Early start this morning as Davies and Scarlett were off to Liza and Andrew’s for the morning while I worked. Ady took them so everyone had left the house by about 8am leaving me nearly an hour home alone before work. I finished flickring from yesterday and enjoyed the peace of the house to myself :).
Work was fine, the morning went quick. I did some tidying while chatting – one colleague is training to be a driving instructor and has just passed one chunk of her exams for it so she was on a high and another colleague is learning to drive herself and had just passed part of her test too. Amazing how much more comprehensive driving tests are now than when I passed the 20 minute driving test 18 years ago (can it really be that long?). A good thing though I reckon given how irresponsible me and so many of my 17 year old friends were behind the wheel in our early weeks and months of driving.
Next I had an off hour when I am supposed to get on with any of my own tasks (we all have a few allotted jobs that we each do) but I didn’t have much to do (I am very efficient ;)) and so spent most of it chatting about The Apprentice and looking at the bbc website instead. I had tea with several colleague where we had a grown up conversation about food shopping and what things you would and wouldn’t change if you won the lottery. I admired a colleague’s new shoes and discovered they were the same brand as a pair I have been bidding on ebay on (and have won this evening, yay!).
I was on the counter next and finally the enquiry desk where aside from a brief chat with a young Home Educated girl about dog training books I didn’t have much else to do.
I left work and collected Davies and Scarlett from Liza. Davies was very pale and cold and saying he felt ill :(. We drove home and he agreed we’d go to the allotment briefly as I had a couple of things including watering that really needed doing. He seemed to perk up in the sunshine and fresh air (although he’d started feeling ill at the park so was getting sunshine and fresh air anyway ?) but we only stayed around an hour anyway. I’m hoping to get back up there tomorrow as there is some serious weeding to do and I now have some canes and netting for the peas to sort out.
Back at home they settled down to watch and got the plasticine out to make some stuff while they watched.
They had tea and then got ready for Badgers. This term they are doing Safety Badger and are planning a visit to the fire station, several of us have volunteered to go along and help with that trip ;). On the way we drove along the coast road with the windows open in the sunshine listening to Coldplay really loud. None of us knew the words but wanted to sing along so we made up words instead 😆
I dropped Davies and Scarlett in and walked to the beach with my MP3 player on. I do love listening to music but I really struggled not to sing along and often catch myself jigging to the beat a bit which I suspect gives me a very mad looking walk. Ah well :blush:
The beach was gorgeous, tide out, blue, blue sky and low sun. I do love it 🙂
Ady rang me after I’d been down there about 15 minutes to say he was just parking up to come and meet me so I walked back to him and we did a circuitous route around the town stopping at a cashpoint to get some money out to pay for Badgers for the term.
Back at home we were on one of my famous schedules to get everything done so I could watch The Apprentice. And we managed it 🙂
I peeled potatoes and got them simmering in cream and milk and garlic for potato gratin while the kids got their pjs on and cleaned their teeth (a later use of disclosing tablets showed they needed to repeat the teeth brushing mind you), then we sat down and read the first few chapters of which really appealed to Davies and I and our sense of humour and nonsense. Tarly was less engaged with it although several bits made her laugh.
They went to bed (well that’s not strictly true. Davies went to bed but came downstairs again several times aferwards to show us a story he’d created in a book called ‘The Friday O Leary Show’ based on the dectective from the Mr Gum books. Mostly told with illustrations with the odd word chucked in here and there.It’s good :). He also came to tell me about the different ways to spell to / too /two. I’m really enjoying the organic voyage of discovery approach he seems to be taking to reading, not just enjoying the words and being able to read them but all the interesting stuff about language and spelling and stuff he is finding out too :). Scarlett came and lurked in the bathroom and chatted to me while I had a bath). I had a bath and then finished cooking dinner (pork chops, beans and baby corn cooked in garlic, butter, black pepper and lemon juice with the potato gratin) and we were sitting down to The Apprentice pretty much on time :).
I’ve had a couple of fairly spectacular public coughing fits today making my eyes water and testing my pelvic floor not to mention giving me a sore throat and headache. Hoping tomorrow it will finally go away and leave me alone.
Glad he’s feeling better 🙂
Comment by Liza — 23 April 2009 @ 1:13 am
When I had pneumonia a couple of winters ago, I think that pelvic floor thing was the very worst bit. Helen assured me it would recover and it did, but it was an extra layer of awfulness on the general crapiness of it all. Hope you all recover soon.
Comment by Joyce — 23 April 2009 @ 10:49 pm