Work for me this morning. And getting up was a shame as I was having a very delicious dream ;).
I enjoyed a good bitch at work about the state of the library service. All public sector workers have been sent a letter from Dave & Nick asking for radical ideas for cost cutting so that set us all off in ‘If I ruled the world…’ type ponderings. I spent some time on an NHS website training module -I think West Sussex’s long term vision is for ‘Service Centres’ offering library service, health care, a place to report pot holes, get on the council housing list, meet your MP and pay your council tax. I imagine this is phase one of making us all multi-skilled enough to be the one to boot the computers up of a morning ;).
At home everyone was in the garden with various chickens and ducks eating lunch cooked on the barbecue. I joined in with the hanging out in the garden and then we went to Halfords to get roof bars. We picked up a roof box courtesy of Ady’s workmate Fergie who seems to have taken on the role as our dealer for pretty much anything we want / need. So we have a roof box for £30 complete with a set of roof bars which don’t fit either of our cars but will probably ebay to cover the cost of buying the box :). Having tried cheapo bars we eventually went for Thule as the price difference between halfway decent and branded was very little and we figure we can ebay them afterwards too if we end up with a vehicle they don’t fit.
We fitted the bars in the car park to check we could, nice and easy :), nipped into Sainsburys and came home and fitted the roof box on. We’ll leave it on for tomorrow and check how the car drives with it attached.
Scarlett played with the chickens and ducks, Davies watched a HP film I’d brought home and Ady and I sat in the garden eating ice creams and hatching plans for next year. Then Ady cooked the kids tea on the barbecue, Davies and I watched Doctor Who, the kids had showers and eventually they went to bed. Not at all sure they are actually asleep yet mind you.
Ady and I spent some time perusing the WWOOF website getting all excited at various listings. At one point after I’d read out another listing of people living with no mains electricity, rearing animals to eat, keeping bees and making their own cheese and looking for people to come along and join them for a week and help work on their land Ady said ‘it all sounds too good to be true’ and I had to remind him that we are splinter group minority weirdos and most people would be horrified at the very idea of compost loos and time spent weeding in exchange for two meals a day! 😆
We had a very late dinner (quel surprise!) and were both rather worse the wear for beverages when first Scarlett and then Davies about 15 minutes later came to complain of sore fingers. One finger, unrelated injuries – I think Tarly’s is a paper cut, Davies seems to have had something stuck under a nail. Ady offered a tub of Sudocrem with an instruction to ‘stick your finger in that and waggle it about lots’. I suspect not only would we not get medical qualifications we often would fail basic parenting tests too! 😆
In other news I strained and bottled my elderflower cordial from yesterday and it is divine – Spring in a glass :). I also bottled my first attempt at home brew wine and the kids and I noted bubbles in our sourdough yeast starter and have added more flour and water ready for tomorrow’s inspection of it.
It’s 1am and I strongly suspect the only Goddard asleep is Ady but as we have to be up in the morning early-ish I am off to join him. I’ve left the Sudocrem out incase the children need it while we’re asleep…