And I didn’t wear a skirt.
I did wear trousers though, obviously. 😉
I had a better nights sleep and although still on the rougher side of well I do only seem to have a cold rather than anything more worrying. I suspect the rest of the family will get it in time for Longleat of course… So off to work this morning for me.
Ady was home this morning and he and the children watched the latest Attenborough series which Ady had recorded earlier in the week. It inspired Davies to do some drawings and Scarlett to play with the toy animals and recreate some of what she’d seen. I’m planning to watch it with them again in the morning as I want to see it too.
Not sure what they did in the afternoon with my Mum and when I came home they were upstairs playing.
I had an okay day at work considering I wasn’t feeling great. I started on the desk where I dealt with a variety of enquiries including ‘do you have the theme tune to Family Fortunes on cd?’ and ‘can you order in some books on starting nursery school for my daughter. And actually maybe some for me as I’m probably more wobbly about it than she is!’. After that borrower had gone my colleague grinned over at me and said ‘I could hear your internal screaming from here- do you struggle with queries like that?’ 😆 I had teabreak with several senior staff all of whom have heard the shepherd rumours and wanted to talk to me about that :rolls: Also told them about the mass lobby. I’m sure they have me utterly pigeon-holed as a raving lunatic (possibly correctly ;)).
I spent the next hour persuading a senior we should do Chatterbooks and childrens reading groups and other such stuff, sending out letters to borrowers with overdue books on loan and dealing with books coming in and going out from other library services including the British Library which is all very time consuming and adminny.
I followed that with another hour on the desk dealing with a strange American woman who comes in fairly regularly but I’ve not really had dealings with before and opening the post.
Then it was lunchtime. I did a charity shop trawl and found a really nice purple hand knitted jumper which I love but almost put back as I hate the buttons. I then weighed up how much I really liked the jumper and how cheap and easy it would be to change the buttons so bought it and will change the buttons to something gorgeous instead. Nightmare Colleague was also on lunch and I just couldn’t face sitting with her for half an hour so I went and sat in my car and read my book, checked my emails on my phone and enjoyed the peace. I don’t tend to sit in my car outside kids activities these days and I quite enjoy it every so often with a good book.
The afternoon went quickly – a couple of hours on the counter, a tea break and my PDR (personal development review) at which I was given pats on the back and got a lot of grrr-ness off my chest about Nightmare Colleague. Felt much better for that.
Back at home I was really pleased to see my Dad – don’t think I’ve seen him since Davies’ birthday although I’ve spoken to him on the phone several times. Mum had walked over earlier so he’d come to pick her up. They stayed for a chat and I told them all about the Mass Lobby and the Select Committee before they headed off.
I made the kids’ tea, practised a five section plait I’d seen in a book on Tarly’s hair and then they got ready for bed just as Ady arrived home. I read some Mr Gum and then they went to bed, with much toing and froing. Ady cooked a lovely dinner while I did the consultation, then I typed while he narrated his response to the consultation and I’ve done my No, Thank You post over on Monster and Teeny.