Up and out this morning to school for me. Ady took me in the car as he needed to get it down the croft hill before the hard ground defrosted having come up the hill yesterday morning to load up the three empty gas bottles we had. It was a low key three hours with Stuart (headmaster, over for an overnight visit) mostly chatting about anything and everything. He did try a couple of times to ask things like ‘what are your expectations for the job?’ 😆
In terms of 12 hours of paid work a week, the chance to charge stuff up, access to the photocopier, the educational resources (which I’ve been told to help myself to anything useful for Davies and Scarlett 🙂 ) it will be good. In terms of tying me down four mornings a week, spending an hour and a half each day walking there and back and it being a nightmare when the weather is rubbish it may prove more hassle than it is worth but I need to try it before concluding anything. I did struggle with reading all the propoganda and schooly stuff and listening to Stuart talking about the importance of literacy, how we need to trick parents into doing things ‘our way’ and the smiley face sticker coercion of doing what you are told (and that was just for me when I do the clerical work well ;))
Ady picked me up and we came home for lunch. We’ll gloss over the hour or so following my return as stuff had not gone as I’d have hoped during my absence and I was rather vocal about my displeasure of that 🙁 It meant three people ended up in tears…
Ady went to visit the doctor about his (now vanished) sore neck while the kids and I had a good chat. Tomorrow the three of them are getting the donated bike Davies was given working and both children are hoping to learn to ride it. I am sure we are the worst parents ever for having such old children still not riding bikes but life has always seemed to conspire against it happening naturally and we’ve always had so many other things happening to prevent time being found for it to happen otherwise. Living alongside a busy road on a steepish hill was the main one meaning the bike would have needed loading into a car and taking somewhere to be learnt to ride on and there always being more sensible things to be loading the car up and driving somewhere to do.
My fit of efficiency at the end of last week has yet to pay off as I have not heard from Ed that the box has arrived despite that supposed to have happened last Monday to send the compost loo to us, must chase that up again. The screwfix order with the water pipe kept crashing and the time it finally went through was the time I failed to tick the alternate delivery address away from Osborne Drive so it ended up there on Saturday. Ady rang yesterday and we think we have sorted it out but it is still showing as delivered rather than re-collected. Sigh. I’m at moving, it’s at least the third time I’ve managed to send something to an address I am not at any more!