Yesterday I was at work all day. It was Baby Rhyme time day and felt like a very long day. Due to a change round in a couple of people’s shift patterns at work I am now working more with a particular colleague who is quite hard work. In the interests of not spending my time dreaming up creative ways to injure her I have decided to get to know her better and try and get our relationship on more of an even footing (she is very patronising which is just one of the irritating things about her. I am probably more tolerant of her than others but she still makes me grit my teeth fairly regularly and frankly if I wanted to be gritting my teeth that often I’d stay home and referee Davies and Scarlett in sofa leaping wars or something instead of going to work – it’s supposed to be respite!). I ended up doing the banking with her and then having both tea breaks and lunch break with her so it was a good time to put this into action. We chatted parenting and certainly found some common ground which leads me to have hope for better things to come :).
Ady was home in the morning and my Mum was here in the afternoon. When I got home they were both here with Ady having just arrived home again before me. Mum had on the spur of the moment when round here last week bought tickets to the Ice Show for her, I and the children. My parents used to take me and my brother every year when we were children, usually around my birthday and I remember it being magical and a really big production. My Mum did quite a lot of iceskating as a girl and dreamed of taking it further but never did.
Ady dropped us off outside and arranged to collect us again afterwards and then went off to get bits for dinner. We found our seats and settled in. It was a very good show, excellent skaters, loads of special effects, good music etc. I wouldn’t necessarily choose to go again and it didn’t captivate the children like some of the shows we’ve been to. Both of them really wanted to sit next to me (I think the prolonged contact Wednesday morning and yesterday afternoon with Granny was enough, coupled with not having seen me all day which can make them a bit cuddly on days when I work all day) and then Davies got upset about a stray pigeon that had found its way into the centre and flapped around for most of the second half. Davies’ favourite animals are sheep and pigeons and he was really worried that it was getting scared and fretful (which realistically it would have been).
As is so often the case when I think they have gotten nothing out of an experience though they were both full of it all the way home and have been referring back to it loads and talking about going again next year though! Scarlett was up on her feet dancing along and clapping like mad for the finale so I guess ending on a high was enough for her :).
A late night home though as we weren’t back til gone 10pm. Ady had run me a bath and got a curry cooking so Mum stayed for dinner and left around midnight.
Today was a lazy start for some people (well me actually ;)) and my Dad called round which was nice as we’ve not seen him for a couple of weeks (might have been my birthday actually?). Davies did some legoing, need to get the remainder of the lego out of my parents loft actually as I think there is a fair bit more still there and the children are playing with it lots at the moment.
Ady and the children spent some time in the garden, I did some knitting and mastered another couple of patterns. No idea what I’ll do with this knowledge mind you :). Everyone came in for lunch and then we headed off to Magic Lantern. We’d already read the booklet about the film earlier this week and the children were looking forward to seeing the film – Chang a silent movie from 1927. I think we were the only parents who didn’t stay and actually I’d have quite liked to see the film but all the time they are happy for us to leave them and go we’re going to make the most of it :).
Ady and I had a wander round the shops in Shoreham and had originally intended to have a coffee in one of the cafes but having only had lunch before we came out neither of us really wanted one. It was nice just to be the two of us though :).
We collected Davies and Scarlett and then we dropped Ady home and went over to collect a bucket full of pond water from my Dad to take to our allotment pond to get some microscopic pond life over there. This had the dual purpose of finishing off the bits needed for a WAA on creating a wildlife pond and getting some photos to illustrate it and in having a quick progress check of things at the allotment too. Will blog about that in the relevant place tomorrow.
We came home and then Ady went out to get some various bits for dinner today and tomorrow. The kids did some DSing, I did some knitting and then when Ady got home I made dinner for them and prepared ours. I had a bath which the kids then got into after their tea.
We watched XFiles I want to believe which was saved only by being an X files film with Mulder and Scully and their back story. And possibly Billy Connolly.
Am slightly unnerved at the idea of you knitting, don’t know why. Even allotmenting, which realistically is going to grow vegetables rather than meat can be seen to have a reason behind it, but knitting…well…so what patterns are you working on?
😆 Jax *I’m* unnerved by me knitting!
Not really working to patterns, I don;t think I have the attention span for them. I’ve been using a book called ‘knitty gritty’ and getting my head round various stitches and increasing and decreasing. I’m working my way through a bag of single balls of wool I bought cos I liked them but obviously not enough to make anything much with one ball. The plan is a blanket made up of random squares.
Quite like the idea of yarnbombing though 😉 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4305406/Knitters-turn-to-graffiti-artists-with-yarnbombing.html