Work for me this morning so Ady took Davies and Scarlett over to Julie’s for the morning and then collected them and brought them home again arriving about 5 minutes after I got home. I had a nice morning at work, it was really busy so it went quick. Several more people asking whether our library will be closing… I am both pleased news of library closures is getting through and frustrated that people take no action other than telling a library assistant like me how important it is to them to have the library service. Write letters, march, protest, shout! I do despair of the majority just putting up with what they are told to do 🙁
Davies and Scarlett had a lovely couple of hours with their cousins – they are going to miss each other lots while we’re away 🙁 All of our scattered friends will probably see more or less as much as usual of us but J,M & L and some of our more local friends will definitely be missed. They went for a walk across the fields to visit Honey the pony and feed her sugar lumps. Both Davies and Scarlett were upset to see poor little Lorna with one arm in plaster from shoulder to hand as she broke her arm yesterday after colliding with another child. All three of the cousins have now been in plaster which prompted a conversation about how neither Davies or Scarlett have been. I am unfeasibly paranoid at the moment about one of the four of us doing an injury to ourselves which delays or prevents our departure. I did remind D&S that I’ve never been in plaster (despite cracked ankle last year and broken toe a couple of years ago) and neither has my brother, although several of their friends have.
Back home Ady shot off and the kids and I had lunch. We had planned to go to the beach this afternoon but it was very grey and cold and they had gotten up early to play a new (to him) X box game Davies got yesterday and were keen to continue it so instead we all settled into various things indoors. Scarlett did some plasticining; she is making a family of foxes, I did various things but mostly played PvZ and Davies X boxed.
We needed to pop to the post office as Eve had left her shoes here, plus I had to send some insurance documents off so we nipped to the library to photocopy stuff and then the post office to post stuff and home via the book shop. I put chickens away and made / took some phone calls to the mechanic about the van and the letting agent about the house. This resulted in various things being agreed with the agent and we have a new provisional date of 23rd to move out. This is fab for us, it means we can finish working while still in the house and then have our Bye Then party, pack up, clean up and move out, with about 10 days before we need to be at our first host, giving us time to have a readjusting period before starting our next life.
There is still paperwork to be completed but in order for timings to work out we have decided Ady will hand his notice in tomorrow so have drafted the letter tonight for him to take in. I suspect he won’t sleep much tonight 😉
Ady and Davies watched the end of Pirates of the Caribbean 2 while Tarly and I played the Zen garden bit of PvZ and then I read a Ladybird Scott of the Antarctic book to them.
Scarlett:
Bad: Feel sorry for Lorna with her broken arm
Good: had a nice morning with Jack & Maisie
Learnt: Sled dogs are quite wild and more like wolves than domestic dogs (from Scott of the Antarctic Ladybird book)
Davies:
Bad: Missing the lacey chickens a bit (although pleased to see pictures showing they are settled in well)
Good: Got a new x box game and it’s really good
Learnt: About joints and types of arthritis.
Nic:
Bad: Several novels I was looking forward to reading won’t be out until after we’ve gone. Looked at my reserved list this morning and realised none of them will be published before we leave.
Good: Dates for tenants moving in means we will be able to host people to stay for Bye Then Party 🙂
Learnt: Chris Price has got an Apple product!!! 😯
Ady:
Bad: very twitchy about handing my notice in tomorrow
Good: very pleased about handing my notice in tomorrow
Learnt: Worldwide there is more goats milk consumed by humans than cows milk.
But goats milk tastes vile! Really more goats milk consumed? Not more people consume goats milk?
Comment by Michelle — 27 January 2011 @ 1:37 am
M & A have been moaning quite a lot about how they’ll miss you all when you’re away, but I keep saying they’ll probably not know any different as we’ll see you all about the same amount of time!
Really glad the dates are working well and it’s all going well so far.
Comment by Kirsty — 27 January 2011 @ 11:17 am