Didn’t blog yesterday, partially because I was at work all day and I never have much to say when I’ve been at work, partially because I’d made a start on another blog post which I still have in draft but was planning to post first but mostly because I got paid yesterday so after 10 days of scraping together coppers for bread and milk we were able to buy alcohol again and I got stuck into the wine pretty early so wasn’t capable of coherant typing after about 930pm! 😳
Julie was here with Davies and Scarlett in the morning and my Mum was here in the afternoon. They’d been to the park with Julie but stayed in with Mum – not sure what they all got up to other than that although I know they watched some Doctor Who. Davies had started making a Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory with an old box and some old loo rolls on Thursday night in bed so he’d finished that. I must get some photos of it actually, I was really impressed with it. It’s like a polly pocket playhouse – it all folds out and has various bits on it including the vast gates that swing open to let the golden ticket holders in, the chocolate river complete with waterfall and outside it has the swirly whirly chimneys all made with telescopic loo rolls all torn to shape. It’s ace 🙂 He’s made little figures to go in it of all the main characters and some oompaloompas too. He’s so creative and imaginative, he is able to visualise what he wants to make and work out how to make it happen, he has real vision and is great at making it all come together. 🙂
I had a good day at work, the morning flew by and I was on later lunch so the afternoon went quick too. I spent an hour or so on the enquiry desk which I really enjoy – I helped a woman who was from NZ and wanting to get back home for Christmas but without any internet knowledge and had been to a travel agents and gotten no help at all. She told me I was wonderful 🙂 And I researched and ordered in a load of books and photocopied loads of information for a woman on behalf of her 13 year old daughter who is interested in a career in midwifery or social work, and ordeed some large print sagas by Lesley Pearce for someone among other things. I really like working on the desk, you get a really varied selection of stuff to do (plus I feel quite important sitting behind it 😉 ).
Today has been very productive. Ady and the kids were already out in the garden (Scarlett in her nightie) while I was still getting dressed. The doorbell rang twice which I assumed with one of the children so crossly pulled a nightie on and stomped down the stairs. I hadn’t quite pulled it all the way down before I reached the bottom of the stairs to find David – the Thank You Neighbouur – standing in the hall looking a bit nervous and cooeeing. He looked even more nervous once his eyes had moved back up my body to meet my eyes 😆 I told him everyone was out in the garden and he scurried back out of the house again looking very scared and muttering apologies as he went! And I stomped back upstairs again to get dressed! 😆
Ady did some chicken maintennance and sorted out the coop me and Dad made with the run attached and the freecycle rabbit hutch as a nesting box for them (they are due to start laying in 3 weeks 😯 of course we’re still not 100% sure they are hens, but I guess the first egg will be the proof!) and moved the whole thing onto the concrete. Me and the children finished painting cardboard boxes blue to make a tardis for Davies’ party and I did some white and black detailing on the dried ones. We had lunch and then I grabbed the bull by the horns and began my most ambitious papier mache project yet with a dalek. Not at all sure how it will turn out but I’ve made a good start on it today and will try and get most of it finished this weekend.
Then we headed off to go and collect the ebay tent we won last week – about an hour’s drive away. We’ve not taken it out of the bag yet, will do so on Monday when we plan to pitch it to check it is ok, so now idea what we’ve bought really as yet.
Home again via Tescos and various shops in Chichester to grab some bits for Davies’ birthday. With the exception of one gift we have finished buying which is good, and I’m feeling quite organised for his party too. We also called in to the chicken supply shop for more chicken food and to chat with the man there about what we feed them longterm with things like grit and oyster shell and whether layers mash is better than layers pellets etc. all very interesting to chicken keepers and pretty irrelevant to the rest of the world ;).
Once home we finished what we were doing (me, papier mache-ing, Ady chicken run sorting), fed the children, then all watched X Factor (I still cried once so it can’t all be about hormones, I must just be a sap!) before packing the children off to bed. Tomorrow I’m planning to do more dalek-ing and I think we might be carbooting in the morning too.
has x factor started? ooh, must search it out, anna asked me about it yesterday! I love the first audition programmes, and cry every single time … sap here too then?!
Comment by Sarah — 28 August 2007 @ 10:19 am