I had a lie in this morning, it’s been quite a week! 😉 Ady went off to the office to print off his resignation letter and hand it in. Although he was handing it in to the MD who already knew having been told by Miranda he was still really nervous. He said when he was folding the letter up to put it in the envelope his hands were shaking.
Ady has been asked to keep it fairly quiet until an official announcement on Monday but has told a couple of close workmates and got a mixed reaction of mostly positive but a couple who think he is pretty mad! I’m guessing they’ll be blaming me 😉 It’s weighed heavy on Ady not saying anything at work so it’s a massive relief to have it out in the open now.
I had some bits I wanted to do online so we decided to have a morning at home and go out this afternoon. We wanted to do the World Beach Project pebble pictures before we go and also Hove Museum which we’ve been meaning to get to for weeks so we decided to see what the weather was doing after lunch and make a decision based on indoor or outdoor weather conditions.
Davies did some Xboxing, Scarlett some DSing and I did some telling the world online 🙂 I also did some getting fed up with people collecting, or rather failing to collect freecycle stuff. Stupid questions today include: ‘will it fit in the back of my sister’s car?’ I don’t know, why don’t you come and try! and ‘can I lift it?’ I don’t know, do you have arms? Pillocks!
After lunch we decided it was dry and bright, if very cold so we should probably do the beach. We’d talked a bit about how we were going to do it and gathered a tub and a towel each having watched a video on the website . The kids decided they wanted to do their own. Davies went for the approach of finding some interesting stones and getting inspired by one to suggest a picture. He found one that looked to him like a T rex head so he found more stones to create a whole dinosaur
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Scarlett had already decided before we even got to the beach that she would do a cat so she was specifically looking for the component stones to become eyes, nose, whiskers etc.
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I had wanted to do a complete picture with full background and initially thought I’d do a sunset over the sea but I wasn’t happy with it so I changed it:
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It was enjoyable and we’d definitely do it again, I’d have stayed longer but it was very cold which sped us up a bit. So much so that we were done within the hour so we decided to go to the museum too. I’d thought the featured exhibition on moving pictures and stories in pictures would be bigger as last years recycled art was excellent and kept us engaged for ages. This was good but possibly aimed at a slightly younger age group and a bit too ‘guided’ if that makes sense. We do quite a lot of looking at pictures and talking about them but both the kids are pretty adept at drawing their own conclusions and projecting their own ideas and feelings on to art so didn’t need quite so much direction, it almost felt like reading the trail guide was interfering with us. Glad we went though.
We came home via the supermarket and were all really cold so we lit the fire early to warm up. D&S played with geomags for a while and we talked about the Scott of the Antarctic book we’d read yesterday as they both had some questions about it. Ady arrived home while I was cooking the kids tea so we had a nice hour or so just catching up on each others days while they ate and did bad, good, learnt today.
Davies:
Bad: Don’t have Pirates of the Carribean here to watch now – Ady was home early enough for them to have watched it today but I haven’t picked it up from work yet, they are on the third one now.
Good: Got to the museum after waiting ages.
Learnt: 104 weeks is two years
Nic
Bad: Too cold on the beach to stay for very long
Good: Did the beach AND the museum
Learnt: Even when you are *giving* people something for nothing they are still arses!
Ady:
Bad: A couple of my workmates were really sad about me handing my notice in today. I’ll miss them lots too.
Good: Handed my notice in – the last bit that we have control over, everything else is out of our control
Learnt: The sound of a whip cracking is the breaking of the sound barrier
Scarlett:
Bad: The museum wasn’t as good as I was expecting it to be
Good: We made pictures on the beach
Learnt: You can buy packets of sweets with all different ones in there (Randoms)
The kids brought me a pile of Dr Seuss books to read for stories and I watched Human Planet which was fascinating.
love, love, love the family pebble pic!
i now refuse to freecycle/freegle for things i can take to a charity shop as it seems to take a lot more energy interacting with people i dont want to interact with and waiting for them to turn up than i seem to have available. However the chap who took our fridge/freezer was very appreciative (though M had to help him – no way could he have managed on his own!)
Comment by michelle — 28 January 2011 @ 12:23 pm