I have done very little today actually :). Ady has been off so I took that as a perfect excuse to stay up til 2am and then not get up again til nearly 10am which was nice :).
The weather has been very April-y with the added nusiance of lots of wind and cold temperatures to aid the rainclouds along so any possible plans involving being outside were immediately shelved. We did need to go and move money between bank accounts to pay the mortgage and to get the meat for the month from the butcher so we achieved that.
We also popped into Worthing museum for a look round as Ady had not been there before. It’s not that long ago that the children and I went there but several exhibitions had changed and the art was new. They had added a few ‘please do touch’ areas upstairs including a tardis with dressing up clothes through the ages and a dalek outfit :). There was some interesting jewellery on display too of beads made from human hair and photos of dead flies arranged in the shape of necklaces. Slightly odd but quite beautiful too. We all lay down to see how we compared to the height of a female skeleton found buried from 200 years ago and talked lots about the farmers kitchen compared to ours now. I was particularly charmed from an entry in the visitors book. Amid the normal nonsense written by teenagers thinking they are clever and earnest praise from tourist was a childlike handwritten saying ‘my nanna is from the olden days’ 😆 😆
Scarlett has been desperate to go back to the animal resuce place where there were puppies and kittens last time we visited so in the absense of any better suggestions we drove over there. Unfortunately there was loads of roadworks making for traffic jams and a long drive and then no puppies and kittens anyway. Finally she ran across a very muddy area and as the words ‘don’t run!’ left my mouth so she managed a full body slam wipeout into the mud (and no doubt duck and chicken poo aswell :().She was unhurt but a stupid bloody woman standing nearby with two children of her own found the whole scene hilarious and laughed long and loud which really upset Scarlett. I was incredibly tempted to go and push the woman over herself mud wrestling stylee but refrained and helped Tarly clean up and get out of her clothes in the car instead. That cut short any further ideas so we drove all the way home again, calling at the butcher where just Davies and I went in before coming home.
The children had tea and then we went back out again to Badgers. They did paper weaving there today which they both really enjoyed while Ady and I had a whole hour during which we walked along the beach and through the town but it was so bloody cold and windy we gave up and came and sat back in the car and chatted instead. Nice to walk along hand in hand without any children interupting every other sentence though. I recall thinking of the day when we might not have a child with us one day in the future and it’s lovely to finally be here :).
Home for stories for the children, bath, dinner and The Apprentice for us. A cracking show tonight and nice to see Debbie Lewin from Clintons hasn’t changed in the last 10 years or so since I worked for them :). Tomorrow I’m off to work all day and Ady’s home with the children. They also have A and E coming over to play so they’re looking forward to a good day with Daddy :).