Wonderful Wednesday

Ages ago, when I was 15 I used to Hate Wednesdays (deliberate capitalisation).This was almost entirely due to the fact that the 19 year old I had a serious crush on at the time worked in the local Safeways up the road from my Mum’s restuarant evenings on the tills, except for Wednesdays when he was a Scout Leader with his Dad. He was 19, his initials were NY which meant I scoured shops for merchanised with I heart NY written on it in his honour and was convinced we would surely marry. But back when I used to diarise every single eye contact, smile and word of conversation I had with him Wednesdays were (to coin a phrase) exquisite torture as I didn’t see him all day. So I hated them.

Later when I worked at B&Q Wednesdays were the day we gave 10% off to over 60s. This is foolish in terms of marketing ideas. It means that everyone who has access to an over 60 year old relative they can wheel in will come and do all their shopping on a Wednesday and bring Grandad with them. It means you have to lay on extra staffing to deal with the onslaught and your checkout staff are inundated with elderly folk who are deaf and grumpy spending ages telling them how old they are (I’m 84 you know. And I live in Shady Pines residential home but this 10ltr masonry paint in textured white that my grandson is paying for really is for my own use so can I have my £1.27 off it please). So I wasn’t super keen on Wednesdays then either.

I sort of forgot about the whole Wednesday thing for years but just lately my bad days seem to be on Wednesdays again. I’m considering rewriting the lyrics to the Boomtown Rats classic to fit with this phenomena.

But today was ace :).

This morning Ady didn’t have to be at work too early so he took Davies and Scarlett round to Caz’s as it is on his way to work. This meant I had nearly15 minutes all alone in the house. This is noteworthy as being in the house alone is a Very Rare Thing Indeed. True I spent at least 13 of those minutes searching for a Top Cat dvd which needed to go back to the library but it was alone just the same 😆

I had a really nice morning at work, it was very busy, my three most favourite colleagues were on duty with me and we had lots of laughs :).

I nipped home to get changed and went to collect D and S. Caz had an additional 2 girls (aged I think 7 and 5) there that they were looking after for the morning so they’d taken the 6 children off to the bowling alley (Davies won :)) and then to the beach (Tarly collected lots of pretty shells and stones). They all had a great time and I stayed for a cup of tea and a catch up chat for an hour or so while they all finished up their games.

We came home and Ali and Freya arrived not long after us. The children did lots of indoor outdoor upstairs downstairs type stuff but D and F played with DSs for a good while and there was an exciting round of hedge surfing in a green plastic boat shaped sandpit which looked like something even I would have a go at :lol:. Ali and I managed a fair bit of chatting and we watched TV’s Adrian Goddard do his thing too. The children were predicatably blase about this :
N: Look Tarly, who’s that on telly?
S: Oh yeah, it’s Daddy
3 seconds pass while she feigns interest
S: I think I should probably get back to my game now!

😆

I made some pizza for children, Ali sullied my home and kitchen with couscous and then I made some pancakes for still-hungry children.

Scarlett was having a rather speedy before our very eyes degeneration into full on cough and cold so she was perked up with honey and lemon drink (good Mummy), some six plus medinol as that was all I could find (slightly slack) and some watered down wine for it’s cough suppressant properties (Hmm…). She spoke to Ady on the phone and said she had a cough and he told her to ask me for medicine to which she replied ‘I can’t, I’ve already had a drink of wine!’. Just as well he was alone in the car :lol:.

We had a very fun half hour or so of singing and dancing in my very small kitchen to LSoH music. Ady has rigged up speakers to play my walkman phone through in there so that was fun. We used kitchen utensils for instruments and Davies got so carried away he broke a wooden spoon. He’s so rock n roll 😆 And we did air guitar to Queen 😆

When Ady got home the children were xboxing while Ali and I tried to engage them in a game of ‘we’ll sing the song, you tell us the film’ which they were showing very little interest in really 😆 Ady took Ali and Freya home, I put D and S to bed and finished cooking Ady and I’s dinner. It was a very lovely day :).