A far better night with all children sleeping through but I managed to have a night full of very strange dreams including a few fellow bloggers which left me waking feeling more worn out than when I’d gone to bed 🙁
Headed off to Chichester where Ady dropped me off at his old school for the NCT nearly new sale and then he and the children went to Chris’. Last year I bought loads of stuff there, loads of clothes for both children, some waterproof dungarees, and plenty of toys. This year I only made one purchase of clothing – a jumper for Davies of the big and baggy style which makes him look Very Home Educated (he loves it 🙂 ) and erm, about 25 books! Lots of Ladybird classics, an enormous Richard Scarry one (it’s literally enormous, it stands about as tall as Tarly), a couple of nicely bound hardback classics (Peter Pan, Railway Children and Wizard of Oz, which have clearly never been reaed), some Usborne ones and a couple of collection books, one with spooky stories in it which will be good for Halloween. Also picked up a couple of videos but having done so well at last years I had higher hopes really. Jenny tells me there is the Worthing one happening next week so I’ll pop along to that and see if it makes up for it!
Julie and I headed back to their house and the children played in the garden while we chatted. I had still not really recovered from a restless night and my neck is sore and a headache was starting to brew too, so we came home fairly early from there and have spent a couple of hours at home looking at the books, watching X Factor and just sitting around.
Tomorrow Ady is planning the last gardening session of the year in the morning so I plan to either do some baking or some tidying with the children while he’s outside. Then in the evening we are going to Brighton to see Harry Hill. We bought tickets for us and Frazer as his birthday present back in May so we are planning a meal or at least a few drinks before the show, which should be very nice.
I think a pre-Christmas sort out of toys and books is in order, some of Davies’ birthday presents have still not found themselves permanent homes and the bookshelves are groaning again. It is hard to say goodbye to stuff which has been around for the last 5 years or so and the children always decide to suddenly start playing with toys again when I start to eye them up with a view to sending them off to the charity shop but Tarly is nearly 3 so some of the more junior puzzles, board books and stuff really could go on its way. Also I think the stash of stuff at my parents is probably a little outdated too so maybe some of the lesser played with stuff could head over there too.
Finally I am quietly and ineffectively seething having questioned Julie a little further on the whole willy incident of last weekend. It would seem that on discovering the tableau the mother of the flashee said a few things which I would have never dreamed of saying in similar circumstances infront of Davies. No wonder he won’t talk about it any further to me 🙁
Anyway, hopeful for an altogether less blah day tomorrow, and yes, Sarah, I’m glad we are able to have them without feeling anything other than blah about them. It would be awful to feel they were ‘lost days’ or anything other than the end of a long month.
Now Harry Hill I *do* like.
Comment by Chris — 01 October 2005 @ 8:58 pm