Scarlett had marmite sandwiches and ‘red’ hula hoops washed down with orange juice. She arranged all her sandwiches into a tower (they were cut triangularly) and put a sea of hula hoops around them – I think we’ve been watching too much Masterchef Goes Large here 😉 She ate all the hula hoops by putting them on her fingers and telling me ‘you used to do this when you were a little girl Mama’ and then eating them. She has probably finished about 2/3 of her orange juice, which is in a yellow tumbler. Yellow and pink are her favourite colours. She has not eaten any of her sandwiches as she declares herself ‘fulled up’. They can stay on the plate until tea time and if she claims to be hungry during the afternoon she will be directed back to them.
Davies had peanut butter sandwiches and red hula hoops. He also ate all the hula hoops first although he didn’t wear them on his fingers. He then ate all of the sandwiches including the crusts, which he doesn’t always do. He did this mainly because I had told him if he ate all his lunch he could play with playdoh. He has got a drink of Ribena in a green cup but it remains untouched on the mantlepiece. Green is not his favourite colour, his favourite colour is red but green and yellow were the first two cups out of the cupboard.
I had six crackers with butter and cheese (mature chedder) for my lunch. Two crackers were Hovis ones – shaped like loaves of bread with HOVIS written on them and sort of digestive-esque in texture and flavour, two were round crackers with some sort of herb in them and two were mutligrain square crackers. Because I enjoy symmetry I ate them in order : Hovis, round, square, Hovis, round, square. I also had red hula hoops but I didn’t eat them all first and I didn’t put them on my fingers. I accompanied my luncheon with a large mug (stolen from Starbucks in Manchester, but not by me although I suspect I could be ‘done’ for receiving stolen goods as a result of owning it) of rooibos and caramel tea (from Lidl, very nice and about half the price of posher brands, I believe Alison drinks the same ones and there was a version of them at Melrose last week but that was the rooibos and vanilla flavour) which I allowed to get to warm rather than hot as I don’t like tea too hot, it burns my mouth and throat. I ate all of my lunch too, but my motivation was not playing with playdoh!
The children are now playing very nicely with playdoh and watching Shrek on dvd. I have just taken all the nail varnish off my nails (fingers and toes) and repainted them in a more spring suitable colour of a sort of raspberry pink to replace the burgandy wintery shade I have been sporting since November. The house is scented with my nail varnish remover now. I don’t find it unpleasant although I know that other people do.
I have rotated the washing drying on the radiators and there is a load in the tumble drier too. I have also been through the chest freezer in the cupboard under the stairs, made a list of everything in it and taken out some rolls and hot cross buns to defrost for lunch tomorrrow, two lasagnes for dinner tonight and moved things about in there for easier access. I have decided that we will have something made with sausages tomorrow but as Ady will be cooking it he can decide whether he wants to do casserole, toad in the hole or just sausage and mash. I suspect it will be sausage and mash. I have also decided that on Saturday we will have beef curry cooked in our new slow cooker which I am delighted with and on Sunday we will have roast chicken. This means I will not have to go food shopping until Monday and we will be starting our rolling five week food menu from then.
There is washing up from breakfast and lunch to be done which I am debating going to do before going to make a belated start on the playroom. I read some more of The Harmony Silk Factory while I ate my lunch and I am quite inclined to sit and read that instead of doing the playroom but I know I will feel very virtuous and enjoy the fruits of my labour if I do go and tidy up so I probably will. I will probably take some cds to listen to in there while I do it. For my combined Christmas and 30th birthday present my parents bought me a 3 disc changer cd player which lives in the playroom. I quite like it although I don’t actually use it very often at all and at the time I was pretty disappointed with the gift and wished they knew me better and had bought something a little more personal as it was not something I had ever expressed a wish to own. I could have listed at least ten things they could have spent the money on instead that I would have been delighted with.
Shrek has just finished and I can’t decide whether to offer the children the choice of what to watch next, turn the TV off altogether or just put something on that I choose for them and hope they don’t protest too loudly.
I have written their initials on their tubs of Floam so there are no future arguments about who’s is who’s. I made an alien and some stars which I have put on Davies’ mirror in his bedroom and Davies made a star too. It’s very effective for that and looks pretty cool. I am quite inspired to do something creative and space themed in there so I might get some paint at the weekend to do so.
It’s getting a bit cold sitting here, I think the heating has gone off so I will probably go and turn it back on. That will likely motivate me to get started in the playroom and the children are now watching the making of Shrek on the extras so they are occupied happily.
Right that’s what I’m going to do, going to press publish now and get on with it, yes indeedy…. Joyce I hope you are appreciating this, I imagine you’re the only one left reading 😉
Bloody hell woman!
Comment by Roslyn — 23 February 2006 @ 1:59 pm
hey it’s a charitable act. I should be applauded and maybe even recognised at some classy ceremony and presented with an award by Carol Vorderman or Davina 🙂
Comment by Nic — 23 February 2006 @ 2:22 pm
ROFL.
Comment by Joyce — 23 February 2006 @ 2:54 pm
Low cut dress?
Comment by Roslyn — 23 February 2006 @ 3:05 pm
Fascinating.
I didn’t really like the rooibos and caramel ones as much as the vanilla ones. I also bought a pack of the green tea with vanilla, but that was disgusting.
Comment by Alison — 23 February 2006 @ 3:38 pm
Nic, I’m truely speechless…. I stand in awe of your stunning blogging talents 😉
Comment by Katy — 23 February 2006 @ 4:14 pm
urgh I can’t bear green tea. I drank it once cos I read that Posh uses it to lose weight , I concluded it works by making you vomit!
And yeah, I think for something as glitzy as that awards ceremony even I might be persuaded into something low cut. 😉
Comment by Nic — 23 February 2006 @ 4:34 pm