Been feeling a bit meh the last couple of days and I did start typing a really whiny blog post but actually having just read it back it annoyed even me let alone putting it out there for other people to read, so we’ll move past that.
We went down to the school yesterday for the World Book Day event. It was actually a really good turn out with Deb, Eve and Joss (obviously!), Fliss, Ali, Claire, Nicola, Trudi, Mel, Em and the four of us. We’d been asked to bring along our favourite book to share. Ady took Hobby Farmer, I took a copy of Barefoot Diaries, Davies took Mr Gum and a Roald Dahl and Scarlett took a beautifully illustrated old copy of a book on birds, eggs and nests. It was ok – Deb tried really hard and in theory it was a nice morning but it was just so bloody schooly and contrived and false that it makes my teeth itch. First we were supposed to mingle and drink tea and eat cake and talk about our favourite books. I sat and read a book to Scarlett instead. Then we sat in a circle and all talked about what we had learned about other people’s books and what we had brought with us.
Then Deb handed out some pictures of dragons with the writing taken away and asked us to get into groups and write our own words. They were gorgeous illustrations and most people wrote beautiful tales to go with their picture. I worked with Davies and Ady. Davies, who channels quite a lot of his inner Nic decided to write about how the dragon was a merdragon who kills mermaids and was working with a gangsta vigilante dolphin called Bob. It was quite dark 😉
There was then an option to stay and do some art but we wanted to get back for Bonnie really so after reading another book to Davies and Scarlett which we had read years ago when I worked at the library and remembered as lovely (Deb does have very good taste in books) so we headed off.
Back at home we had lunch and Ady tidied the bookcase while I did some knitting.
Today was work for Ady and I in the morning. It’s been crazy windy all day, a real WTF feeling about life here this week a couple of times. Various reasons but it all feels a bit hard when the weather is like this, particularly as it is supposed to be spring!!!
Post Office was ok, I walked along and met Ady, we came home for lunch and have been in all afternoon and evening. Actually we talked ourselves out of the WTF feeling over the course of the afternoon and evening and had a good chat with the kids. And now finally the wind has dropped and although Monday is looking scarily windy it is supposed to be quite nice tomorrow so we may even get outside and get some productive stuff done.