and we never got any snow to play in here 🙁 Yesterday at Drusillas there was barely enough to scrape together a snowball (although I did and chucked it at Ady just as he bent down to set up the camera for a self timer shot and in a never to be repeated fluke of a shot it went straight down the back of his neck! 🙂 Oh how we all laughed! ;-)) and today it has simply not stopped raining all day.
I’d had one of those night’s sleep where you are haunted by all sorts of wild dreams and wake up more exhausted than you went to sleep, I’d spent vast amounts of the night awake and finally fell asleep to a dream so vivid that I woke myself by shaking my shoulders with pretend sobs (I was crying in the dream) and then found I really had been crying and my face was wet with tears. All very odd! Took a while to shake off that really and we had planned to get out and about early to take the kid shoe shopping but decided against it looking at the weather.
Davies and I made up a kit of a replica eye and spent some time looking at stuff with it and reading the accompanying booklet with lots of eye related information. Then we did a couple of the suggested experiments and I also showed him how pupils shrink and grow in light and dark and we talked about how it is even more obvious in our cats’ eyes.
Then we headed over to Chris and Julie’s for a couple of hours. Managed a catch up and round up of Christmas with them and then we decided to brave the rain and nipped to Bognor to get new boots in Clarks sale for Davies and new wellies for both of them. There was nothing remotely suitable for Tarly although she does need new shoes – only 3 pairs in the shop in her size, one was a hideous pair of boots, one was a pink shoe with a vile brown patch and sequins stitched on, one was a very pretty pink and purple style with ribbons – totally impractical for January and they did have some black patent ones with little cut out holes which I rejected on principle as I so don’t want them to have black shoes when they don’t have to 🙂 Black shoes are for school! I’m still coming to terms with her growing out of her gorgeous Boden knee high boots really :-). We’ll sort her out next week sometime.
Just as we were leaving a woman stopped me in the street. I would never have recognised her but she worked for me part time when I was the manager of the Clinton Cards in Bognor. She was delighted to see me with a child holding each hand as I had sworn I would never NEVER have children back then ;-). It was really pouring with rain so it was a brief chat but nice to see her. I was stunned to work out it had been about 8 years ago I was doing that job, which possibly explains why she looked so different – 8 years is a long time bringing up teenagers!
Came home via McDonalds. I do very occassional online surveys for a company which pay in luncheon vouchers so I always use them for Happy Meals and they’d come through about a month ago but not been used, so the kids were very happy with new wellies and Happy Meals. Davies was less happy that his present was a Polly Pocket the same as Tarly’s but he got over it!
Bizarrely we now have Davies asleep but Tarly is still downstairs being noisy – I have a plan for a hot bubble bath, a pampering with my facial sauna and face pack, a large glass of wine and something spicey with chicken Ady is planning to cook. Can’t be bad 🙂
off you go to the butchers and get a pig’s eye to dissect, next, then – that was very exciting when we did it a while back!
We do those luncheon voucher surveys too, the source of our happy meals as well, although I have to save up a few books worth before we can all go 😉
Comment by Sarah — 30 December 2005 @ 9:09 pm
Bizarely (how DO you spell that?), I once got a buggy and a years supply of breast pads for doing a road test. I hate those odd dreams. I also freak myself out that it’s some sort of pre-cognition. Which is daft, as I don’t convince myself it is when it’s NICE things I dream about. It went from minus 10 to plus 7 in the space of an hour here last night (I was awake, coughing). Bob was at work, so I did fret for a while about the pipes, but they all survived. Even though I was then cooked with the heating being on all night.
Comment by Joyce — 30 December 2005 @ 9:31 pm
well I would have possibly been worried if the reason for my crying in the dream was not that a dog had appeared and jumped up at me and all the people I was with, despite knowing how scared of dogs I am had not done anything so I was crying because I was scared and sad that no one had helped me. And today and Chris and Julie’s their dog WOULD NOT leave me alone so it sort of did come true but I was brave enough with people around me to tell the dog to go away and stop sniffing my crotch! Which actually made me feel all empowered 😉
Comment by Nic — 30 December 2005 @ 10:55 pm