Today’s job list included making a cake for the party on Saturday and moving more boxes to Mum & Dad’s. I also had a couple of online bits to do including a sponsored post which I was rather agonising over. I did some of the online stuff while Tarly finished a painting she was doing then we went along to Sainsburys for cake ingredients. On the way home Ady rang and Davies took the call as I was driving and asked me to ring him back. I did and he said he’d just crashed his car 🙁 He’d been in nose to tail stop: start traffic and managed to start rather than stop and go up the back of someone. It all seemed quite amicable and was at about 20mph so no injury and no real damage done but as new cars do they had both creased up a fair bit. I told him to go and get a coffee and calm down, to ring work and tell them and to ring me back as he was in a bit of a state. He’d managed to not get any details off the other driver, who had taken his business card and reg number. Ady was clearly at fault so it doesn’t matter too much as I guess the other driver will be in touch but it did occur to me they may not be insured. It also means there is likely to be paperwork and further contact needed to sort it out after Ady leaves although he talked to the HR manager this evening and they may pay for the repairs on the two cars rather than claim on the company insurance in which case Ady won’t be needed for anything.
I got cracking on the baking and we had lunch, I finished the rest of the online stuff I needed to do and then Ady came home for a coffee. He gave me a hand loading my car up with the first run of boxes and some bits for the tip including the old battery off the van which needed to go in for recycling. We took a load to Dads via the tip and then came home for a second load. The dalek is now at Mum & Dad’s and all that is left now is the kitchen which we’ll clear on Friday.
The cake went better than anticipated and is already assembled and iced and just needs decorating now which I’ll do on Friday. I can’t quite believe how well my planning is going. There, now I’ve jinxed it!
Davies and Scarlett were desperate for a sleepover, which amuses me so much – they spend all day, every day together, will be sharing a bunk in the van for the year yet still beg to sleep in the same room now. I was so adamant they would have their own bedrooms because I felt personal space was so important – I guess they may be less keen to be together all the time by the end of the year ;).
I fed the kids, Ady chainsawed the last of the firewood which should pretty much perfectly last us til next week and we all watched One Man & His Campervan. We did bad, good, learnt:
Davies:
Bad: Hurt my leg
Good: Finished emptying my bedroom
Learnt: Martin Dorey (One Man & His Campervan) can speak French
Scarlett:
Bad: I thought there would be cinnamon rolls for breakfast and there wasn’t
Good: I finished my duck painting
Learnt: that more girls are abducted than boys
Ady:
Bad: I crashed my car
Good: No one was hurt
Learnt: it is easy to change your spouse at Costco
Nic:
Bad: Ady is blue 🙁
Good: Productive day
Learnt: About ebuzzing – wrote my first sponsored post and earned forty quid – blimey! Only took about 20 minutes to write 🙂
The kids went to bed, we had baths and I cooked dinner. Ady seems to be feeling a bit better about the whole car accident and promises me it won’t put a cloud over him for the rest of the week.
easy to change your spouse at costco?
Comment by michelle — 17 February 2011 @ 6:56 pm