Monday
Vet’s first thing to take Malice back. As expected she had to have her eye removed. It was a straightforward procedure and they unwired her jaw at the same time. She now looks very beaten again as she was shaved around the eye, under the chin and on her leg for various tubes and injections and she has stitches in the closed eye. She returned home slightly sorry for herself but in some ways a bit brighter than she’s been (which given the level of infection must have been causing her pain is probably no surprise) with a rather large invoice which my Dad has had to take care of on our behalf.
Malice dropped off the children and I popped into town where I had a couple of things to do including filling some forms in at the bank, which I bribed the children to be good and quiet while I did with the promise of sweets from Woolworths. This is not really a tried and tested method for me and tbh 9 times out of 10 when I do attempt it it doesn’t work anyway! But this time it did 🙂 So they got their sweeties. We also had a quick look in the charity shops and netted a W&G toy rabbit for Davies and a little wooden box complete with pink sparkly bead bracelet and heart shaped ring for Tarly – for the princely sum of 30 pence each. I also picked up a couple of videos. I have embarked upon a weight loss challenge with an online friend for which the only intended effort to succeed is no weekday drinking of alcohol, smaller portion sizes of our usual meals and ‘some’ exercise. My planned exercise is to dance along to patronising teenagers teaching dance routines to Britney, S Club 7 and Kylie songs as taught on ‘Wow! Let’s Dance 6’ purchased for just 50pence and to follow the advertsised ‘fun dance-based routines’ on Anne Diamond’s ‘How I lost four stone’ video – also 50 pence. So if in just ten days you wonder who that svelte willowy woman is showing up on my flickr photostream it might be me (or one of my skinny mates!). 😆
Once home I was generally impatient and ranty, the reason for which became clear later 🙄 but putting that aside Davies did some spelling using some magnetic letters placed on the fireguard. He spelt ‘man’ ‘vets’ and the beginning of ‘went’ which was where I lost my temper so we stopped there. 🙁 We then looked at the last lesson we’d done in 100EL about a year ago and he was reminded that he ‘can’ read, he just needs to put a bit more thought and effort into it than he somehow expects to have to. Anyway, let’s leave that there as it was only a tiny part of the day and was pretty much all me being intolerant rather than him being anything other than a five year old, for which I believe he has adequate excuses! 😉
We had a play with some papier mache but all quickly lost interest in that and then I went and did some more tidying up in the playroom. I now have a good pile of stuff ready for ebaying but as we are away from next Thursday now would be a bad time to start a listing, so it will have to wait til we get back home again.
Then it was time to collect Malice so we went back to the vets and waited for about half an hour in a really busy waiting room. It looked just like a jigsaw puzzle I once had of a vets waiting room with all sorts of shapes and sizes of animals including a tortoise in a carrier, a couple of dogs and various cats, rabbits and so on. I think we have now read every single book in the waiting room, complete with comedy regional accents depending on how busy it is and how much of an audience are also there pretending not to listen.
Once home Davies wanted to play a game so I suggested Set which we’ve had in the house since Jax did the initial co-op buy of them but I’ve never actually played. Davies loves ‘spot the difference’ games so I thought it might be his sort of thing. And it was 🙂 He loved it! Tarly was our dealer, putting more cards out as requested and randomly shouting ‘set!’ for amusement. Davies did really well though, totally got to grips with it and was easily able to explain why sets were sets. So we’ll be playing that again I reckon. Far rather a game like that than monopoly or snakes and ladders!
Today
Ady came home last night and announced he was visiting Reading store today so a quick check with Alison that she was free and we arranged to go and visit her while Ady worked. So up at horrid o’clock this morning and we arrived mid morning with her. The children all went off and played, just coming back for food and drink and to offer lateral thinking questions as and when inbetween playing, leaping about in the paddling pool and watching TV. A lovely day :-).
And now, I really, really, really need to go to bed and catch up on some sleep!
“Malice dropped off the children” – she’s driving already? Damn she’s good 😉
Hugs really about it all. Will come back and read more later when i don’t need to procrastinate anymore!
Comment by Merry — 09 August 2006 @ 9:32 am
Hmm, think a ‘with’ at the beginning of that sentence might have gone astray. 😆 Told you I was tired!
Comment by Nic — 09 August 2006 @ 9:54 am
Was starting to think you were ill 😉
Poor Malice (nad sorry about the £££s)
Comment by layla — 09 August 2006 @ 9:56 am
And stretch, two, three, four, bend, two, three, four….. 🙂
I have some DVD’s you can borrow if you like. Also I think possibly some videos.
Comment by Roslyn — 09 August 2006 @ 10:12 am
I read the beginning of that sentence several times, before I read on and finally understood it. A comma would have done too 😉
Was nice to have our last minute day together, hope the traffic was ok on the way home.
Comment by Alison — 09 August 2006 @ 4:34 pm