Hmm so my gift to the rather more structured HE folk out there is the bad / good / learnt today. Their gift back is introducing us to Plants Vs Zombies… something not quite right there ;).
More rain, don’t remember the last day it didn’t rain actually. Sod getting the car started and dealing with the electrics on the campervan, I think ark building might be more useful.
Really pissed off with vehicular things today, between the car and the campervan we are paying £70 per month insurance and both are taxed at about £40 per month so that’s over £25 a week we’re spending just to have two engines outside, neither of which are working at the moment. I’m not entirely sure what the issue is with the campervan and not really too worried that it is something not easily sorted so have taken over dealing with it and on payday next week will get a mechanic to have a look at it and get it roadworthy. Will also spend the small amount to get a new distributor cap for the car and if that doesn’t sort it once and for all it can go into storage from then, I’ll cancel the insurance and tax for it and use the campervan. Feel better for having made a decision. Frankly if we’re managing without a car anyway it might as well not be costing us money!
Caz and Bid dropped Archie & Eliot off with us for an hour or so while they went to do a gardening job. Aside from one short yell at the kids not to chuck toys down the stairs (fretting about chipped paintwork) I didn’t really see or hear them. Caz and Bid returned and we cobbled together some lunch and had a lovely couple of hours chatting about life, the universe and everything.
They had to go to deal with the dogs and eventually extracted a very reluctant Eliot who really didn’t want to leave ;). Davies and Scarlett went to tidy up Davies’ room where they’d all been playing and I tidied up the kitchen.
Davies was doing some PSPing and Scarlett some DSing when I saw Babs talking about Plants vs Zombies, googled it and downloaded a trial. The kids were both lured over and the three of us lost the rest of the afternoon to it, but we did work our way through the entire free trial. We realised it had gotten dark around us so hastily put chickens away, lit the fire, pulled the curtains and sorted their tea, which they equally as hastily ate, finished with some jelly that Tarly and I had made earlier and then back to the game.
Ady arrived home, slightly stressed from a bad day and in discussing what to do about cars and vans we lost another hour or so. I read a couple of chapters of Narnia to the kids, my parents rang to discuss plans for tomorrow and then it was 9pm. Davies and Scarlett were about to go to bed when we realised we’d not done bad / good / learnt today so we did that:
Scarlett:
Bad: Archie & Eliot couldn’t stay longer
Good: That Archie & Eliot came today
Learnt today: Kangaroos find it difficult to walk backwards (we presume their tail gets in the way)
Ady:
Bad: I’ve run out of beers!
Good: I didn’t have my appraisal today
Learnt today: All clown fish have three stripes (thanks to animal facts from Tarly’s DS game)
Davies
Bad: full plants vs zombies game costs money
Good; Manchester tomorrow!
Learnt today: throwing something west means it will go further than throwing it in another direction (another blast lab gem, apparently to do with the direction the Earth spins in)
Nic
Bad: Running really late this evening with still lots to do (stress infected from Ady)
Good: had a really chat with Caz & Bid
Learnt today: seahorses change colour to match the plants around them (ditto Tarly’s DS game)
The kids went to bed, Ady cooked dinner, I packed up bits for tomorrow and had a bath and then we had a very late dinner watching recorded Fish Fight.
ah you’re all about the gaming in your house 😉
What ds game has S got?
Comment by Kirsty — 14 January 2011 @ 8:08 am