I worked this morning while Dad was here with Davies and Scarlett. My parents are off to China for a month next Tuesday and we’ll miss Dad lots, childcare and company both, although I am pleased they are doing this trip which has been quite a while in the planning and is something Dad particularly is really looking forward to. He talks about being a small boy and looking at maps and atlases and thinking how exciting it would be to voyage to these different lands. Back then it would have been weeks on boats to reach them, now he can fly there in under a day and he is still in utter awe at that being possible and within his reach :).
Work was fine although it felt like it went s l o w l y as I am feeling rough today having got the cold that lay the kids low at the weekend which is making me feel woolly of head, rough of throat and snotty of nose. I am also a bit low level sad thinking of two very dear friends and their respective sadnesses and troubles at the moment 🙁 and have not been sleeping well 🙁 .
I’d had a plan to take the kids to the circus this afternoon – there is a very small circus that sets up at Brooklands (local park with a lake, miniature railway and other expensive attractions on the seafront) every Easter holidays and we missed it last year. It’s pretty reasonable at £3.50 each and they sell tickets on the door so my plan was to wander down there for circus and maybe ice creams.
It turned out the the weather was grey and cold and none of us felt much up to walking there, let alone the prospect of back again potentially in the rain which gave us longer to decide whether to go or not. In the end neither Davies or Scarlett was sufficiently enthusiastic or keen to make me want to leave the sofa either so we stayed home.
We watched The Gruffalo dvd and the making of extras and then Puff the Magic Dragon which I’d picked up at work and was really good – three stories about children, one who didn’t speak, one who told lies and one who didn’t recognise the music in himself. Really nice classic animation and storytelling, took me right back to childhood ;).
I spent some time online and picked up the great news that the Home Ed sections of the DCSF bill haven’t made it through – this time. Interesting reactions from different sections of the Home Ed community ;).
I chopped some firewood and lit the fire then made the kids tea, which pretty much took it out of me for the rest of the evening. I slumped back on the sofa and managed to read the last four or five chapters of Humphrey to the kids, had a bath and raised my glass at 930pm with folk all around the country. Ady cooked a lovely curry (most of which I couldn’t taste 🙁 ) and we’ve watched some taped Masterchef Australia.
I’m hoping for a decent nights sleep and feeling better tomorrow.