I can’t read in rhyme sir…

when I’ve been drinking wine sir,
my tongue can’t do the twist
when it’s on the way to getting pissed 🙂

Been drinking wine whilst watching Dr Who (Christopher Eccleston – S definitely 🙂 ) and was then called upon to read Fox in Socks to Davies – erm quite tricky that actually! 😀

An OK day today – got up very late (nearly 10am!) which is a nice luxury but tends to throw me off for the rest of the day and cocks me up for getting to sleep much before about 1am tonight (well tomorrow morning) and then it’s my turn to get up with the kids in the morning at 6ish. Ho hum.

Pottered about doing not a lot this morning, made some cakes and some choux buns at lunchtime (which turned out pretty well actually!) and then Chris and Julie and the twins came over for a bit. Ady gave me some grief about being a crap hostess – and he is right really but if I don’t let my own kids jump on my sofas and they are not going to tell theirs not to then I am going to tell them myself! None of the four kids were really up to the company actually – Scarlett was totally anti anyone looking at, talking to or breathing near her let alone trying to play with her toys or sit on *her* Daddy’s lap (which both the twins like to do) and Davies, bless him, has had a pretty crap week so he wasn’t really up to being told to share his stuff either – at one point he simply told Maisie to go away and leave him alone as he didn’t want to play with her. He said it quite mildly and not nastily but she ran off hysterical and D got black glares as a result – which probably wasn’t that fair really. Both the twins have had some sort of bug this week which they didn’t really seem to be over so the combination of four fairly fractious and delicate children with four sleep deprived adults who have been caring for them all week didn’t really make for a relaxed and carefree meet up! Won’t see them during next week due to Legoland trip so perhaps the space of a full week ’til next weekends get together will do everyone good.

Ady and Davies then set off for the cinema to see Robots – but despite it showing shows at 4.30 and 7.30pm on their website when they arrived it was not on. Ady rang me and I phoned their box office to double check and got a really stupid person telling me it was not on and ‘someone’ had forgotten to change the website and ‘something else is on at 4.30 instead – erm, well it’s not Robots’ I hung up and started drafting my complaint letter! Ady took a very disappointed Davies to Woolies to pick a toy and then to McDonalds instead.

Meanwhile I stayed home with Tarly imagining we would snuggle up on the sofa and watch something sedate on TV – wrong! First we played a game involving her jumping off the windowsill and me catching her – I figure it will be good for swimming pool games! Then we played a sort of Whats the time Mr Wolf type thing peeking at behind the cupboard in the playroom, her making a roaring sound and us running back into the lounge and hiding – all totally her instigation and ideas. A bit boring but it was nice to give her the attention and see her back on form a bit.

Tomorrow is still a bit undecided. I don’t really want to fall out with my parents so I imagine we will end up going over there in the afternoon and I will endeavour to control my emotions and act normal. As it goes S is fine, I got through the week and although the help would have been nice I was probably being foolish to imagine it would have been forthcoming – it never has been before. I guess they give the best they know how to give and that is all anyone can expect of anyone else eh.