Twitter overwhelmed me this morning. I’d already signed petitions and sent emails about Syria, and I couldn’t cope with tweet after tweet imploring me to take action that I’d already taken. So I stepped away and got on with a day in the real world.
A day that involved a dentist trip for me and smallest, that turned into a bit of a farce when I couldn’t find anywhere to park, and then, abandoning the car, tried to take a short cut that turned out to be a dead end. This while wearing tigerboy and either carrying smallest or jollying her along. And on the way back to the car we were rained on. It was almost worth it to see these.
Then we went shopping. And on the spur of the moment I decided to treat us to lunch out. It occurred to me that I used to do this all the time with big, and smallest just doesn’t get those treats, and she ought to.
It was lovely. She’s good company. And no one looked at me funny for breastfeeding in the cafe even though I hadn’t chosen a good top for it at all.
So that was my day without twitter. Just a normal day. And throughout it I couldn’t stop thinking about the children of Syria and Niger.
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