Conspiracy Theories…

I worked this morning. Lucy and The Rs were here to look after Davies and Scarlett for the last time and finished on a high note with them all seeming to mostly get on well and plenty of outdoor play once I got home. Davies and Scarlett reprised their lavendar selling stall although I don’t think they made any money today – maybe they need some sort of marketing plan ‘new season sale’ or something? 😆

Work was fine, I spent the first hour doing a new display in the children’s area. I started with the idea of doing some sort of dragons and fairies type thing but decided against it and went with an under the sea theme instead. It looks pretty good and I’ve managed to use loads of illustrations from books to do it complete with cut outs of the front cover of loads of sea themed story and non-fiction books. One of the relief staff who works sometimes, Maria, is a children’s book illustrator so her and I had an interesting conversation about that – the idea of freelance work is so appealing, it’s just finding the right line that people want to pay someone to come and do for them. I then spent ages reading through the very comprehensive notes on Story time and Rhyme time from a recent top level staff meeting which apparently had a very surreal quality to it with heavy discussions about the best rhymes and why – makes my thread on here look very frivilous :lol:.

Lucy and chatted while the children played inside and out and then they headed off and Davies and Scarlett did a quick tidy up while I cooked their tea. It was Badgers tonight. We were slightly early due to lack of traffic so I pulled up on the beach to take some photos as it was a lovely sunset with the tide out. The barriers for the wood clearing operation had been knocked down so I was able to clamber down to a bit of the beach that’s been closed – and couldn’t resist grabbing a small piece of the wood to bring home :). Most of the wood has been cleared right up onto the stones and is now being smashed up by machinery. Presumably it is too water damaged / loose from it’s ties or just too big a job to recollect it so they are breaking it all up and I guess will come and shred it perhaps before moving it away as sawdust or something. I might try and go down again to get some better pictures as it is still amazing to see all stacked up along the beaches.

I saw in the car and read some of my book and played with Scarlett’s DS. I did have to keep turning the engine on to put the heater on though – it was cold. They iced biscuits today – Davies had done a very good owl which all the leaders were complimenting him on and they made a point of telling me how artistic he is :). Scarlett got her Badger uniform today so we tried to take some photos of her when we got home. Unfortunately they are more reflective of Scarlett as a person than or Scarlett in uniform – and the few with Davies in the background are equally demonstrative of them 😆

Ady had arrived home and run a bath for them. We then read them a chapter of the current story (The Aardvark who wasn’t sure) each before they went off to bed and we watched Torchwood.

I had a long chat to Julie on the phone, she was slightly hysterical as she’d misdialled our number and got some bloke. Except instead of establishing it was a wrong number and no Goddard’s lived there the person happened to know us and kept Julie talking for about 10 minutes introducing himself and explaining how he lived with his mother and promising that if she misdialled again it must mean something and he’d have to take her out for a candlelit dinner. Can you guess who it was?

Coincidence? Or some elaborate phone tapping scam they have going on over there as well as reading my blog. I have warned her to expect a Thank You card for such a nice wrong number call :lol:.