There is a certain irony in me working all day when it snows and most of the local schools are closed and other parents are ringing into work to say they can’t come in.
Ady has a COUGH at the moment. This has me consulting divorce lawyers, obviously, particularly at 3am when he’s woken me up by spluttering. He gave up on sleep and went off to work early finally leaving me in peace to get some sleep, which meant I was reluctant to get up when my alarm went off. Scarlett came to tell me ‘Grandad is outside, doing things to your car!’ while I was getting dressed. Which indeed he was – scraping snow off of windows etc bless him. I made tea and coffee for him and I, let the chickens out, some of whom were getting their first ever sighting of snow, started my car running (first time, hurrah for my car!) and dug wellies out for the kids before heading off to work.
Work was predictably very quiet. We had an ecclectic mix of staff as the policy is that you go to your nearest library to work when it’s snowed and as so many people don’t work at their local library we ended up with a fairly random selection of 3 regular staff, a senior and a librarian from Crawley. It was the last Baby Rhyme Time before Christmas and I’d planned a Christmas themed version singing only Christmas songs and some nursery rhymes with rewritten Christmas lyrics. Sadly only one person turned up :(. It’s a Very Young Single Mother (quite possibly barely 16) and her 10 month old baby boy. She is lovely, has totally thrown herself into motherhood and is doing a fab job with a very cute, happy, smiley, healthy little boy. She’d brought in Christmas cards for me and the other regular attendees and it was such a shame we didn’t have more people come in. So we dubbed it ‘Callum’s Christmas Rhyme Time’ and drafted in Sian to sing with us, Wendy grabbed a couple of passing little girls and their mother and by happy coincidence Sian’s daughter Imogen had been to the doctors next door with Sian’s parents so we dragged them in to sing too.
The afternoon went fairly quickly. We heard that various other branches were shutting at 4pm and even 3pm although we’d only been given the okay to close at 5pm (still 2 hours earlier than usual, but annoyingly my normal finishing time). I moaned about this and was told I could leave at 430pm then on official ‘snow leave’ 😆 It was actually about twenty to five by the time I left but I enjoyed my 20 minutes 😆
Ady had got home at about 3pm and relieved my Dad, Davies and Scarlett had enjoyed the snow and build snowmen and played in the garden. Ady had bathed them, fed them and got our dinner sorted and I walked in to a cup of tea and a warm and cosy house which was rather nice.
We read and the kids went to bed, really quite worn out from a late night listening to Iron Woman last night and crazy snow excitement today.
I am very ready for bed but keen to watch Eddie Izzard and Hugh Grant on Jonathan Ross so will probably manage to hang out for that before retiring.