The plan yesterday was for Tim to get the router (tick), me to do the shopping (tick) and then Tim to go see what he could find at t’other house that we needed (not tick). However the best laid plans often go awry, and in this case he developed a dodgy tum, so stayed here and I went foraging. What with faffing about on the internet once he got it running it was around 4 o’clock before I set off, and I quickly remembered why I hated driving down that motorway 🙁
Anyway, came back with a comprehensive car load of clobber to find another bloke yet again parked in front of our gate 🙁 but still with two of us unloading the car was a lot easier than loading it had been. And after we’d done that I was too tired for words, so I went and collapsed into bed.
Got up at an almost reasonable time this morning, and was pottering about when Tim came down to tell me that the cat had expressed his current displeasure with us by pissing in the middle of our bed. Joy. Double joy in that we had the double duvet on, so twice as much washing and that’s pretty much what Tim has done all day, wash stuff. With yet another trip out to our handy local Tesco as we’re pretty much out of washing liquid. This morning was bright and sunny, so we strapped the cat into a harness and took him out into the yard, he was very unimpressed to see that we seem to have mislaid his garden as well as his house 😉 The kids entertained themselves outside for ages walking along the wooden edges of the (not very) raised beds, until Big managed to fall off and land on her head. I’m not sure how she achieved that, these things are a couple of feet off the ground at most, so how you fall from there and hit your head I don’t know, but she did.
Somewhere in the middle of all of this and washing coming and going, the cat made a break for it and legged it into the big outdoors, and I assumed that would be the last we’d see of him.
Did more carting of boxes upstairs (approx 20, my legs are loving this, not, as there are 14 stairs in the main run, then a corner and another 2) to what will be the spare bedroom/ office but is currently storage, until we had room to put the piano in a more permanent resting home. This allowed Big to have a full scale meltdown over the fact that she can’t remember anything apparently, which was nice. Somehow she pulled it together and they both spent time sorting out their (new) drawers and tidying their room, which was a lovely (BIG) surprise 😀 Then it started snowing with a vengeance, and the cat reappeared and sat on the front windowsill to come back in. Since then he’s been asleep in the corner of the living room, it was obviously a very tiring couple of hours. At least he ate since he came back in – he’s been rather off his food all week.
Cooked a proper meal tonight and we sat down as a family – we have done for lunches as well. Quite determined to keep the table free of clutter so that we can continue to do this – might civilise Small yet! It was rather pleasant, although I’m not looking forward to the washing up – I cut my thumb on a chip of china at school the other day and it makes activities like washing up uncomfortable to say the least. Anyway, must go and get it done, as I’ve just remembered I’ve the staff meeting minutes to type up as well.
Kids are out of the bath – don’t know quite how it happened but water has come through the ceiling while they were bathing, so that’s a phone call to the landlord tomorrow (can’t see the point of bothering him on a Sunday evening, he’s not going to get anything done then). Ooh, wonder where I’ve put his phone number?
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