the 33 years ago today post, mostly because although that was a pretty big day for me I don’t remember it, there don’t appear to be any photos of it and actually it was more about my parents than me really wasn’t it.
So to blog the day before the clock struck 12, this morning we were nicely lazy with lots of tea drinking (I made a whole pot just for me :)) and TV watching. I discovered that Fred2 (see earlier Fred & Albert post for the story of Fred1 and Alberts 1 and 2)had expired. Now Fred2 has not been quite himself for a while. He lost his fin a while back and in recent weeks has lost his tail too so he was basically just a fish body – the Boxing Helena of the aquatic world if you will. We were unsure as to whether he had some sort of fin rot type disease or if perhaps Albert3 had been eating him. Thing is, when we bought Fred2 and Albert3 in the summer they were both the same size. But Fred2 never grew – infact if you take his missing apendages into account he actually shrunk, whereas Albert3 grew like an overeater on steroids, like someone on Atkins supplementing the diet with toast. So about 2 weeks ago we seperated them. Albert3 got to keep the spangly tank with the light and the stones and the pump (mostly cos even we’re scared of him, he’s BIG!) and Fred2 got the old fish tank from the garage and was placed next to Albert3’s tank so if he had been eating him he would be able to nananananah at him through two layers of plastic (aswell as a fish with no fins can do nananananah!). He seemed to be doing OK , as far as a fish without a tail or a fin can do anyway, but this morning he was, well, dead. So I came downstairs and broke the news to Davies. Who dashed upstairs with Scarlett to go and look and then came back down again. We chatted about it, discussed what fish heaven if there is such a place might be like (lots of talk of fish cafes, all you can eat fish food buffets and an endless sea with loads of plastic treasure chests and pretend divers to swim around) and then Davies asked if we could bury him in the garden near Malice. I agreed but said Daddy would need to take care of that as I hate touching fish at all, dead or alive.. Dead cat corpses I can cuddle but fish are not my thing. So D asked to draw a picture of Fred2 in his former glory with fins and tail to bury with him. While he had the pens out I got him to make a thank you picture for the Thank You Neighbours too. We’ve decided not to replace Fred2 until the summer. Albert3 is already big enough to make the leap into Granddad’s pond so as soon as the weather is mild enough for that to happen he will be taken over to my parents and set free and Fred3 and Albert4 will be purchased together. So far Barbie & Unicorn are doing well you’ll all be pleased to hear. 🙂
Then in order to persuade D & S to get dressed around 10.30am I promised Davies I’d show him the cool animation site and Tarly I’d read her stories. They got dressed but Tarly decided to look at the site instead of having books so we all cuddled up together round the laptop screen and looked at basis rollers (2 picture animations). More about what we did over on Davies’ monster movies blog but that was a nice productive hour or so.
I made lunch and then Frazer arrived for childminding duties while I went off to work for the afternoon. It would normally be a full day for me but it was pro rataed for the bank holidays so I just worked a half day and got paid for a full one – result :). I did 1 3/4 hours on the counter, which I really enjoyed, two hours of shelving / tidying which I enjoyed rather less and a quarter of an hour at tea which was lovely as there were still plenty of chocolate liqueurs to eat with my cup of earl grey. 🙂 I came home with a couple of dvds and several more cds too – loving that perk :). I realised today I’ve been there a month today and thinks are starting to click into place. I was presented with a list of training sessions for me to attend for this year which I’m looking forward to and it’s all starting to feel quite familiar and normal. 🙂
Home to find Davies snuggled up watching Discovery Kids on the sofa with Frazer and Tarly being crazy. Frazer said she’d not stopped talking all afternoon but much of it was nonsense 😆 I think they’d all enjoyed themselves, we’ll have to see if Frazer’s up for childcare ever again ;).
Don’t expect I’ll be around much until Sunday – I’ve got a pretty full day booked tomorrow 🙂
Happy Birthday!!!!!
Hope you have a fab day whatever it is you’re up to 🙂
Love Roslyn, Tony and The Screams xxx
Comment by Roslyn — 06 January 2007 @ 9:18 am
Happy Birthday. Sorry to hear about the fish but by the sounds of fish heaven he’ll probably be quite happy there.
Comment by Lucy — 06 January 2007 @ 9:26 am
Happy Birthday nearly twin!
Looking forward to flouncing with you soon 😉
Comment by Merry — 06 January 2007 @ 9:45 am
Happy Birthday…..can’t believe I am not central to your party celebrations.
Comment by Chris — 06 January 2007 @ 9:48 am
I think I am becoming mad….I read ‘when he had the pens out’ with an extra inappropriate vowel. That’s the problem with long posts I skim them and don’t pay sufficient attention. A complete tangent.
Comment by Chris — 06 January 2007 @ 9:57 am
I could start another blog just for you Chris with a two paragraph precis of my day if you like? 😆
Comment by Nic — 06 January 2007 @ 10:19 am
Happy birthday! See you later 🙂
Comment by layla — 06 January 2007 @ 10:34 am
Or you could just use my template:
Got up (too early)
Went to work or not (delete as appropriate)
D xbox’d.
S played Barbie.
Insert bit about interaction with a friend/family.
Waffle (amusingly) about some trivial event.
Cook dinner.
Bath or not.
Comment by Chris — 06 January 2007 @ 10:43 am
damn you, what have you been reading the same book on ‘how to blog’ as me? 😆
You forgot to add a reference to laundry, ocassional baking and a slosh of sentiment.
Comment by Nic — 06 January 2007 @ 10:48 am
Isn’t it the laundry, baking and sentiment that give them the unneeded length?
Happy Birthday again, hope you’ve woken up to presents and pampering.
Comment by Alison — 06 January 2007 @ 10:53 am
Happy Birthday, hope you have a lovely day and enjoy the year ahead.
Comment by Ali — 06 January 2007 @ 12:41 pm
And Chris forgot ‘link back to previous amusing items’
Comment by Ali — 06 January 2007 @ 12:49 pm
oh bugger – forgot it was today. I’m sure one of my NY resolutions should be to actually remember peoples birthdays in the form of card sending (ha!) so I’m not doing too well.
Happy Birthday, hope you have a good one!
Comment by Kirsty — 06 January 2007 @ 1:25 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6236345.stm
Oh God Nic, they RAISE the age and we are STILL to old to join the army!
Damnit.
Comment by Merry — 06 January 2007 @ 2:09 pm
Happy Birthday, you young slip of gal 🙂
Comment by Bob — 06 January 2007 @ 11:17 pm
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!
Comment by t-bird — 07 January 2007 @ 10:28 pm
Oops! Happy belated birthday. I have tagged you (directed at your public blog) but thought I’d mention it here as not sure how closely you monitor that one.
Hope to see you at MMs.
Comment by Allie — 07 January 2007 @ 10:36 pm