I had a very ranty start to my morning with a phonecall from Ady regarding company cars. I went from shouting and swearing to tearful and back again, not helped by Ady handing his phone to someone else during the call so I had to pull myself together to chat to him aswell. Alls as well as it’s going to end well by the end of the working day on that front and who ever knows whether my knee jerk reactions and tendancy to go and yell at people has a better or worse potential pay off than Ady’s cheerful acceptance of things.
We went over to Ali’s today where after some initial not being too happy about PSPing Scarlett was placated with some watercolour pencils which meant Davies and Freya did get to play Little Big Planet together which they enjoy lots. We then went off to Monkee Bizniz Sohft Plae the ‘wackily spelt’ local soft play place (I may have added to the wackiness of the spelling a bit, but they started it). Ali very kindly paid for everyone to go in (everyone as in the five of us, not everyone as in all of Lewes) and I got in the refreshments.
This was a big success I think – certainly Ali and I got to sit on a sofa and chat and the kids went off and played :). My watch was wrong which meant we actually left about 20 minutes later than I’d planned to and Ady rang me about 37 times which was slightly distracting and I think Ali and I had about 6 conversations on the boil which we kept interchanging between without ever really finishing any of them. But lovely to spend time with them as always :).
We got hom about 420pm and no snow had started to fall at that point. I put the chickens away, turned the heating up, put on socks and an extra jumper and did the kids some tea. I took and made a couple of phonecalls pertaining to Davies’ coat which he’d managed to leave in the cloakroom at Badgers last night when he left early with Ady. I then directed Ady (who I was holding jointly responsible with Davies for leaving it there) to go and collect it from another Badger leader’s house so we at least have that back. Which is good, what with it being snowy and December and everything.
We ended up starting a story really late and with me only intending on reading one chapter, while Davies had to be persuaded to even stay and listen to that as he’d wanted me to read something else instead. We have had The Iron Woman
After some peeking at the snow and lamenting that I’m working all day tomorrow so won’t be around to play with them in it they both went off to bed. Ady finished cooking dinner, I had a bath and we watched Gavin and Stacey.