Short attention sp.., hey look at that!

Things I have stuck with:
hair colour
Ady
this blog
home education (so far)

Things I haven’t:
everything else! Including all my other blogs, most other people’s blogs, jobs, hair length…..

I’m already bored of the whole twitter and brightkite (keep wanting to call it blackkite, was that some nutter on MP from a few years ago?) thing. I turned notifications to my phone back off again today and can’t see me keeping up with checking both websites and clicking back on comments on dullkite on various threads to see if anyone has said anything. It’s too much like yet another blogring to click round. I liked twitter, it was easy to use, I didn’t have to read conversations with people I didn’t follow and aside from being irritated by the ‘I blogged’ notifications when I was out and about it was a nice quick way of keeping in touch with friends while away from home. I gave up on facebook because I really didn’t want yet another website to keep visiting (and actually there is only so much entertainment to be had by throwing fish at people, I was crap at scrabble and I got really pissed off with being sent Mortimer bears to forward) to check up on what the same circle of friends that I already kept in touch with via other channels were doing over there.

I suspect I just don’t really get the whole ‘networking’ thing – that and my ability to only juggle a finite amount of friends at any one time so the whole notion of ‘gathering’ more and wearing them like some sort of badge just doesn’t appeal really. Anyway.

Davies was awake for lots of last night due to a nightmare. He so rarely wakes at night and almost never gets nightmares but he ended up in bed with me insisting on the light on so it wasn’t the best nights’ sleep I’ve ever had. Ady got into Davies’ bed but not before he’d been the one running around turning said light on and getting glasses of water (and lightly buttered toast, a copy of The Telegraph ironed flat, freshly squeezed clementine juice and the moon on a stick) so he didn’t get a great rest either. I was finally woken at about 730am by the cat throwing up in the bedroom doorway which Scarlett then trod in when she came up about 15 minutes later at which point I gave in and got up. (see I have no time for this luridkite nonsense, I’m far too busy!)

Scarlett decided to play Xbox first thing and did some random shouting at the Barbie wild horse game, because she still believes that actually the xbox controller is a placebo and really it is all voice controlled. So that was nice and relaxing. Davies tried to help and got shrieked at for being ‘extracting!’ (she meant distracting) and eventually she gave up and he had a play on an Incredibles game instead.

I have been meaning to try using lavender in baking for ages after trying some delicious lavender shortbread at a food fayre ages ago and having finally got lavender growing in our garden again in copious quantities (leftover from that which the children sold obviously) and about to go over I wanted to harvest some for future dried use and decided to have a go with fresh and dried while I still could. I found various recipes online and gave the most straightforward one a go.

Scarlett and I gathered more lavender and she chopped it up with the herb chopper thing which probably has a proper name (ah yes, it’s a mezzaluna, I will henceforth refer to it as such and as often as possible, what a nice word) and I made the shortbread. It made 8 cookies which were so delicious we immediately decided to make a full tray of fingers with double the recipe amounts. And at Scarlett’s request we made a batch of snickerdoodles too.

Once we’d finished our mini bakefest I had a cup of tea and some shortbread while the children did some drawing and geomagging and then we headed off to Lucy’s. We’d had half a plan to walk but the weather looked a little threatening and I didn’t want to walk carrying snickerdoodles either so we drove.

We had a nice time there although Scarlett and Rebecca wanted to be left to play together without Davies and Richard which would normally be fine but Richard was being shy about asking Davies to play with him and Davies felt rather like he was babysitting Richard as Lucy and I kept suggesting things to them to do. They did play for a while when Davies drew a picture of Richard’s toy rabbit which Richard then kept beating up and Davies drew corresponding injuried on the picture! 😯 Eventually the girls rejoined them and the last hour or so was better with them all playing together.

Lucy and I more or less managed to catch up and arranged to get together again on Friday, thus filling the end of our week nicely.

Home for tea for D and S, Ady arrived home, I read stories and then they went off to bed. They have both taken to listening to classic fm in bed (they both have old radios in their rooms) and have been going to sleep really early all week which is probably a combination of sleep deficit from last week, a concerted effort by me to get out and about for at least an hours exercise and fresh air each day and the relaxing music.

I’m off to work tomorrow. It feels odd to have a week off as it is then actually the best part of a fortnight between working days so I’m looking forward to it.