Work for me today all day. Due to my cough I didn’t do baby rhymetime, I think the risk of them all having to carry on singing without me while I PMSC in the corner was too great. I did the banking first thing, followed by spending some time coming up with a proposal of a new system for reading group accounts and then some time on the enquiry desk. Aswell as the usual book orders I also helped a man identify some war medals he’d forgotten the specific reason for being awarded and found contact details for another elderly man who wanted to speak to his energy supplier on the phone or write to them rather than email them or go via their website.
It was pretty quiet today and S and I had a bit of a moan about how we get bored on days like today. I love the job when it is busy and challenging and bustling, I get resentful of being away from home and the kids on days when I am standing around with very little to do.
Back at home Ady was here in the morning and the big excitement of the morning was spotting a buzzard flying low over the house and garden,presumably after our chickens. It was chased off by a gang of seagulls (Bird Wars now showing at The Goddards) so Ady and the children were digging out bird and nature books to find out more information about buzzards. The RSPB magazines for the kids had also arrived so they were looking through them at various competitions and things too.
Mum was here for a couple of hours, not sure what they all got up to although Davies had drawn and coloured in a fantastic picture for my Mum of her at work window dressing a charity shop window which she was off to do in the afternoon. He’s starting to colour in his pictures more with very impresssive results. Scarlett also had a load of drawing stuff out and had been doing various pictures. Davies had also made an alien spaceship from MvA with a cardboard box, will get a picture of it tomorrow.
I got home and having been shown all their creations assisted in the tidying up, made Tarly’s tea and unpacked Scarlett’s ds case she’d left at Liza’s (thanks Liza 🙂 x) and a pair of gorgeous green shoes I won off ebay. Davies took the shoe box straight away and wrote on it ’10p for a lucky dip’ all by himself and then proceeded to take money off Scarlett for various things which quite possibly already belonged to her anyway. He did assure her ‘there’s no tat in here’ which made me laugh 😆
Davies and I walked Tarly round to Rainbows where she had a fab time. Not really sure what she did but she seems to love it there and will hopefully really enjoy these last two terms there before deciding whether to start Brownies next year.
Back at home I made Davies’ tea and then Ady arrived home. I walked round to collect Tarly and Davies came running up the road to meet us. They stayed in the garden with Ady til gone 8pm (he was gardening) and gathered up various things from around the garden to create a cavemen scene complete with shelter of sticks and animal skins (plastic sheeting), a fire and a spit roast over it made of lavendar leaves wrapped in bay leaves and skewered with sticks
They are so going to LOVE camping this year 🙂
They finally came in and we read the pre-meeting leaflet for tomorrows Magic Lantern where they are watching Singin in the Rain. The leaflet gives a very brief outline of the story and talks loads about genre so we tried to think of as many musicals as we could and actually came up with loads as so many of the family films we have seen have been musicals.
Davies came and chatted to me while I was in the bath and we had a very late dinner but fortunately noone needs to be up in the morning :). We have an amazingly free weekend aside from Magic Lantern tomorrow afternoon which we may well end up filling or we may just keep nice and free and relaxed.