I finally got round to digging out my car MOT certificate which I knew was about to run out any day and discovered today was indeed that day. Booked it in for Monday lunchtime and won’t need to drive it before then so that’s fine, now just need to keep fingers firmly crossed it gets through with minimal expense.
I drafted a resignation letter for one of Ady’s colleagues (I seem to be in charge of all the CVs, application forms and covering letters, interview advice etc for most of his colleagues. I guess if I’m helping with resignation letters now too it means there is success happening with the other bits :)) and emailed that across. It reminded me of the careful wording on several of my resignation letters. With B&Q there was none required for my transfers and promotions but my actual leaving the company altogether after 6 years came as a blow and I was offered all sorts of incentives to stay. My recruitment consultant letter had to be handed in to the MD of the whole company who happened to be covering our branch at the time. She was shocked as she’d had no idea how dreadful the job role had become for myself and my colleague (who left at the same time). I didn’t use the opportunity to enlighten her either, maybe I should have done. Leaving Clintons was a blow to my boss but not a shock – he knew that unless he was to leave there was no career path for me as his was the only job above mine and he wasn’t going anywhere. Leaving the next job was by mutual agreement so no resignation letter required – probably my behaviour could be considered an elaborate form of resignation ;). Leaving Bhs was a relief -the manager actually told me I’d made the right decision in leaving – the bitch! Leaving my Sales Office Manager job was no problem – I was moving 250 miles away. I think I almost always had a tone in the ‘it is with some regret…’ line though 😆
Davies and Scarlett were playing upstairs and I was sorting out laundry when Lucy and The Rs arrived. The Rs went up to join D and S and all seemed fairly harmonious allowing Lucy and I the chance to chat and catch up. The children went outside to play for a while and came in when they got hungry at lunchtime. Unfortunately they never quite recovered their equilibrium after lunch. A dvd was put on but Scarlett decided they were not all behaving well enough to watch it (in fairness Ms R hadn’t wanted to, I suspect she was just making her feelings known), then Scarlett got all precious about not letting anyone play with her Noah’s Ark – understandable, it’s only a few days old and she doesn’t even let Davies play with it and then started sobbing about Davies and Rebecca playing Connect 4 as she claimed that had been a birthday present to her too. I put a stop to that as it was getting ridiculous. She had come in from outside all blue lipped and shivery and I think she was feeling rough and a bit delicate, but that’s no excuse for being quite so unreasonable.
The final straw was Scarlett trying to get involved in some sort of sibling spat between Richard and Rebecca and getting walloped, so as we’d spent the final half an hour or so lurching from one wailing interuption to the next Lucy made the executive decision that the visit was over and they headed off. On this occassion I think the boys did fine and both of the girls were being difficult in their own ways. Bless ’em…
Everything calmed down after that and Davies and Scarlett sat very happily side by side with their DSs connecting and assisting each other with various levels.
I got out a large cardboard box I wanted to make into a fireplace for a display at work and cut out a section and then mixed up some brown paint to paint the rest. Scarlett decided to help me so we did that together.
We put CBBC on and watched that, the kids had a late dinner as Ady had picked up some of the things I needed to actually make it and didn’t get home til gone 6pm. We read a couple of chapters of the current Littlenose book we’re on and the kids went off to bed.
I’ve started knitting a hat for myself and I spent some time cutting old Christmas cards from last year into little circles to make baubles for the Christmas Tree which is starting to look pretty. Will do some more of them tomorrow and ice the biscuits I made too.