We were doing ‘by the seat of our pants childcare’ again today. Not sure why it’s particularly tough at the moment but it is. So Ady had gone into work to collect the company credit card as his task for the day was some serious plant shopping – and by serious I mean four figures. Apparently in order to prove they are cheaper than the competitor one of the large retailers has to go and physically buy products from the other, bring it to be inspected by their lawyers along with proof of purchase and compare with the same offering from themselves.
This meant I was woken before my alarm clock to say ‘get the kids ready, I’ll be back to collect them in 20 minutes!’. I say woken and that was something of a novelty last night as I seemed to spend most of the night coughing so felt like I only actually fell asleep once it got light 🙁 . The kids were already up so I got them breakfast and rallied them to get dressed while I did the same and had them presented, Jane and Michael Banks stylee at the front door awaiting their father’s inspection when he arrived home 😆
They all headed off plant shopping for the day and I gathered up books and dvds to return and went off to work myself. It seemed like a very long day today, not sure why. I did rather put my foot in my mouth by talking about someone without realising they were nearby 🙁 I am very hopeful she didn’t hear me although I suspect she may have done so I am feeling a bit bad about that 🙁 One of those tricky situations that you can never really put right either, unless they openly confront you and you get to unreservedly apologise. A lesson there to be learnt in either not being so bitchy or at least ensuring the coast is clear first I guess…
I beat the others home by a good 90 minutes but was feeling pretty rough with my cough giving my a headache by then. I also (whinge alert!) managed to hurt my finger yesterday at the allotment while pulling up parsnips. I’m not sure if it was just a load of dirt going under my nail or an actual splinter but it has gone all infected and is really throbbing under the nail although aside from a bit of redness and swelling there is nothing visible. So I made myself some tea and toast and sat on the sofa moping for a while 🙁 I tried to chop some kindling and managed to get the hand axe stuck in a log so was feeling all helpless and pathetic. I did get a fire lit in the end though, put the chickens away and got some dinner on for the kids when they arrived home.
The children ate, we had lots of cuddles (I do *really* miss then when I work all day, particuarly when the day is elongated like that with another 2 hours), they had baths and hairwashes while I got dinner sorted for Ady and I and then we watched the last of Lambing Live which we have really enjoyed. Will miss it. Davies and Scarlett did get me to email in a question, which ironically was the same as one they answered from someone else tonight about how ewes can have one white and one black lamb. A shame they didn’t get name checked, that would have been fab although I’m guessing many thousands of people probably emailed in to the show.
Davies and Scarlett went to bed, I had a bath and did dinner, we watched a couple of episodes of Lead Balloon that we’ve been working through having borrowed the whole of series one on dvd. Am hopeful for a better nights sleep and tomorrow I’m off to meet the LEA!