Ady woke me at about 6am to tell me he thought one of the houses in our street was on fire, that loads of neighbours were out in the street and the fire brigade were there. Having ascertained we didn’t need to evacuate our house I went back to sleep! He thought it was hilarious and wondered how close to the door the fire would need to be before I would deem to get up early 😆 As it turned out it seems to have been a car on fire behind some garages rather than a house. Concerning, certainly, especially as it would seem there is another car and a sofa dumped round there too and presumably it was a deliberately started fire.
We had a houseful today of Tasha, Toby and Vinnie and Lucy and The Rs. Lucy and co arrived first and after a bit of warming up Richard and Rebecca joined Davies and Scarlett who were already playing out in the garden. When the others arrived they joined in and the children seemed to play well together for most of the day.They had staggered lunches as and when they were hungry and Tasha, Lucy and I sat and chatted and it was all very nice. I needle felted two Very Hungry Caterpillars and have almost finished knittng my ‘Tasha’ doll. I still need to make two more ragrugs, some clothes for both the Tasha doll and the Tarly doll and then carry on needle felting as many bits as I can before the craft fair on Thursday next week.
Everyone headed off and Davies and Scarlett had tea watching Morph again before I take it back to work tomorrow. I’ve not liked it as it is voiceovered by Neil Morrissey. I never quite got my head around him doing Bob the Builder as for me he’ll always be the gormless one in Boon and loveable drunkard Tony in Men Behaving Badly. So him doing the narration for Morph just messes with my head as I keep expecting Chas to say ‘Can we fix it?’ and Morph to chime in with ‘Deborah, I f@*!ing love you!!!’ 😆
Ady got home in time for Davies to stay with him while I took Tarly round to Rainbows. I paid for the Drusillas trip and she ran off happy. I then drove to hand deliver the form and deposit for Davies’ camp as we don’t have a cheque book and I didn’t want to post cash. The traffic was awful and I only just got home in time to collect Tarly. They’d been on a coin walk and we were really freaked out when Davies, Ady and I went to look at the garages and as Davies walked ahead of us back onto the street we heard Scarlett’s voice delightedly saying ‘Hey look it’s Davies!’ when we thought she was safely tucked up in Rainbows. 😯 It turned out the coin had led them down our road and it was just coincidental timing.
I chatted with a couple of the other mums, both of whom I know from work – one comes to reading group, the other comes to storytime. When we got back home Ady and Davies were kicking a ball around the garden which was nice to see as I think it’s the first time they’ve ever done so. We all came in and I had plans for us to watch a film together from work so I could take it back tomorrow but Ady got distracted by cleaning up the cats litter tray area which had him getting the Ady machine out and everything so it got too late and we finished reading Charlie Small instead. The book finishes mid-air so we’ll need to get the next one although I’m going to check how many there are as I don’t want to end up reading heaps of them as they are good but not fantastic and I suspect one more would be enough for me to happily read to them before moving on to something else.
Davies is incredibly tired and has a bad twitch but was still awake at midnight despite him not having his notepad to draw in. He just doesn’t seem able to fall asleep 🙁 It’s certainly not for lack of fresh air, exercise, mental stimulation or anything else I can think of, other than restoring his sleep deficit back to normal after all those afternoon naps and early nights he had while he was ill.