It was a lovely day today, can’t quite equate nearly T shirt weather with snow warnings for 48 hours time somehow. We drove along the coast and if time had been in greater supply would have spent some time there today it was that lovely.
I worked all day yesterday. It was very quiet and pretty boring. Ady was at home with D&S so I came home for lunch which I don’t usually do. They had a nice day though, although I’m not actually sure what they did. So coupled with the fact I didn’t actually have a lot to say and the fact that I spent the entire evening weeping my way through the films on Comic Relief I didn’t get here to blog last night. Davies sat up and watched the first hour or so of Comic Relief. We’ve talked a bit before about those less fortunate than us and various issues as tackled last night such as domestic abuse, starvation and famine, third world issues such as disease from sanitation and lack of medicine, child carers and all of the other things that had me sitting with my hand over my mouth and tears streaming down my cheeks for about four hours last night. Who knows how much of it sank in, who knows whether it is right or wrong for a six year old to be excused knowing about how other six year olds around the world suffer in favour of having their own priviledged childhood. I think the overwhelming thing that he and I both got from it is just how bloody lucky we are. And maybe that’s the most important message of all – count your blessings, because through some sort of lottery of birth we live here, in this country, with a family who love us and don’t want to hurt us, we have more than enough of pretty much anything we could ever want and probably the most respect we can show those who don’t have it is to enjoy what we do have I guess. We can’t change the world, we can change how we view it though…
So, today. We did massive amounts of washing (Ady started with several loads and I took over when I got up) and got it all dry again too – hurrah :), Ady emptied out his car ready to be loaded up on Monday morning, we had a fairly lazy morning and then set off to Brighton to call into Asda to get various Mothers Day related bits. Ady and Davies went off to do secret things together, while Tarly stayed with me and we got a few bits for my Mum and some batteries for our maglite torch for candling purposes.
Then we went over to collect the Susumama order and drove for a while along the coast enjoying the lovely weather.
I did some baking (flapjacks, fairy cakes and chocolate rice crispie cakes) for NicCamps and once it was dark we candled the eggs as it is day 6 of hatchwatch. Despite not really knowing what we were looking for we were all really interested in what we could see. It looks to us like we have two definite possibles, perhaps a couple of non starters and a whole load we couldn’t tell about. We’re going to have another go tomorrow and hope that none of the non starters explode while we’re away. We’ll be back with a full week to go before they should start hatching so we should be able to easily indentify which are likely to hatch by the time we get back next Friday.
Looking forward to a nice day tomorrow over at my parent’s. Frazer will be there, as will my Granny so hopefully the children will be on good form and we’ll have a nice family day.
Aprilia knows a bit about what Comic Relief is all about. On the website there is loads of stuff for schools and all the stuff for her age is about Fair Trade and helping that way which is easier to deal with than some of the more distressing issues. Saying that though, I don’t think it’s particularly right to shield children totally from the way the rest of the world is, you just need to allow them to see as much as they are able to understand and thank whatever Gods, stars or Fates you beieve in that “poor” in the UK is a world away from poor.