On the up

but nothing to sing about.

Work for me today so I went off leaving Davies and Scarlett with Dad and hoping to be coming home later to a snuggly warm house. Ady had suggested I ring in sick as Scarlett had joined me in bed and I’d had a rotten nights sleep, woken with a stiff neck and my cough has peaked today into the spluttering of a bronchal old geezer with a 50 a day habit rather than the genteel young lady I usually portray. But I thought I’d be better off at work, keeping busy and all that.

I’d not factored in that having not been to work for nearly 2 weeks everything would be piled up waiting for my return. As I said to Ady I am pleased my work is challenging and interesting and varied as I’d be very bored if it weren’t but it is tough when by virtue of only working 11 hours a week I am really the most junior assistant there but thanks to the various things I have picked up responsibility for I seem to treated as one of the more senior ones. So a pile of notes, emails, paperwork, course details for various things I’ve been booked on and a load of stuff sent through about Chatterbooks all awaited me. I dealt with the urgent stuff, passed some on to someone else to do for me and brought some of it home. While I was doing all this and alternately coughing and blowing my nose Wendy came to ask me if I could do storytime as Helen, who was supposed to be doing it wasn’t feeling well and didn’t feel up to it.

So with about 10 minutes prep time to quickly read through the stories first I led 18 children in singing, colouring and read them 3 stories. As at Badgers last night the thought did cross my mind ‘what on earth am I doing here???’

And then I had lunch! 😆

The afternoon was rather less fraught and brought the rather excellent news that Nightmare Colleague has handed her notice in. This is a massive relief to one and all and will hopefully have a very quick, very positive impact on the atmosphere at work. Am very pleased :).

Came home to find Mark The Plumber (yes, his middle name is The and his last name is Plumber, he had very little choice but to go into the trade really, we have a Saturday lad at work called James Butcher and are always telling him to choose a career accordingly, I favour serial killer :lol:) had been, removed old boiler, fitted new boiler, left gaping hole in kitchen wall (which Ady has put perspex to cover overnight, it was like having a door open in there!) and is coming back tomorrow to finish off and make it create hot water and central heating. It’s very nice, shiny, compact and expensive looking, which of course is accurate really ;).

Read some stories including the rather excellent , and which had come through for Chatterbooks so I brought home to show the kids and see what they thought and the first half of which was interupted by a phonecall from Caz, as she said ‘calling from the other side of the world. And the future’ where it was tomorrow morning in New Zealand. They have very exciting news which I’ve caught bits of in facebook chats and emails but was desperate to hear the full story so enjoyed a catch up with her :).

Am very much hoping that 12 hours from now all will be warm and cosy.