I worked all day today. I had a fairly frustrating day as I spent much of it chasing around trying to mop up after a very poorly executed attempt to run the Adur festival events had gone tits up and from the opposite extreme of events with barely anyone turning up we had an event for tonight scheduled that we’d managed to sell more tickets than actually existed for.
Another of those times I wish for a cloning machine, as trumpet in a case with my name on it in hand, I know I could turn around the marketing and event management for the local group of libraries so easily and would love to do it, but I’m simply not in a position to pitch myself forward for the job at the moment…. unless of course those LA bods who are going to be talking to Davies and Scarlett without me being around are prepared to formalise the arrangement and have them every other Wednesday morning so I can skip off to work?…. 😉
I also spent some time planning the display for this years Summer Reading Game which seems to have meant I’ll be making a papier mache dragon…not at all sure how I managed ended up volunteering for that.
Ady was home in the morning and my Mum was here in the afternoon but as far as I can tell that was largely irrelevant as Davies and Scarlett spent the entire day in the garden. They harvested some potatoes (which they had for dinner with salmon), discovered yet another place hens have been laying eggs which means we have an egg glut and played Indiana Jones.
I got in and made their tea and then we watched Bedtime Stories which I’d brought home from work. By the end of that Ady was home so we had a group chat about the Badman review with me doing lots of ranting, Ady doing lots of anecdotes about social workers from his youth and the children swinging between indignant and outraged and rather nervous. My opinion is that it is about as bad as we fretted it might possibly be, I hope it’s one of those extreme ‘we’ll ask for everything to change and bargain down from there’ type things and that we’re ready to fight to the end and emigrate if all else fails really.
We watched Springwatch where we all got ‘what we learnt today’ (or hereafter called WWLT for brevity) facts about fledglings and leatherback turtles- although my WWLT was a new word – lenticular – which I learnt at work. I’ve somehow managed to drink a whole bottle of red wine while cooking and eating dinner but have bypassed drunk and gone straight to tired so I’m off to bed as we’ve, as usual, got a mad few days coming up.