What a blah day today was 🙁 I got loads done – sorted out piles of washing (everything in the house is clean now, it all just needs putting away) – realised today it was too cold on the concrete patio to be pegging out washing in bare feet – oh the season is achangin’. And I listed 35 items on ebay – piles of outgrown clothes from D&S’s bedrooms. There is more, oh so much more to list but that’s a good start. Am rather pleased with myself for marketing a load of S’s summer dresses as ‘party dresses’ which will hopefully sell for the Christmas season – or maybe people will see through my cunning marketing ploy and not bid for them :lol:. We’d planned to do a car boot sale this month but all our weekends filled up so I’m determined to ebay or freecycle all our junk. Realised that there are plenty of smaller than D&S children coming to NicCamps in November so will take any unsold bits there for first grabs from friends and freecycle anything left after that. We’ve got a pushchair and 2 Britax carseats cluttering up a large area in the back of our Narniaesque wardrobes which I want to get rid of too and several bin bags full of clothes, including lots of coats which should sell well, in the garage.
So I mostly ebayed and did various other bits on line. The whole photo of the plane crash thing has gone quiet now. We are expecting two payments for use of the photos which will go straight to RAFA. The whole episode has just been horrible, from a personal family point of view to the fact someone died in the first place. I think I’ve been in delayed shock from the whole thing today as I’ve been on the verge of tears most of the day and very short and snappy with the children, feeling like I’ve had some sort of personal loss. Anyway, I don’t want to dwell on the whole thing any longer and am very aware that whatever the effects have been on me and mine it is nothing compared to the grief the pilots family will be feeling so I’ll shut up about it now.
Davies and Scarlett mostly occupied themselves. They played with Betty Spaghetty (although amusingly they were making her play out a Doctor Who game :lol:), looked at a couple of educational toys catalogues that arrived in the post this morning, did some drawing, played with foam blocks, danced to Crazy Frog music, sat and politely pretended to be interested when I made them sit through Queen’s Greatest Hits so they could see quite what it is about the Crazy Frog version of ‘We are the champions’ that makes me wince (although I did feel like a real proper grown up moaning about them having ‘ruined a great original’ – I like Queen) and we looked up Freddy Mercury on wikipedia and talked about how old he was when he died, how long ago it was (1991, can you believe that?! :shock:), what illness he had (somehow Aids has come up before with Davies, not sure if it was in relation to Freddy Mercury or someone else famous now but he remembered my previous explanation) and how old he’d have been now. They played Tomb of Doom and I helped Davies made a dalek shaker maker. He has got to take in cardboard boxes to Badgers tomorrow as they are making 3d models of their bedrooms so I told him he needs to make a model dalek just like in his bedroom at home (bet that gets them talking at Badgers, although of course two of them were at the party so have already seen it!) and we decided the Shakermaker one would be ideal. We’ve also been singing this song lots as seen on youtube (it’s just soo catchy!). They played outside for a while too but it was just too cold to stay out for long, which scuppered my plan of a walk really too as it just wasn’t appealing enough to persuade me to wrap up.
Freddie the saved from the jaws of the fox chicken seems ok, a bit subdued and not totally ‘right’ though so I wonder if s/he sustained injuries we can’t see, or whether it’s just in shock. Will see how it fares over the next few days. We’ve shut them away more securely tonight so hopefully if the fox does return it will just keep walking tonight.
I took Davies to his swimming lesson tonight. He tried really hard but is easily the least able in the group I would say, he really concentrates and does what he’s told but his body just doesn’t seem to be designed for swimming! He is utterly confident at being in the water though so at least that is not holding him back. I am sure that more practise would help so it’s something we really must try and build in for him to get but needs to be one to one, so either leaving Scarlett at home with one of us, or bringing her with us and both Ady and I going. Will have to see what we can sort out. I have total sympathy with him though, I remember being told to concentrate on the same ceiling as he is looking at while trying to swim on his back 20 odd years ago and finding it every bit as impossible as he seems to. He looks forward to the lesson each week though and I guess some progress is being made even if it feels very slow. Dinner for the children seems to get later all the time with it being really tough feeding them tea before Beavers, Badgers and Swimming three nights of the week so I can see them edging closer to eating with us and us bringing our dinner times forward. Not sure how that would work out in practise but it’s something to think about in the not too distant future.
Back to work tomorrow which I’m rather looking forward to, I missed being there last week and Ady is home with D&S (I’m only working the morning) and debating whether to take them both off to work with him in the morning so he’s back for Badgers or just take Scarlett in the afternoon and then it doesn’t matter if they’re back for Badgers. It’s all very complicated working round these early evening clubs and stuff.
I need to ebay some stuff too but am procrastinating (waiting for a free listing day to come up)!
Comment by Sarah — 19 September 2007 @ 7:21 am
Sarah, get Turbo Lister or similar, so you can write up all teh listings now and be prepared for a free listing day 🙂
Comment by Alison — 19 September 2007 @ 8:36 am
We’ve got loads to list as well – I hate doing it though, dealing with all the mad ebay people. it is a major stress.
Comment by layla — 19 September 2007 @ 9:00 am
ach, no, Alison, that would be too organised! [watch the free listing day arrive while I’m in Kessingland now I’ve said that!]
Comment by Sarah — 19 September 2007 @ 2:41 pm