Off to work for me this morning and a very pleasant morning I had too. Wednesdays are always busy; we shut at 1pm, a hangover from the days when every shop had half day closing on Wednesdays which sleepy little town libraries are still clinging onto. Also we always seem to have massive deliveries on Wednesdays which is probably due to more reservations being placed on Saturdays which then get sent to dispatch on Monday then forwarded to us on Tuesday and arrive on Wednesday. So I was on the counter for the first couple of hours which was nice and busy, then an hour on the enquiry desk which was also pretty frantic before finishing up changing my display in the junior library. It was for National Year of Reading in May which the theme was ‘Mind and Body’ for and I’d done head and hands of two children holding books up to read and surrounded by other books, using the senses as my theme. I pulled down the ‘May’ and the ‘Mind and Body’ banners and put up ‘June’ and ‘Escape into Reading’ which is this month’s theme and then changed the books the children were reading to things like Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, Doctor Who and various other sci-fi and fantasy type things instead.
Ady had taken Davies and Scarlett to work with him to a couple of garden centres. He skillfully managed to avoid both the whole Home Ed debate and the being on childcare duty while he was supposed to be working by claiming it was ‘bring your children to work day’ to everyone he met and as such the children were treated like minor celebrities! 😆 They got guided tours round the garden centres, a free go round Paradise Park (usually refered to here as The Dinosaur Place) for which our season tickets ran out in January so they were very pleased to have a free visit to and take Ady round too. 🙂 I got regular text updates including the rather scary ‘just bought a life size Timmy!’ from Ady mid-morning. Davies has been hankering after a Ben 10 sticker book and as he had been getting really crap at going to sleep (regular midnight and still awake episodes despite being in bed by 8pm :rolls:) I’d said if he went to bed and to sleep for 5 nights in a row he could have it. And so he pulled that off, thus proving he can get to sleep and allowing me to yell at him over it in future. So I doled out the £3 to him this morning to take out with him to get the book. Tarly got a pound to spend just because she likes to buy things. She spotted a life sized cuddly dog in the window of a charity shop and begged to go in. It was priced at £3 but she apparently sweet talked the woman in the shop into letting her have it for a quid! Result! Although it wouldn’t have been bought if I’d been there and her room is rapidly resembling one of those tacky fairground stands where you have to get 101 in 3 darts to win a deformed looking Tweety Pie cuddly toy standing 5 foot high.
We all met up back at home for lunch and then Ady headed off to work again and we headed round to Lucy’s. The four children had a great time, ate loads of popcorn, played inside and out in various combinations and generally were lovely. Lucy and I chatted and also ate popcorn. It was lovely :).
We finally left just before 5pm with just enough time to dash home and get changed to go out to Badgers. I’d foolishly got D and S to check their Badger clothes were ok this morning so although they could find them all they’d been put away by them 2 weeks ago and looked just like they been balled up and shoved in cupboards, which is pretty much precisely what had happened! Still they were both rather shamefaced about looking so crumpled and it was a good reminder of why they need to put their clothes away properly :). It was really funny to see them bouncing in full of happiness and with comments from the leader on how they’d caught the sun and were looking all browned and bleached haired, while all the others had suffered a wet half term and were looking depressed after two days back at school (training day for pretty much all schools on Monday I think).
I walked down to the beach while talking to Julie (still pregnant) on the phone and then did some running / walking along the sand which was lovely :). I then had half an hour sitting back in the car while my trousers dried out and I read my book which was equally lovely :).
Home for tea and stories, Ady arrived shortly after us and then Apprentice watching.
Tomorrow is the first day of The South of England show which we’ve been to every year since we moved home. Tomorrow is the only day of the 3 that I’m not working although my Mum (who ususally comes) is working tomorrow so it would just be me and the children. They are keen to go and it is always a really good day out so depending on the weather and how quickly we all get moving in the morning we might go.
Jealous! Every year we plan to go and every year something comes up. Have fun for us- hopefully next year we can join you!
I’d have said no to the dog also- cute story though 🙂
Comment by Roslyn — 05 June 2008 @ 7:51 am