Another early start today as Ady was dropping Davies and Scarlett off at Elizabeth’s to play with T and M while I worked this morning. I helped chivvy breakfast consumption and getting dressed and waved them off before getting dressed myself and spending some time with the chickens.
Work was very brisk and busy, just the way I like it to be. I spent some time on the counter where I was very efficient, some time shelving where I was equally efficient, some time off sending out overdue letters and then doing the closing up. I like Wednesday mornings :).
I drove over to Elizabeth’s realising on the way I’d not given her the library phone number or any of my usual list of contact details and other such ‘in case of emergency’ stuff. I arrived at their house to spot a note taped to the front door at which my heart sank but it was just to say they had gone to the local park and to go and meet them there. The note gave driving instructions so I did drive but it was easily walkable. I stood for a good couple of minutes quite close observing them all before they realised I was there. Scarlett impressed me with her ability to do the monkey bars really well and we all went back to their house. I drove and Davies and M chose to come with me while Elizabeth walked with Scarlett and T. Apparently Tarly spent the whole time telling them all about komodo dragons which had been on the Life programme she’d watched with Ady last night. We beat them back by a short time so let ourselves in and I put the kettle on and we all had lunch.
The kids went off to play in the garden while Elizabeth and I chatted. She is very good friends with Imran who was one of the HE parents at the Select Committee so she was telling me his feedback from that and we chatted about the whole thing generally before moving onto other stuff. As always, an enjoyable couple of hours in very easy company.
We left with enough time to get home and changed before Badgers and thanks to very light traffic Scarlett and I had time to snuggle up and read a book together too.
At Badgers Julie asked me if Davies and Scarlett would be there for the Remembrance Day parade, I said they would and she then asked if Davies would like to be the Badger to lay the wreath. I said I was sure he would – and having asked him afterwards was right, he’d love to.
Our usual friends were both there so we waited another 10 minutes for Ady to arrive and then all went to Lidl together. We picked up some advent calendars for the kids and a few other bits aswell as eyeing up a waffle-maker. We walked back again and lurked in the corridor outside Badgers. They asked outright about Davies and Scarlett and school this week as they’d been wondering how come we had so many day trips to London on week days so when we mentioned Longleat this week it was enough to ask. Both were fairly laid back about it with a simple ‘oh right’ type answer although I suspect more questions will come up over time.
Back home again for toast for the kids and some more before bed for them.
I’m sure there is probably more but I can’t think of it.