I slept in this morning so everything was much later than it should have been really. We had no plans for the day until Badgers this evening and I offered a few choices but both Davies and Scarlett were happy for another day at home really.
We watched Evacuation together which we’re all really enjoying and then a documentary about Venus (Earth’s evil twin) which was interesting, then we all lapsed into quiet beating the computer games – me on my laptop and the kids on their DSs – Scarlett was playing Boys Toys or something similarly titled which looked to be a load of minigames including things like spot the difference and rubbing off part of a picture then a multi-choice about what you thought it was. She is still adamant she is never going to learn to read but she was doing a fairly credible job of identifying the picture then deciding which of the 3 words started with the correct letter ;). Davies was playing Transformers. He got bored quickest and played Xbox for a short while instead, leaving the sound down because ‘then I get to practise reading at the same time!’ as it has subtitles for any dialogue on the Star Wars game he was playing.
I made some cheese scones for lunch as we only had fairly stale white sliced bread and then made some snickerdoodles too as I had a cinnamon craving :). They all went down very well :).
The rain that had been colouring the sky a stunning dark grey but not actually arriving still hadn’t put in an appearance so I decided to drive over to my parents and fill my car radiator up. No one was home but I’d just filled a jug with water and gone to open the bonnet to discover the catch didn’t seem to be working when Dad pulled up. We both faffed around with the catch and couldn’t get it open so Dad jumped in and we drove up the road to a mechanic he knows. He had a quick look and also couldn’t open it so said if I took it back tomorrow he’d have a look at it for me then. Dad and I worked out a speedy getting my car back to his house tonight so he could take it up there in the morning and then collect it and come and pick me up from work in it tomorrow plan and we drove home again. Fingers crossed it is a niggly and easily fixed thing rather than something needing parts – it’s already cost me the £60 insurance excess to have the windscreen fixed and it has it’s MOT due next month so I am fretting about car costs atm.
We’d taken some snickerdoodles over so we went in for a cup of tea and chat which was nice. Dad showed me the brochure for the holiday he is booking for February for him and Mum (4 weeks in NZ) and bemoaned not knowing what best to do with his money at the moment as banks are not paying much in the way of interest. He was debating buying another property (he clearly has even more capital than I thought) so I suggested ‘investing’ in our house and sorting our kitchen out! No idea if he will and I suspect it will annoy my Mum who still regularly tries to plead poverty to Ady.
Back home again and I stuck some tea in the oven for the kids then went out and totally de-crapped my car of all the broken cd boxes, scratched cds, sticks and stones and sweet wrappers, parking tickets (pay and display ones, not fines) and general rubbish straight into the wheelie bin. I then parked it on the drive and brought the hoover out and hoovered it all too. Clearly this won’t make it cost less to have various things fixed but made me feel better about the prospect of spending money on it! I also found Davies’ phone which has been missing since the Sustainability camping trip and we’d started to give up hope on finding :). Davies then instantly remembered having put it in the door where I found it :rolls:
Off to Badgers where our usual mates were heading off for a walk but Ady was about 15 minutes away so I said I’d wait for him instead and they said they’d be back to join us soon. I sat in the coffee lounge and had a cup of tea and then Ady rang to say he was there. I’ve just rememered I left my tea cup lying around :oops:. I walked to Waitrose to meet Ady and we walked back to collect his car and then drove to where I thought we were supposed to be giving blood to see what the parking situation there was like and whether we’d be better going in one car or two. We totally failed to find it at all (church hall) and had to get back to collect the children. We were asked if we could stay next week (booking us in advance!) and all the Badgers who did the parade were given some chocolate buttons for doing so well. 🙂
We had another go at finding the church hall – Scarlett and I in my car, Davies and Ady in Ady’s, failed and gave up, only to drive past it as we turned round. It was only 15 minutes before the session finished though and there was no parking so it was another failed attempt to do something today.
We drove to my parents where I left my car ready for Dad to take to the workshop in the morning and came home. In the car Davies and Scarlett played ‘name that tune’ with the music on my phone. Davies is very good at it :).
I read the first couple of chapters of which took us to 9pm. I had a bath and cooked dinner and Ady and I watched Come Dine With Me while eating. Davies sent me several text messsages from his bedroom which is rather a scary sign of the times.