Up with the alarm today as Richard the mechanic was coming at 830am. I was most surprised to find Davies already downstairs when I came down. He’d got up so early he’d even seen Ady :).
I’d made dough for cinnamon rolls last night knowing I’d be up early enough to make them so I made them and set them to prove and then Richard arrived. I spent some time outside chatting to him while he got the van up on his recovery van. He’s taken it off to try and work out what’s going on with the batteries as it seems to charge up but not have enough power for the couple of times it takes to turn it over and get it started, also the sockets in the van are not working off the leisure battery but the lights are so something has gone adrift with the wiring somewhere.
I rang Mike, the letting agent and we’ve provisionally agreed for us to come out of the house on 14th Feb. 1st Feb marks the 17th anniversary of us first moving into the house and our first Valentines Day together two weeks later on the 14th Feb 1994 was a hilarious affair with me attempting a romantic meal in a kitchen less well equipt than our campervan, we ate on an occassional table and it snowed heavily. I hope our 17th Valentines day together is marked with just such atypical fanfare 🙂
So, cinnamon rolls, a round of two of PvZ with D & S each getting to choose all the weapons and then I dashed off a resignation letter and we went to the library. I had to print it off there but had taken in envelopes for it so introduced myself to the new boss who I’d not actually met yet and handed her my notice at the same time 🙂 I showed Tarly where the adult books on wildlife and animals are which was like an epiphany to her 🙂 She took out four glossy, filled with colour photographs books with glee :).
There is a big display of photographs of birds from the local ornithological society up at the library and Scarlett went through pretty much the whole display and named all the birds which is far more than I could do, Davies also read them all and when we got home they went through a load of posters we’d got from RSPB for the Big Garden Birdwatch and Scarlett identified them all while Davies read them all. I also forgot to mention yesterday that Davies had asked about BC and AD while we were reading about the Romans so I’d explained it. He’d grasped it straightaway and drawn a timeline to demonstrate his understanding so he could confirm it was right. I then explained about negative numbers because it was relevant and asked him what -3 +4 was which he answered 1 without even thinking about it. We talked a bit more about negative numbers and then about temperature too with minus temperatures. I can remember really struggling to get my head round negative numbers when taught them at school so I’m always chuffed when things seem to come easily when they just crop up like that :).
Back home again I’d intended a head start on trips to the tip but when I got the garage door open I was confronted with so much stuff I bottled out and decided Ady and I could do it together at the weekend. Wuss! 😉
We came in for lunch and the kids played with the lego and toy animals and watched Over The Hedge on dvd – in a bid to enjoy as many home comforts as possible :). Davies also did some psping and Tarly some bouncy ball making while I photographed some stuff and half heartedly listed some on ebay.
I talked to Dad on the phone, chopped up some firewood and got the fire lit and the kids did some PSPing and DSing while I did some more ebaying and then Ady got home.
Bad, Good, Learnt today sparked loads of conversation as we looked at stuff about animals sleep patterns, talked about why animals mate with the male on top of the females back, checked out something Ady had heard about golf balls on the moon
Hurrah for sharing facts and being able to ‘proper google’ 🙂
Davies
Bad: Didn’t get time to finish creating a Total Wipeout level on Little Big Planet
Good: I woke up so early this morning I got to see Daddy
Learnt: Cows sleep with their eyes open
Scarlett
Bad: Used up most of my bouncy ball kit granules
Good: Mummy relented on my getting books out of the library and I got four!
Learnt: Twit-twoo is two owls, not one.
Ady
Bad:Feel guilty about our neighbours who are sad we are going away
Good: It’s Friday! And Willow is being sorted
Learnt: The skeleton from the whale from the Thames is now on display
Nic
Bad: Slightly poignant moment handing my notice in
Good: Really impressed with Davies’ reading and Scarlett’s ornithological knowledge
Learnt: There is golf balls on the moon, maybe three, probably two!
The kids went to bed (although Scarlett did get back up and come and do singing with my in the kitchen while I was cooking dinner later) and Ady and I had a very enjoyable conversation about proudest moments, memories we’ll treasure for ever and our most precious and treasured experiences. Very uplifting 🙂
Love that someone has gone to so much effort just to try to determine 2 balls or 3.
Comment by Michelle — 22 January 2011 @ 12:09 pm