Fishing in the rivers of life

(Bet LovelyEm knows what song that’s from)
Work for me this morning while Davies and Scarlett went over to Liza and Andrew’s. Ady managed to arrange his day so he could take them for me but as I got straight up and helped him chivy them out of the house I spent the half hour in the house alone getting ready rather than relaxing and drinking tea this time.

Work was busy as Wednesday mornings often are. We talked a fair bit about Emilie and all agreed we have all been feeling, well I guess sad is the word, since last week. I think that is probably what has been the matter with me actually, the crappy sleeping and the low level feeling blue going on in the background. Everyone seemed to have felt the same so it was quite theraputic to go and chat about it.

I went to collect Davies and Scarlett and have a cup of tea and very quick chatette with Liza and then we went to the park to meet Lucy and The Rs. They all seemed to get on really well for the hour and a half we were there. Lucy and I froze – it was soooo cold.

Home for tea for the children and then back out again for Badgers. Ady was home in time to come with us. I think they mostly played games there tonight as it was a small turnout, presumably due to firework night. Ady and I had a walk to Lidl and Waitrose where I got some new gloves (girls ones, one pair of dark pink woolly gloves with a pale pink pair of fingerless ones for 99pence, bargain! :)) and we ogled the baking stuff (crystalised rose and violet petals, lavender sugar, rose water, essence of chocolate – baking porn! 😆 ).

There were various local firework displays tonight including one at the beach which didn’t start until 830pm and had a (very expensive) fairground at the same place. We’d have either had to hang around for an hour after Badgers there or come in and then be bothered to turn out again later which would have made a late night. There was also a display at the pub across the road so we decided to make for there as it had already started by the time we got there. We watched about 15 minutes of impressive fireworks there in the light of an enormous bonfire and then had a walk around the block spotting fireworks in all directions.

Indoors to the warm and dry for bedtime stories for the children while Ady cooked dinner.