I worked today. It’s a funny feeling being so close to leaving somewhere, particularly when I have such an unusual reason for leaving. Before I have left jobs to have babies, to change career, due to promotion or in one memorable instance because they asked me to go and called me a taxi to speed me on my way.
The day passed quite merrily with me in a very distantly supportive role at Baby Rhyme Time as the new Rhyme Time Lady had her first solo attempt. My lovely colleague Sarah had baked a cake to honour our last shift working together and then she cried on me twice during the course of the day about me leaving. 🙁
Ady rang me twice saying ‘do you want the good news or the bad news?’ I always go for bad first and the first time it was to say he’d been to Lance (the mechanic) to drop off a fuel can of petrol – having driven past at least 3 petrol stations on the way from Richard to Lance yesterday he told me on the way home that he’d been really worried about how low the petrol was. I asked why he’d not stopped for petrol and he replied that he didn’t really know! So he’d then fretted about it overnight and taken a can along. When he arrived he discovered the van was already at the MOT test centre. So it had started this morning and got there without fuel. The bad news was it cost nearly £8 to fill the fuel can when you’d always used to struggle getting a fivers worth in.
The second call was at 5pm to say the bad news was he couldn’t go and collect it as I wasn’t home to run him there but the good news was Willow was MOTd and ready to collect. 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
The rest of the day the others had spent bimbling about from what I can tell. They left the house after I did this morning, came home for lunch and beat me back home again in the evening by a good hour or more. They had watched various animal documentaries on TV and had a nice day together.
I got home and we watched One Man & His Campervan then the kids finished off watching Peter Pan on dvd that they’d been halfway through. We did bad, good, learnt:
Davies
Bad: my PSP keeps crashing (on one particular game.)
Good: Had a good day out with Daddy
Learnt: Elephants don’t forget. They’d watched a programme about an elephant that left a sanctury at a couple of years old and came back some 25 years later and seemed to recognise the people and place.
Scarlett:
Bad: Can’t find my newsletter (from Cambridge Zoological Society – she wanted to show it to me as it had her learnt today on it.)
Good: That I can still remember it without the aid of the newsletter
Learnt: a razorshell can burrow quicker than we can dig and people all over the world eat them, they are very sharp
Ady:
Bad: Pointless at work now I’m about to leave
Good:Nic’s car still starting even in the heaviest rain in weeks
Learnt: About the mating habits of sparrows – the females are about to eject the sperm of a male after mating apparently.
Nic:
Bad: Sarah at work cried today as she is sad I am leaving 🙁
Good: Willow is MOT’d!!! And at a bargain price
Learnt: about man with camera in his head – Scarlett and Michelle have both told me about it so it has to make it onto my list! Michelle mentioned it on ff and about 10 minutes later Tarly told me about it having heard it earlier today on the radio.
Bath, fizzy wine, curry, Fast & Loose on TV and now wuss o’clock. There’s a lot to do before this time next week.
I saw razorshell clams in the fishmongers yesterday.
Very good news about Willow 🙂 🙂 🙂
Comment by Alison — 12 February 2011 @ 10:22 am
re davies psp, is it LBP? it won’t work on Andrews and google tells me lots of other people have had the same problem.
Comment by Liza — 12 February 2011 @ 7:10 pm