Ady was off and out way before I woke up properly this morning – he’d arranged to go to his mate Tom’s house to collect logs. On the way he’d had a phone call from Tom to say he was running late so Ady had detoured to meet his brother for half an hour or so. He finally got home around 11am with a car full of logs which then took a further half an hour or so to unload and stack up. I was busy feeling sorry for myself with my cold – into phase three now, blocked nose with added irritability and Davies and Scarlett had been watching series one of Primeval.
I made cinnamon french toast for lunch and then the children went to play outside for a while – playing Primeval, Tarly is Abi and Davies is Cutter, it seems to mostly involve a running commentary on where Rex is and what he’s up to 😆 – they are mounting a charm offensive on me to buy them the action figures but I’m trying to remain strong! (OMG no one tell them there is an anomaly playset, we’d be doomed!), while Ady and I looked at houses on the internet.
My big clock which Ady bought me for my 21st birthday present (we toyed with the idea of getting engaged but decided if we ever split up it would mean my memories of my 21st would always be to do with ‘that bloke I was once engaged to’ so I chose the clock instead) and which lives on our lounge wall has been slowly dying for the last month or so. Batteries normally last about 8 months or so in it and then it runs slow until we change it over but it has been losing more and more time despite new batteries and twiddling and eventually stopped altogether. Ady has been doing lots of taking the clock mechanisms off the backs of various other clocks in the house and trying to sort it out but none of them had long enough spindles to fit the big clock. After some online searching we decided to go to the nearest Hobbycraft and see if they had one. It’s only my second ever experience of a Hobbycraft – they are the sort of shops I really should not be allowed in, definitely not unaccompanied and never when I might have any spare money! I managed to restrain myself to only buying the clock mechanism and a craft knife for 59p as we don’t have any decent scissors let alone craft knives and I have a couple of things I want to make that will need such a tool. Ady has replaced the mechanism but either the hands are too big and heavy for the replacement (we kept the original hands) or it is getting stuck somewhere as in two hours it has lost five minutes again already :(. Grrr.
So that little excursion was the sum total of anything productive today really. Scarlett is either coming down with what I’ve got or is just really rubbish at reading hints because she’s been all over me today, which on a day when I am feeling crap / intolerant / impatient / shouty is not the best place to position herself really. Davies is way better at reading my moods and knowing when it would be a good plan to keep out of my way – and just what level of interaction is enough to make me happy. Scarlett does total overkill draping herself all over me and constantly demanding my attention, then stropping and getting upset when I am short with her which makes me feel guilty and be nice to her which gives her licence to be all over me again – vicious circle :(.
The only constructive thing we did do was use air drying clay to make the head and body and four limbs for our puppets complete with holes to fasten them together and to thread the strings through eventually. They are fairly small so should hopefully dry pretty quick so we can get on with painting them soon – Davies, Scarlett and I made one each with the idea of making them in our own form and possibly using some of our own hair for their hair and old clothes for making their clothes for added authenticity (or voodoo purposes ;)). I did some wax crayon and watercolour painting pictures too, hoping it would lure them over to join in but although they told me they looked pretty they were far too busy being Cutter and Abi to do any of their own.
Ady made a lovely roast chicken dinner which we all had watching In Cold Blood repeat followed by some Simpsons before bed for Davies and Scarlett. Ady and I did some more looking at houses online and talking about future plans a bit more. And now, in the interests of actually going to bed before I fall asleep on the sofa tonight – and because looking at the clock running slow is annoying me and with a clock that big it’s hard to ignore it, I’m off to bed before a busy day tomorrow.
I like the way your “Lost Sunday” comes with a courtesy-of-Flickr photo of Sawyer 😉
Comment by Alison — 17 February 2008 @ 11:49 pm
I can’t believe you chose a clock over getting engaged!
Comment by Sarah — 18 February 2008 @ 10:46 am
😆 Really? Why not?
Infact we never did actually get engaged, unless you count the 3 week period between booking our wedding with the chapel over the internet and actually saying ‘I do’ 😆
Comment by Nic — 18 February 2008 @ 5:08 pm
I’d definitely choose the clock 😆
Comment by Liza — 18 February 2008 @ 8:24 pm