A work all day day for me today. Thanks to various rota based jiggery pokery I worked with NC again today. In a team of just 4 or 5 people having to work with one I struggle with so much really taints the day.
It was mostly fine though – I did Baby Rhyme time and then went out at lunchtime to buy stamps, writing paper and envelopes for Davies to take to camp with him.
Our resident elderly gentleman with altzheimers was around all afternoon. He said he’d forgotten his glasses when he first came in, then proceeded to come back to the desk no less than 4 times to ask whether his glasses had been handed in. At one point I assured him they were at home and he got very suspicious and narrowed his eyes at me and said ‘How do you know that?’.
I had a long phone conversation with someone who wanted to order a novel in in Spanish as he felt the translated version was rubbish and wanted to engage me in discussions about books in foreign languages. My only real knowledge in this area comes from my Tricolore French text book when I was 13 and possibly The Giants and The Joneses which has much referencing of IgglyPlops. I am perhaps not the best person to chat to about such things 😆
I then spent ages looking at fantasticfiction and ordering all the upcoming chicklit books to ensure I am high on the waiting list and therefore get brand new copies.
Ady took Davies and Scarlett to work with him all day today. He was doing price surveys which is sort of Mystery Shopper style work which doesn’t involve him having to actually talk to anyway and the children actually assist in a cover of him wandering round garden centres, especially in school holidays. They had a nice day although Scarlett said she missed me and had drawn me a little picture of her crying looking at a picture of her and I together :(. Much though I am going to miss Davies (about as much as if someone cut my arm off I suspect) I am quite looking forward to the one to one time with Tarly.
They all got home about five minutes after I did. Davies had taken his mobile phone out with him for the day so I’d had various text messages from him throughout the day which was very sweet and slightly unnerving. I hope he is equally as communicative next week ;).
Scarlett and I nipped out again to Sainsburys for a couple of things and to B&Q for some paintbrushes and some wood treatment. We also had a quick look round the aquatics shop next door to Sainsburys where Scarlett chatted to the man who worked there about lobsters and rays.
Back home again and the kids and I painted our new mini shed with green wood preserver. It’s a water damaged B&Q bargain of a ‘lads shed’ which is going to be our new chicken house.
Was quite tempted to pick up on our chicken song curriculum by painting our left knees green but decided Davies turning up at camp with a green knee might mark him out as different ;).
The kids had their tea and then came out to join me for the last panel of painting and then we came back inside and played one game of a Very Hungry Caterpillar board game Davies wanted to play before they got into pjs and I read them which was very lovely.
I’m very torn between not wanting tomorrow to come and wanting it to bloody hurry up and get here so we can move on past it as quick as possible. Davies is very excited and that is making me feel much better, if he was having reservations it would be much harder to put on a brave face and convince him, as it is I am quite capable of being happy for him and excited on his behalf whilst knowing its perfectly okay to be feeling sad about missing him.