Today was my penultimate penultimate at work in that I have now done my penultimate Wednesday, Friday and Saturday shifts and now just have a penultimate Thursday shift to go before I am on Last Shifts.
Ady took Davies and Scarlett off with him for the day, they went Ramgate way I think and had their lunch break walking round a lake, feeding some ducks and geese and talking to the woman who looks after them. I LOVE how buzzed up the three of them are after a day together and I also love althoug find hard, how much I miss the kids and they miss me when I work. It’s yet another indicator of how very right our plans for this year are – when there is nowhere you would rather be than with the other three members of your family it is only right that you make every compromise, every sacrifce and every endeavour to make it so. It won’t be long before Davies and Scarlett have other people and places they want to be so while it is our company they crave it would be crazy to do anything other than answer that really…
I did Rhyme Time with C, who will be taking it over. She did a fab job and I had to step in just once or twice when she wobbled but if I’d not been there she would have been just fine. In the afternoon I spent time plotting with my militant colleague S to try and do *something* for Save Our Libraries Day on Saturday 5th February when there is a national initiative to visit your local public library to join, take our books, read stories and just show your support. I also talked to the woman from the local ornithological society who has a display of bird photographs up at the moment about how Scarlett had identified them all. She is a retired teacher and on the strength of me telling her about Tarly invited her to come and join the local bird watching group. I explained we were off travelling and she made me promise to get in touch when we get home so Tarly can join up. Needless to say Tarly was most thrilled when I told her this :).
Back home we all caught up with each others days and did Bad, Good, Learnt today:
Scarlett:
Bad: Davies stole my bad
Good: Saw lots of red kites
Learnt: kites are named after the birds
Davies:
Bad: Long time in the car today
Good: Went to a duck park
Learnt: When a goose breaks it’s wing it is left with a bump where the break was.
Ady:
Bad: Drove a very long way for a five minute visit
Good: Lovely hour walking round a lake with the kids
Learnt: The best before date on crisps is always a Saturday
Nic:
Bad: Missed Davies & Scarlett today
Good: My penultimate Friday
Learnt: National Save Our Library day on Saturday 5th February
Ady went off to get bits for dinner while the kids and I read some stories. Davies came and talked to me in the bath for ages about Home Ed having watched Ady cut up a whole chicken (it was cheaper than just the breasts so the carcass is being boiled up for soup) and being given a swift biology lesson. I have a post in draft about celebrating the way we Home Ed but this was a lovely example of it and he came to me all fired up with enthusiasm about his freedom to learn all the time about the things he is interested in. 🙂
I probably have other stuff to say but I’m far too far into Friday night / Saturday morning to be remotely coherant so I won’t even try.
As a fellow radio 2 listener I find myself wondering which fact Ady is going to use in his learnt bit each day 🙂
Comment by Roslyn — 29 January 2011 @ 12:13 pm
Do you often guess right? He never listened to talking on radios before he worked in this job, but he spends hours every day sitting in the car now and regularly comes home with ‘on the radio today….’ stuff. 🙂
Comment by Nic — 29 January 2011 @ 3:00 pm
I love how Ady gets to spend some of his days with the kids, always sounds like they make such a nice day of it.
Shall have to see if our library is doing anything for the ‘save our library’ thing.
Comment by Kirsty — 29 January 2011 @ 6:39 pm
wondering if wings and arms are similar . . .
Comment by michelle — 31 January 2011 @ 12:11 am