weigh a pie.
We had a nice leisurely start to the day and while Davies and Scarlett played / DS’d / watched TV I pottered around doing various unexciting things like laundry, washing up, putting a loaf of bread on ready for lunch and then got totally distracted by tidying and ended up clearing out what had been stashed underneath the sofa (lots) and my bag and my previous bag (which I’d got fed up of the accumulated crap in so transfered what I wanted to a new bag and left the rest in there :oops:). Recycling bin is now rather full of paper and I have a lovely tidy and organised bag :).
I managed to get hold of someone in my MP’s constituency office, explained about the petition and arranged to go and hand it over to her so she could hand it to him so we drove down to the town to do that. The kids wanted to stay in the car but I insisted on dragging them with me on the basis that ‘you are not hidden!’ 😆 The secretary was very friendly and said he was due to the office at 4pm and she’d hand it to him then. I have enclosed a covering letter and emailed him too asking him to confirm he will be happy to present it but as I am still feeling slightly at odds with the whole thing I confess to mostly feeling pleased it is no longer in my hands – literally and metaphorically.
Home again via Sainburys, this time allowing the kids to be ‘hidden’ and leaving them in the car playing their DSs and listening to Mika while I dashed round getting various bits. Home for lunch and then another dash out to buy some felttips for me. I now have my own two packets of felt tips for the odd occassion when I need to colour something in 😆 Am tempted to label them. My Dad used to shave off a tiny bit of the paint on the reverse end of pencils and write my initials on them for school, wonder if I could do something similar with felt tips?
We watched while doing colouring and it was all very peaceful and harmonious with the odd bit of tiddly-pomming along and chuckling at Bill.
The kids had tea and I carried on colouring, Ady came home and then we all went round the corner to Rainbows. It was Scarlett’s last Rainbows as she starts Brownies after Christmas. She does have a Rainbows Christmas Crafts Day to go to next Saturday but tonight was the last one of the term so they enrolled newcommers, said goodbye to the ones leaving and had a little Christmas Presentation Evening to boot. This involved the Rainbows singing four Christmas songs up on the stage and the parents being served tea, coffee and mince pies :).
Scarlett was just so Scarlett for the whole thing. While others were having last minute hairbrushings to look tidy, gathering up song sheets and being all very X Factor about the whole business she was thre with her tangledy hair, refused a songsheet on the basis ‘I can’t read – duh!’ and sang her heart out anyway :).She got amazingly enthusiastic hugs from all the leaders, she has been very popular with the adults, handed out lollies to all the rainbows and was sorry she didn’t have enough for all the siblings there today and was sad to be going although she is very delighted to be about to be seven. She’s certainly got a lot out of her 2 years at Rainbows, I’m not at all sure what but there has been a lot of it anyway!
Back home I read a pile of books to them, cooked pizza for dinner and Ady and I read Lord Lucas’ speech from yesterday which we found very heartening. Clearly I don’t have any dilemma about how I’ll be voting but I’m very pleased to know that people other than radical loons get what we do and why we want to protect it so much.
We did the pencil thing also and I always have the urge to do it here but as it’s only us that uses them there is no point LOL!
Comment by Roslyn — 29 November 2009 @ 11:50 am