I had a really bad nights sleep, I think it was too warm in the bedroom which threw me into a really heavy sleep that I then kept surfacing from and feeling really groggy. I had some very vivid dreams, mostly about the ducks including one where they had flown back to our house. I then laid awake for a while before falling back asleep and then really struggled to wake up this morning, sleeping right past the big deal of today that was 10:10:10:10:10:10. I’ll have to try harder next year for 11:11:11:11:11:11 😉
Ady and Scarlett had a productive morning washing Ady’s car and the campervan, Davies watched some of the Ben 10 extravaganza he’s been looking forward to (Cartoon Network making full use of the 10:10:10 thing to launch a new Ben 10 series today) and I went through the downstairs bathroom clearing all the cupboards, throwing stuff out and adding to the pile of stuff to try and sell.
We had lunch and all sat for an hour or so watching TV, we ended up getting drawn into a Sarah-Jane Adventures episode. We needed to go to the tip with a couple of bags of rubbish and some outgrown bikes which were just too old, rusty and tired to be worth passing on and to get some petrol for the van which is being serviced tomorrow and was on red. We’ve charged the battery but we still can’t get it started so I am hoping the mechanic will work his magic on it tomorrow but wanted to at least present him with a vehicle with charge in the battery and fuel in the tank.
On the way back home Scarlett bemoaned not having been to the beach for ages. I offered to take them tomorrow but she wanted to go with ‘all of the family’ so we nipped home to collect fleeces and headed to the beach for an hour or so. It was high tide and just gorgeously sunny. We clambered rocks, played chicken with the waves (the waves won!), collected some sea glass, skimmed stones and reminded ourselves how lucky we are to live so close to the beach :). Just lovely.
We came home and Ady got dinner on while I packed up a load of stuff we’d sold on ebay. We’d not sold any of the loads of videos we’d listed so I have put them in the local free ad listings for a week and then we’ll freecycle them / give to a charity shop.
We had dinner, watched X Factor and I saw the beginning of The Apprentice having only caught the end on Wednesday.