I worked this morning. It went fairly quickly but I am feeling fairly uninspired at the moment. The nightmare colleague isn’t helping and she was in today although she wouldn’t normally be so that wrongfooted me. I did snap at her rather too when she annoyed me which actually might be preferable to pussyfooting round her and internalising all about her that winds me up. I’d also snapped at someone who had parked way too close to the edge of my drive in a great big camper van which meant pulling out at a dodgy angle with zero visibility round her big van. We live opposite a doctors surgery which appears to not have sufficient parking so our street gets used as a carpark with no concern or courtesy for us residents.
Julie had Davies and Scarlett so Ady took them there on his way to work and I headed over when I finished at 1pm. Quite nice to be in the car all alone for half an hour or so and listen to what I want on the cdplayer (Deacon Blue this afternoon for anyone interested).
They’d had a lovely morning all playing together out in the garden and it’s lovely to see Lorna becomming part of the dynamic too.I have far more of a relationship with her myself than I did with Jack and Maisie when they were small – although I do have a relationship with both of them now they are older and Maisie will often come for a cuddle and Jack and I laugh at the same things quite a lot it’s been a slow paced thing whereas Lorna is quite happy to have cuddles from me now :).
I arrived and Julie was in a flat spin about totally overcommitting herself for the afternoon so we headed straight out again and we followed her to the stables. I sat in my car parked next to hers watching over a sleeping Lorna while Julie fed and mucked out Honey and the four older children played on the muck heap.
Next we went to her mechanics for a new windscreen to be fitted for her where I completely cocked up driving in and kept going way past the sensible place to turn round and ended up in a car lot with zero manouvering space doing a 23 point turn to get my bus of a car turned round with a nice big audience of blokey mechanics. Davies and Scarlett joined in with my chant of ‘oh bloody bum!’ 😆
Julie then transfered all car seats and children into a courtesy car and we headed off to PYO. We had a very nice couple of hours there picking apples, raspberries and sweetcorn :).
We had a detour home due to a closed road so it was a hasty tea and then a pile of books including some ex-library books I’d picked up to keep: which was gorgeous, I love Colin Thompsons writing and illustrations, for pure silliness and then in response to begging for ‘one more story pleeeeease’ I read which is just fab and we’d really recommend :).
Ady spent some time gathering things like a holdall and a groundsheet that are on Davies’ kit list. He has most things ready now but we need to check he has 7 pairs of trousers to take (they need a change of clothes for each day) and label everything. We also put some credit on a free sim card in one of our old phones so he needs to practise gettiing his sleeping bag in and out of the stuff sack and making phone calls. Way too many landmark moments all at once.
WAY too many! The camp Anna’s going to next week doesn’t allow them to keep their mobiles with them. Steve says she shouldn’t take it anyway! They have a ‘welfare’ team and seem quite hot on that side of things, and they reckon that if kids do have access to a phone at any time, it’s more likely to exacerbate the homesickness feeling rather than telling someone there about it. They have an allocated half hour after dinner for kids to come and get their phones and use them then hand them back in! I dunno – Anna’s not likely to feel homesick anyway – I can see their point though.
Comment by Sarah — 14 August 2009 @ 5:55 am