Which happens to be the name of a small Home Ed child locally but is a word I first encountered as a small child when it cropped up in a story book about a little zephyr who tries to blow a big black rain cloud away. I can’t recall any more of the story but I remember liking the word.
And is relevant because currently there are way more than zephyrs battering the side of the house and making me rather glad I don’t live in a campervan just yet ;).
I struggled to get up this morning and having waved Ady, Davies and Scarlett off I made myself a crumpet for breakfast and a cup of tea. I ate the crumpet too fast and gave myself violent hiccups, which both really hurt and were not something I wanted to take to work with me. Asking advice on twitter gave some interesting suggestions and I think I finally cured them with a too big gulp of still too hot tea which shocked my poor throat out of hiccuping but left me with a burnt throat 😆
My car started (I’ve probably jinxed it now but it has behaved all week despite really bad weather) and I arrived at work. I don’t like my all day shifts as they drag soo much, the afternoons are incredibly quiet and today this was proved by the visitor count we are doing. From 5-6pm we had 3 staff on and only 2 people came in for the whole hour. Something is very wrong when staff outnumber customers 🙁
I was put into a further bad mood by the Christmas rota which has finally been done and has me working both Christmas Eve and New Years Eve for the third year running. This really pissed me off and I made sure everyone knew it (I’m so mature 😉 ) – I will speak to the boss on Saturday and see if there is anything that can be done to change it but I suspect it is already too late. Am kicking myself for not mentioning in advance that I’d really rather not work both but Ady consoled me later with the thought that we wouldn’t do much before lunchtime on Christmas Eve anyway and we currently have no plans for NYE.
Finally it was far too hot at work. Stupidly, heating chucking out at full blast hot. This irritates me on several levels; firstly all of the cost cutting exercises, staff cuts, restructuring, book buying bans put in place while we literally open windows to let the hot air out as it is suffocating. That’s my council tax drifting out as hot air 🙁 Secondly the environmental impact annoys the hell out of me; we try really hard at home to conserve energy and be responsible but the council is behaving like that and thirdly I get really irritable and cross a bit like a toddler when I am overheated 😆
But all those gripes aside, apart from a dragging and too hot day it was fine.
Ady took Davies and Scarlett with him to a couple of stores and then dropped them home and met my Dad here who stayed with them for the rest of the day. They enjoyed spending time with him, as we’ve not seen much of him lately. I arrived home just after six and the fire was lit, the chickens away and it was nice and cosy to come home to.
The kids tidied up while I made them a hasty tea and chopped some more firewood up. Ady came home and we all caught up on each others days before I got off Davies’ bookshelf. One of those bargain priced Book People deals from years ago that has previously remained untouched (although I think I lent Merry one of the books for a while once) which finally came into it’s own tonight as we’re off to see Shakespeare 4 Kidz tomorrow, booked spur of the moment and rather expensively when I was checking to book HP cinema tickets the other day having heard good things about them and feeling we’ve not done a lot lately. I didn’t know the story of Midsummer Night’s Dream which is what we’re seeing so we read that.
My own Shakespeare knowledge is fairly patchy. We read The Tempest, Romeo & Juliet and The Merchant of Venice at school, learnt a chunk of a play to stand up and recite at the front of the class (I learnt ‘but soft, what light through younder window breaks, it is the east and Juliet is the sun, arise fair sun and kill the envious moon… shall I go on?’) I saw Romeo & Juliet in Brighton on a school trip and did a 3 day residential trip to Stratford including visits to Anne Hathaway’s cottage, various other Shakespeare museum places and a visit to the theatre. I recall enjoying most of it but don’t clearly remember much and suspect I ‘did Shakespeare without really doing Shakespeare’ IYKWIM. Davies and Scarlett enjoyed the book, will report back on the theatre experience tomorrow…
My dad’s first car was a Zepfyr. Like z cars on telly. Which probably only me remembers and can still hum the theme tune for. I also felt really grumpy yesterday about heat. I was working in a hotel where they have their climate control set at 18-24C. If you want air-con or heating outside these parametesr, you have to get them conference organiser to come with a psecial key and over-ride. I can’t believe that people can’t be comfortably warm at 24 – in fact that is far too hot for me. They asked me to heat the room up, I explained the policy, and then one of the bloody group went and spoke to the concierge and got the control taken off – they had the temp up to 28. I felt sick with the heat, and raging at the waste. Put a bloody jumper on, and eat something ffs, rather than sitting in a bloody vest top in the middle of winter. Argh
Comment by Joyce — 12 November 2010 @ 9:59 am
i am struggling a bit at work 5 days a week in over heated building. Actually I’m not sure there is heating sources on but all the computers and lights and people generate so much heat. I have a fan on my desk that I keep almost constantly on (so even more electricity used 🙁 and I struggle to adjust the angle of it else my eyes dry and I suffer with that) and windows are opened a crack at the top (sash windows) else people by the windows get freezing cold.
Comment by michelle — 13 November 2010 @ 12:52 pm
what a badly composed comment!
Comment by michelle — 13 November 2010 @ 12:53 pm