I had work this morning, which I really struggled to get up for. Once I was there it was fine though, 3.5 hours is a perfect shift length :).
Ady and the kids did the queuing at the post office thing with all the ebay parcels I didn’t manage to send yesterday thanks to my car not starting.
I had a message on my phone from the letting agents to say they have a family interested in renting the house who would like to come and view it on Monday. I’ve been getting quite twitchy about this so even if nothing comes of it I am really relieved to have someone coming to see the house as it means the letting agent is being effective at getting it out there. Our cut off date for everything falling neatly in to place is January 20th – which would give me time to give a months notice and leave on the date I want to, Ady his full months notice, leaving party could happen as planned and we can have a week away in the van before we actually start WOOFing at the first host. So fingers crossed for this last variable to fall in our favour.
Back home we had lunch and then Ady carried on taking stuff from the front garden to the tip. We have a list of last things that need dealing with and clearing the garden and garage is on Ady’s list. I wanted to move some logs around as we have been stacking them up as Ady’s brought them home and then filling the gap so we’ve ended up with the greener wood nearer the back door and the seasoned wood further away. So having cleared a big gap I moved a load of the older stuff down near to the door and then did a load of chopping it up into smaller fire sized logs. That should keep us going for a good few days :).
Davies and Scarlett played and then decided to go outside too so they spent some time playing in the garden and I nipped along to my Dad to borrow his jump leads so we can have a really good go at getting my car started tomorrow. I also popped into the supermarket and managed to buy low alcohol wine. Not at all sure what the point of that is, it’s like bloody cheezley or tofu! A product masquerading to be something it’s not! Arse UU
Back home again I was feeling a bit rubbish. I’ve had a bit of a sinus headache and been quite congested and not sure whether it is the tail end of something or the beginning of something new but I was really cold and shivery and just exhausted so I went and had a bath and finished reading my book while the others all watched Total Wipeout.
That restored me sufficiently to send children to bed (not to sleep of course although Scarlett did fall asleep quite happily tonight without me needing to spend any time with her, just one of my cardigans to snuggle up in). Ady and I had pizza and watched the Derren Brown fest that was on.
Scarlett: Bad: Not allowed Mumma’s jumper to take to bed and snuggle with (she got it in the end) Good: Enjoyed playing out in the garden Learnt: slugs drop their slime when a predator picks them up and their slime numbs tongues (not learnt through experience!)
Davies: Bad: Didn’t get to watch Pirates of the Carribean with Daddy Good: No Squibbling with Scarlett today, Learnt today: Why emergency vehicles use blue and red lights.
Ady: Bad: Campervan wouldn’t start (battery dead) Good: Cleared lots of crap from garden, Learnt: No foxes on the Isle of Man (although when trying to corroborate this story I found a conflicting report 😉 ) so he’s now gone for no badgers instead. Not really a shocker what with badgers not being real in the first place.
Nic: Bad: Bloody car still won’t start! Good: Letting agent rang to make a viewing appointment for Monday, even if it comes to nothing at least I can stop being twitchy about it until then 🙂 Learnt: That my Dad has a superstition! He is about the least likely person I can think of (other than myself) but he always turns his money over when he sees a new moon. Today I was with him when he saw it so he told me to do the same.
No bad Nic
Comment by Michelle — 09 January 2011 @ 1:38 am
Remedied 🙂
Comment by Nic — 09 January 2011 @ 11:10 am
The folks on The Isle of Man are very superstitious (about loads of things!) and won’t say the word rat they spell it out or say long tail. There’s a useless bit of information for you!
Comment by Roslyn — 09 January 2011 @ 12:33 pm
hope we haven’t sent our virus around various bits of England! Fingers crossed for letting agent 🙂
Comment by Kirsty — 09 January 2011 @ 10:22 pm
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Comment by michelle — 10 January 2011 @ 6:57 pm