because it’s not worth driving home. Might well do that next term when it’s too dark to go off walking on the beach.
The presentation was nothing dramatic today as they didn’t have any special SJA people attending. Davies and Scarlett were only getting their badge and certificate for the badge they’ve done this term so not too much sewing on of badges this time thankfully. I heard today at work that swine flu is in local schools in both Lancing and Worthing and there were a lot of coughing people in the room tonight.
Back home for the last episide of Torchwood and a very late dinner. I’m now feeling sorry for myself with a sore throat and going to go to bed.