Davies had another swimming lesson. The teacher was in the pool with them this week which seemed to mean they all got more one to one attention and practical help, normally she stands on the side.
Davies did really well, getting his legs up and kicking and ducking right under the water etc. I remember so clearly learning to swim myself in that pool, I didn’t really enjoy it at all, I’m still not that into swimming so I have huge empathy for it not coming totally naturally to him. Two out of the three triplets ended up coming out of the water this week for various reasons and from there initially being two or three of the children way better than the rest they all seem to have evened out now.
We left the swimming pool and went to the car boot sale. There is one which operates summertime only next door to the pick your own farm and keeps the same opening times as the PYO and yesterday was the first one of the year with the weather being suitably nice for it. PYO opened this weekend too and we might try and get along there for some strawberry picking later this week if the weather is good. We managed to only bring home one small carrier bag of stuff from the carboot sale, Barbie books for Tarly and a Barbie scooter complete with crash hat and matching holdall, a Gromit mug and various other W&G bits for Davies, some clothes for S from a woman selling everything for 20p and some last minute bits from the stall giving away their books and videos free at the end (I picked up a fish cook book and an ice cream book, Ady got an ET video and the first Harry Potter film).
We got stuck in a traffic jam behind what looked like a very nasty accident requiring fire engines on the scene to cut people out so sat in the car for about an hour before coming home. We needed various bits of food so I went for a walk into town to get them from the supermarket before coming home and starting to feel quite ill. I laid down on the sofa with a book but kept falling asleep. The children watched the Harry Potter film while I dozed and Ady cooked dinner, which was lovely, but I felt even worse after eating and at about 6pm went up to the bedroom to lie down for a while. I slept badly, with many visits from the children before getting up at 10pm to watch Lost and then going straight back to bed again at 11pm.
This morning we’ve decided not to go to MM as I really don’t feel up to either the drive or the socialising and we could do with saving the petrol money and the entrance fee anyway – this is our first month of the new budget and it’s going to be a tight squeeze from now until payday on Friday. I’m still not feeling at all great with a spaced out feeling, slightly wobby vision, a bit of a headache and a general intolerance for anyone around me including children, cats and chicks! I’ve just put the breadmaker on to make some dough for rolls for lunch and am planning some baking today (without childrens assistance) to make some nice food . It’s pouring with rain again and the children are quite happily playing. A day of drinking plenty of tea, maybe reading some books if the words stay still on the page and eating nice things is in order I think.
Those symptoms sound like avian flu to me. CULL CULL CULL.
Comment by Chris — 21 May 2007 @ 12:36 pm
😆 you’re not the first person to suggest it!
Comment by Nic — 21 May 2007 @ 12:52 pm
Not enough meat on them to cull yet 🙂
Comment by Roslyn — 21 May 2007 @ 4:09 pm
hope you feel better soon. sorry your budget tight – i thought you would be having it a bit easier
Comment by HelenHaricot — 21 May 2007 @ 9:18 pm
sympathies on budgeting, hope it sorts itself out soon.
Comment by t-bird — 21 May 2007 @ 10:21 pm
budgeting will remain tight and as I am still a bit euphoric and splashing it about at the beginning of the month we will probably always have an ‘end of the month’ few days I suspect. This month was a pricey one with legoland, dentist and a few other minor things taking all of the contingency fund and more, next month should be easier but with Kessingland at the end of it I will have to try really hard not to blow and spare pennies in the first week of June.
Comment by Nic — 21 May 2007 @ 10:51 pm