Should have nicked some of the egg boxes from yesterdays junk modelling session – and then soundproofed the cupboard under the stairs with them and moved in!
Scarlett and Ady have coughs. I can hear them now, coughing in stereo in their sleep, one from upstairs and one from downstairs. Meanwhile I sit here planning on running away to start a new life somewhere where no one coughs. Ever. I think I may have mentioned my zero tolerance level for coughs once or twice before? I actually have a headache from narrowing my eyes at them both so frequently today 🙂
Davies has also got a hatred of coughs, no idea whether it is nature or nurture but he gets a pissed off and tutty about it as I do. For two solid days pretty much the only thing he has said to Scarlett is ‘HAND!!!!’ whenever she coughs. Which I guess saves me doing it.
It’s also rained today. All day long. Not hard enough to drown out the sound of the coughing (or even to drown the people doing the coughing) but certainly enough to bring out the Eeyore in someone.
I had a verging on a tantrum moment about washing / the state of the house / the people coughing / the rain which spurred me on to do some washing and get some hung around on radiators to dry and put some clean washing away. Then I went and sat in Davies’ room and did a puzzle book on The Incredibles which has 6 x 50 piece puzzles in it which had fallen out all over the bookcase. Found that quiet and soothing.
Ady came home – he’d gone out and come back again before college and was able to drive me to town, park outside the bank and then drive and park outside the other bank so I could swap money about into the mortgage account. I had a chat with the man in the Halifax about how they get chosen for those ads – he was telling me it’s sort of a like a Pop Idol type contest which amused me. Wonder if people now try and get jobs working for them just so they can enter the competition for doing the ads? Ady went off to college and I decided my options were to go and hide for the afternoon, spend it shouting at the children or do something with them. So we made a huge vat of popcorn and some sticky sauce for it and I told them to choose a film each. Davies chose Trapdoor (not a film – the plasticine animated ‘cartoon’ show from the 80s / 90s which we have several videos of) so we watched that and chatted lots about the animation techniques. Then I showed him the Honda ad I linked to yesterday and made him (and it was by force :lol:) watch the making of video to that too. Then I made him watch Flying Pickets which actually he quite liked and then we put on some of the throat singing. He was less impressed with that, even having been told that SB likes it so I found some beatbox stuff on youtube for him to watch. He was impressed by that and made us all do some beat stuff to see what it sounded like with 3 of us. Scarlett was less cooperative but Davies and I enjoyed it :).
We’d all eaten vast amounts of popcorn and gotten bored of watching tv too so Davies asked for Zoombinis and Scarlett and I did a puzzle together. It was a 100 piece one with lots of cross section type nature stuff including underground and underwater wildlife. It’s a spring scene with birds on nests or with young and the various animals all with their babies. She made most of the puzzle and then we looked at the various wildlife on it and talked about it. Then we went and watched Davies playing Zoombinis for a bit and then I had a go while Tarly wandered off and made a potion with some leftover drinks in the kitchen 🙄 She didn’t make any mess but had clearly tasted it as her breath stank of coffee! 😯
I made them some tea and was in the kitchen when Ady got home. Scarlett then went into meltdown mode and we had a chaotic hour or so of lots of refusal to do anything ‘on her own because she is scared on her own’ including cleaning her teeth, getting her pyjamas and so on. 🙄 Ady was feeling rough, I was feeling rough and so neither of us were remotely in the mood for it. It all got patched up in the end though and I had a very long, very hot bath followed by some ginger wine (medicinal purposes obviously). I’m working in the morning and actually no matter how rough I feel I am looking forward to spending four hours doing something else and then coming home and being lovely in the afternoon. Except of course for the fact that the library is just bound to be stuffed full of people coughing! 😆