Oh the weather outside is frightful

See Ali turn this into something insightful
making lyrics up from my day
and rhyming coupleting all I say
there has been no further vomit
my day has had no bad bits cast upon it
it’s been a joy rather than a slog
let me blog, let me blog, let me blog!

It’s been a slow old day really, the illegal status of my car kept me from using it and the weather was dry for just long enough to encourage me to do three washes and hopefully hang out the first two before pouring with rain for the rest of the day :(. Which meant a walk was sort of out of the question really.

Davies seemed to have made a full and overnight recovery and so we all had breakfast and watched various vet-based programmes on various sky channels. I wandered off at one point to hang more washing out and came back in to ask what was on TV. Davies said ‘oh it’s this show where there is these people who are trying to help really fat people lose weight so they feel better about themselves’ and they were both sat watching it ahhing at all the touching tear jerking moments 😆 So I turned that off and put some Christmas music on for a while. Davies got a big pile of various magazines down from his bedroom – mostly Doctor Who and Wallace and Gromit ones and they sat together and looked through them doing the various activities and talking about the pictures and stories. I drank lots of tea.

They came to see what I was doing at one point and caught me using paint to put Mortimer bears in prison which they throught was hilarious and egged me on to cut the arms of the hug people are sending each other on facebook too. They were utterly delighted when Ali responded to me very quickly :). We all sat and played zoo tycoon for a while and then I went to make some lunch, most of which Scarlett swiped as she decided my cheese on toast was nicer than the peanut butter sandwiches she’d asked for :roll:.

Davies then wanted to do some Xboxing so he laid across the sofa with his feet in my lap and did that, I read the local parenting magazine that comes out 4 times a year and annoys me every time I pick up a copy but never manage to just not pick one up in the first place. Scarlett was doing some drawing but then asked if she could draw on my jeans instead. She does this a lot and it usually washes out after a couple of washes and almost all my jeans are on the tatty side anyway so I let her – actually they both have a few pairs of pants and vests which I bought Tesco value packs of so they could use fabric pens to draw on them too, they love drawing on clothes and now they’re old enough to know that it’s ok to draw on some but not on all I really like some of the designs they’ve done. It was only when the telltale pear drops smell drifted to my nose I realised she was using a permanent marker pen for her drawing, so I now have a very well written’ SCARLETT’ across the left knee of my jeans and beautifully coloured in pictures of the four of us down one thigh 😆 – customised clothing is cool right? 😉

Ady had been hoping to get home for about 3pm ish to finish some work from home so I could take his car and get the food shopping we were so desperate for but his day didn’t pan out quite like that and in the end he pulled up with moments to spare before we left for swimming in a car relay tag team style. I’d not suggested to Davies that he not go to swimming as he seemed fine and had eaten plenty but about halfway through the lesson he quite clearly started to flag and at one point started coughing a lot which had me about to leap to my feet and shout ‘everyone clear the pool, avoiding the lumps in the water!’ but he seemed to have just drunk too much water! He carried on admirably but just about managed to climb out of the pool at the end and then sort of slumped, bless him. I helped him get changed and we drove home with me fairly convinced he might be ill again but he was cheered up by getting his 5m badge tonight and dashed in to show Ady and Scarlett it. We continued with the tag team idea with me dropping Davies off with Ady and heading off again to Sainsburys. Apparently he didn’t manage any dinner and although he was still awake when I came home just before 8pm he was asleep well before 9pm which is pretty early for him.

Sainsburys was fairly quiet. I’d started to feel a bit crap too but it’s since passed but I really struggled to summon enthusiasm for shopping. I popped into Boots next door to get a few Christmas present and birthday present for Scarlett bits (and that sparkly eye liner that girl had on Friday night too Ros – I got it in green and silver and it was only £1 something a tube :)) and then in Sainsburys I managed to get Christmas presents for 3 out of the 4 children other than my own I want to buy for and a load of stocking presents for D and S from their £1 3 for 2 offers on tat :). I got home and we unloaded the shopping and put it all away. We had posh chicken nuggets and posh chips for dinner while watching Keeping Mum which was quite good.

Tomorrow is MOT day – please keep your fingers crossed it doesn’t need anything too expensive done to it for me.