I had work today. Ady took Davies & Scarlett with him on a big circuitous drive along the coast and back into Kent taking in Dover, Ramsgate and other such places. They seemed to have a nice day and managed to fit in some educational stuff along the way.
Work for me was fine, I have been rather stripped of duties which makes for a slightly boring full day really. But I talked to borrowers including my old History teacher from secondary school – not sure who was most ‘eeek’ about the fact that was nearly 25 years ago! I’ve spotted her coming into the library before and been fairly sure it was her but today I served her so was able to check on her ticket to see her name. I said ‘you used to teach me History’ and she peered at me and said yes, my face did look familiar but she couldn’t name me. I told her my (maiden) name and she said she remembered it, which given she taught there for over 20 years so would have had thousands of girls on her registers was pretty impressive I thought. She said if she’d not been a teacher she’d have liked to have been a librarian so I said I was only part time and Home Ed my own children the rest of the time which she was very interested in. She was a good teacher, one of the ones I think was there for all the right reasons although she said today that if she went back and did it all over again she probably wouldn’t have stayed in teaching so long (she is now retired). Which I guess probably backs up my theory that she went into it for the right reasons I suppose…
I did get a phone call from Mike at the Letting Agents to say our tenants have been in to collect paperwork and pay a security holding deposit of £300. We talked about potential dates and I’ll ring him tomorrow with our proposed date to be out of 15th February which gives us 3 weeks and would only mean a week staying at parents (or in van – still not heard from parents…). I’m planning to hand my notice in on Saturday, giving four weeks notice and Ady will hand his in as soon as the paperwork is all completed, hopefully mid to end of next week.
I got home and Tarly had me a cup of tea ready :), we all caught up with each others days and did bad, good, learnt today:
Davies:
Bad: Felt sorry for Scarlett that she couldn’t get up the sea defences at Dover
Good: I could climb up!
Learnt: About how pilots used white cliffs of Dover as a marker when flying in the war.
Scarlett
Bad: Hurt my knee trying to get up
Good: Found lots of pretty shells
Learnt: About red flags to show high winds and tides
Ady
Bad: Crazy mileage today for nothing really worthwhile
Good: I fixed the oven 🙂
Learnt: The actor from Robinson Crusoe still lives on an island
Nic
Bad: Really long afternoon at work
Good: Tenants collected paperwork from agents & paid security deposit
Learnt: Interesting local history photos from colleage of a large vault in Shoreham
I read a bit from the Romans in the book we started last night and the kids went to bed. Tomorrow we have a busy day starting with the mechanic coming to look at Willow at 830am.
Glad that the tenants are being quick so far, hope it stays that way. Also hope Willow is well on her way to being roadworthy by now.
Comment by Kirsty — 21 January 2011 @ 9:08 am