We started the day with some ill fated pancakes for breakfast. So ill fated that after burning one, making another into sweet scrambled eggs and just about managing one edible one each for Davies and Scarlett I gave up on producing anything for myself. I know a bad workman blames his tools and all that but our only decent spatula had fallen apart so I had nothing to flip them with which wasn’t helping.
The children just had time to eat them before Em, Eve and Rei arrived. Having been staying with Lucy for a couple of nights they came to see us before heading back home again. Davies and Rei seemed delighted as always to see each other with Eve spending some time showing Scarlett her DS. There was a riotous game of hide and seek and various other top volume playing with a back drop of Scarlett coming in in tears having suffered various injuries. They seemed to rub along fairly ok together overall. We had lunch which they watched some W&G short films to accompany and then decided to dance to the theme music. This hampered Em and I’s various very interesting chats so I offered to put some music on in the playroom for them to dance to. I brought in Hooked On Classics from the car (which Em described as ‘bad hold music’ :lol:) and 3/4 of them danced to that before starting a board game marathon.
Eve started to show Davies how to play chess which morphed into an elaborate game involving all four children and all the chess and drafts pieces. Scarlett found Davies’ camera (yay!!! 🙂 ). Lucy and Rebecca arrived and the board games continued. I nipped out to get a new spatula all the while marvelling at being able to leave the children and pop out, I still recall with remarkable clarity the trials of trying to go anywhere and leave Davies with someone and while I’ve gotten used to going to work and leaving them the idea of jumping in the car to go and get a spatula without the children feels like some sort of prison break!
Em tried to make us eat beetroot thinly disguised as chocolate cake but D&S imediately noticed the suspicious red bits and rejected it. Once I’d ascertained it wasn’t lentils in there I did eat mine though. 🙂
Lucy left, shortly followed by Em and co leaving us just enough time for a more successful batch of pancakes for the children’s tea. Dad arrived, shortly followed by Ady meaning we didn’t actually need Dad but he sat and had a coffee and seemed on good form, happily confirming he’ll be here on Thursday afternoon so some of my chat with Mum must have fed back about not letting his views on HE colour his relationship with the children or his willingness to spend time with them when I’m at work.
I got changed and went to work. It’s really nice working a two hour shift. The shortest shift I’ve ever previously worked anywhere was 3 hours on the 5-8pm shift at B&Q years and years ago. So the time went super fast. Book group was tonight so I stood watching all the book group members come in. It was the busiest group ever with loads of us there discussing Malorie Blackman’s Noughts and Crosses so lots of lively debate. I got ribbed for wearing my Library Badge and told them all to ‘Sshhhh!’ to prove my ability. It was really nice. 🙂
Came home and had a bath, then Ady made jacket potatoes for dinner followed by pancakes. And now, having been typing this while having a IM chat with Lucy I am about to publish this, say goodnight to Luce and head on up to bed.
What did you think of that book? i have to say, i thought it was rubbish with way to many obvious ‘devices’ and only got as far as it did because it was supposed to be tackling racism and prejudice for teenagers. I hardly ever don’t read a whole series, but i had no inclination to get the other ones of hers at all.
Comment by Merry — 21 February 2007 @ 8:04 am
Oh it’s the verve isn’t it. Been bugging me all day.
Comment by Chris — 21 February 2007 @ 8:18 pm
Tis indeed C – and funnily enough I *think* it’s the same track I stumbled over on a spreadsheet lyrics quiz you once linked to.
Comment by Nic — 21 February 2007 @ 8:55 pm
I liked it Merry. I thought it was quite a page turner, an interesting take on the Romeo and Juliet type tale, tackled lots of issues on a good and non-gratuitous level for it’s target audience and was fairly thought provoking.
The book was suggested by the 11 year old daughter of one of the reading group attendees – she comes along with him and curls up in a corner of the library along with a couple of other 10-12 year old offspring who come along with their parents. The group unanimously enjoyed it and felt it was a well written and ‘suitable’ book. The group is me, two retired grandmothers, two single parents with 12 ish year old daughters, a teacher with grown up boys, a man with a 9 yo daughter, so a good mix with some interesting takes on racism among our number.
The general consensus was summed up by the single Dad who’s daughter had recommended the book. He said he was glad that books like that were being written, he was delighted that it was the reading matter of choice for his daughter and felt very happy that it was the sort of material which would shape her views and opinions.
I would read the next one and in the third apparentely Sephy and Jude (Callum’s brother) feature heavily which I could see would be interesting.
Comment by Nic — 21 February 2007 @ 9:04 pm