And off to work again for me. I left only Ady up and was starting to feel the effects of a second morning after the night before at work ;).
It was a fairly low key morning thankfully – I did a Back to School display by putting up some black paper and writing on it with chalk (I know, chalk, me, see how I face my demons!) and artfully arranging school related books (I included Spot Starts School, First Term at Malory Towers and I am absolutely too small for school along with everything inbetween I could find). I spent teabreak discussing camping trips and then an hour on the enquiry desk properly In Charge of the library as the senior nipped over to Shoreham to collect something. I was a fairly rubbish in charge person mind you as I just let all the staff go on the internet 😆
I spent the last hour writing a letter to all the reading groups based at the library about the new Reading Groups Charter and trying to organise how we run the groups a bit better. All very productive :).
Back home I had a quick cup of tea and got changed into Nic again and then we all piled into cars and headed to the beach via Asda for supplies (sausages, rolls, marshmallows and readymixed Pimms in tins). The kids did rock clambering and various degrees of entering the sea (both of my two changed into swimsuits and went right in – Scarlett got dressed and then later got changed back into swimsuit and went in again, mad girl!). Ady did barbecueing of sausages on our little portable barbecue which we then all gathered round afterwards and melted marshmallows on.
It was fairly windy and not incredibly warm but nice food, lovely company, impressive kite surfers to watch and happy children so a good couple of hours :). The only slight blot was a dog that seemed to be completely ignored by it’s owners, wherever they were and hung around us in what I found a very menacing way although was probably just after our sausages. It made me very nervous 🙁
We left at about 4ish and Scarlett got stroppy about wanting an icecream so we called back in to Asda to buy a packet which appeased her. Back home again the kids played, Kirsty and I did knitting and we all drank lots of tea. The men and kids wanted to watch Total Wipeout (I have my own name for it which keeps the Total bit…) so Kirsty had a shower and I had a bath to avoid that ;).
There was a brief hiatus which we all searched for a missing chicken which we had to admit defeat over. Sadly the chicken was found this morning – one of the cockerel chicks. It had managed to get itself stuck behind a box,upside down and had died 🙁 Feel a bit bad for not having found it last night although I suspect it may still have been too late even by the time we’d realised it was missing. We were agonising over what to do with the extra cockerel anyway but it is still a horrid way to die :(.
Ady cooked pizza and we had a very funny evening watching virtual music videos on youtube. Our runaway favourite was the Total Eclipse of the Heart one which is a mental video anyway but quite hytserical with the new voiceover 😆
Ady and James went to bed and in honour of it being their last night with us and me not having to get up for work in the morning Kirsty and I stayed up til late o’clock chatting :).
I will be forever grateful to that cockerel chick for hist timely sacrificing of himself in order for me not to watch X factor. So kind of him I thought ;o) Seriously though, was sad :O(
Loved seeing you at the weekend. Lots of chilling out time was just what I needed. Thanks for having us :O)
Comment by Kirsty — 30 August 2009 @ 11:22 pm