I had a nice morning at work. Thanks to some rota / timetable mix up with me doing odd Saturdays I wasn’t expected in on the timesheet, but A, one of the young librarians who was senior today asked me to stay anyway as she wanted to talk to me about various things.
So I spent an hour putting up an Andy Stanton display with a load of Mr Gum books, some time manning the desk, some time chatting to the Saturday assistants about exams and future dreams and body piercings and some time chatting to A about a Halloween event we’re planning with dressing up and crafts and stuff and an event or workshop we want to run for the My Story BBC thing. A and I have very similar ideas about the library service and have previously been thwarted in attempts to run events before by the senior librarian who is taking voluntary redundancy next month. We’ve planned an event for her last day and were sniggering evily at the idea of it!
I got details through of the evening course I’ve signed up to do. It’s 9 weeks, 3 hours a week on already madder than mad Tuesdays but it’s a really interesting course, run by Brighton uni which will teach me new stuff, introduce me to new and hopefully interesting people, give me another thing to add to the CV, open up opportunities for voluntary and maybe eventually paid work, help me learn more about and be active in environmental issues I am interested in, allow me to share that knowledge with Davies and Scarlett and hopefully open other doors too. More on that after I’ve started the course :).
We had a very productive couple of hours at the allotment. We did some good weed clearing, checked on the parsnips (looking good), carrots (looking good) and leeks (not so good), found some onions that seem to be doing okay for next year and planted some garlic. It all looks tidy and promising and it’s been a very good first year on the plot.
A lovely long catch up phonecall with Julie. We had birthdays of children to shriek at each other about ‘You’ve got a NINE year old’ ‘yeah and you’ve got TWO SEVEN year olds!’ and some general catching up. Arranged to see her a couple of time in the next few weeks.
Have clearly made it in the local HE hierarchy as have been invited to a very select Home Ed adults only support group that I knew existed but have never been asked to participate in before ;).
Had a phonecall I returned and chatted to Not Swinger Rose inviting me to go and see Fame with her and also asking Ady and I to their house for a pre-Christmas dinner with her sister and BIL. Maybe this is the height of kinkiness they were waiting for before making their move? 😉
Having a lovely facebook chat with my mate Jim who aside from telling me all that’s happening with him and doing the same back has just said the following very lovely thing 🙂 “I am impressed by your committment to your childrens upbringing, by the way. Feel slightly ashamed for not making more effort. I hardly know my boys sometimes and I HATE the fact I’ve spent all my time in shitty jobs failing to see them grow up.” Clearly I bigged him up back but it feels very lovely to have such nice feedback from basically doing something I love doing anyway and spending time with who I consider to be the most awesome people and best company of anyone I know!
I don’t have to get up for work in the morning!
The sun just keeps on shining 🙂
And we have another day of the weekend left and a planned nice day tomorrow.
I cooked a very delicious dinner tonight of sausages, bacon, potatoes, sweet potatoes, red onions (our own from the allotment), garlic, carrots, parsnips, slosh of red wine, oil, salt, pepper and rosemary all baked in the oven. Vegetable-y, partially home-grown and good to eat!
And that is why I’m smiliing, nothing to do with all that wine 😉