Hectic days.

Worked from home yesterday, which was tough – think the phone bill took a bit of a hit! Managed to get done by 5ish, so we chucked the kids in the car and beetled off up the motorway to M’hell for another bash at shoe shopping. Took rather longer than it should have – checked 1740 while we were underway (aside, how spooky is it that that now knows where you are???) and found out that the motorway was busy for 4 junctions – up to 32. Where all the traffic disappeared – wonder how much of it was on the way to the school closing event at Roundhay park?

M’hell was pretty quiet, not much of a queue in the newly fitted out Clarks shop. Not quite sure whose idea the refit was, it’s horrid. The shoe fitter who helped us told us that the first few days after it, she spent the whole day with a headache! Anyway, Small was rapidly satisfied with a rather nice pair of shoe/trainers, but there were only three pairs in Big’s size, one was missing a left shoe, another had a bizarre fastening and the third rubbed her ankle. 🙁

Similar story in Kids at Clinks – six pairs of shoes later, nothing fitted. So we’d been there a good couple of hours and had only one pair of shoes to show for our efforts. Gave up at that point and headed to McDs, where Small ate precisely nothing and then spent much time in the bathroom!

He didn’t want to leave at that point, despite agreeing that he was very tired, so I ended up practically dragging him out of the centre. Always good. At the door he dissolved completely, as he thought his “player” (mcd happy meal give away) hadn’t come with us, and sobbed his way across the car park until we noticed the moon. Full moon, absolutely gorgeous.

Almost an exciting moment as we left the carpark – drove past what looked to be an assault in progress. I grabbed for the phone and coded in 999 while Tim spun at the next junction to go back and check, and it turned out to be a gang of boys play fighting. They were really lucky not to have the police turn up to sort them out – as we’d gone past the first time, one was down on the floor with another ‘punching’ him in the head, and it looked really bad. As we passed the second time, I could see that they weren’t actually making contact. Idiots all though.

Home, kids to bed, and a fun night watching FX.

Spent most of the morning this morning in bed with a really bad headache, which still hasn’t completely gone. Have managed to get some washing on, but that’s my sole contribution to the day so far 🙁