I started today not really in the mood for work and it sort of carried on really. Maybe I should try and work out why I struggle to maintain interest in jobs after 18 months, I’m not like it in any other area -relationships and parenting haven’t gone stale although I guess they change rather than stagnate over time. I sometimes think being considered good at a job doesn’t help. I know that sounds odd but I’m always at my most restless when people are telling me I am doing well and insinuating that my ‘talents’ are wasted. I guess it’s an overhang from retail days when you were always looking at year on year figures and once you’d cracked doing something well you were looking forward to the next promotion or career hike. Ah well, at least I have plans…
It was a good day really, I feel like quite a fixture at the library, recognising regular borrowerers, knowing lots of the answers to questions, enjoying banter with workmates. I rang Shoreham library to arrange for them to send Davies’ artwork over on the delivery van and spoke to the guy over there who had put the display up just yesterday and was brimming over with huge enthusiasm for Davies’ work. He wanted to know more about his idea for the display, what materials he’d used and so on and was staggered that not only had the idea been all his own but the artwork was too. His former career pre library work was in art supplies so he’s got a bit of knowledge and was just so fired up about Davies’ talent :). He recommended we send the artwork to a children’s book publisher so tonight I’ve talked to Davies about a bit more text to go with his illustrations. I don’t know if we will, or indeed if that is the direction Davies wants to go in but I was very proud listening to the exclamations of delight over the phone :).
Ady was off this morning and they spent most of the time outside planting things and letting the chickens have some totally free range time round the garden which they seemed to enjoy. Scarlett had dug up four caterpillars to live in the insectlore butterfly garden from a couple of years ago although they look pretty deceased to me. She is keen to do the whole caterpillar to butterfly thing again though so we must try and collect some caterpillars soon.
In the Afternoon Dad was here and they seem to have had fun. Dad took the details of next term’s swimming lessons to pay for 🙂 Which is just as well as I’ve realised Badgers, Rainbows and Beavers will all be due to be paid in 2 weeks which is about £70 total :shock.
I arrived home and made pancakes for tea by request and read several chapters of Famous Five to them. We’re all enjoying them although they are throwing up various questions (most indignantly by Scarlett about just why George wouldn’t want to be a girl :lol:) which means they are not sit still and listen type books.
For some reason neither of them went to sleep before about 10pm tonight which was quite wearing. Scarlett was playing with her Betty Spaghettys in bed and Davies was constructing a ‘person’ on the landing using his clothes, a teddy bear for the head and a variety of accessories 🙄