I shouldn't shop

when I’m down.

This week has evaporated so quickly, and our holiday seems a lifetime ago. Different ppl, different place, different time, different world. I miss it, and am slightly disconcerted at how swiftly I slip back in to a mock corporate mentality. Nevertheless, I negotiated a slightly different working pattern for the next few weeks, and we’ll see if that helps to hold the real me together a little better, by allowing me some day time to focus on house moving tasks as well as evenings for working.

Yesterday evening Kirsty popped in, to return some stuff that had been in her house (which is no longer theirs). Was lovely to see them, and the kids just all mucked in together instantly. We appear to have acquired Alex’s hat and possibly one of her necklaces though, which wasn’t part of the plan.

Spent the later part of yesterday evening reaquainting myself with the blogring, and shuffling ppl on and off according to dates of recent posts. Contrary to popular opinion, the ring is not hugely bigger than it has been – it seems to be holding steady at around 40 regular posters, which is the number we’ve been at for quite some months now. Not quite sure why that is – quite a few ppl joined and then stopped posting, so are now languishing in an inactive state. I shall try to build in a routine (again) that involves me going around and commenting and hopefully we’ll all get to know some of the newer recruits a bit better 🙂

Speaking of which, we have a new recruit tonight: Fiona at Learning Naturally. She’s next to Jamie at Jamie’s world, also fairly new.

And back to today. Lovely morning – I got up long enough to do some washing and washing up, and then retired back to bed 😉 Didn’t get up again til lunch time – incredibly decadent I know. Read myself an entire Deric Longden book, again. Then got up and pottered, hung out washing and that kind of thing.

Got to the point where I couldn’t cope with being yelled at any more, so decamped to do some shopping. Big has requested more experiments, so I went a bit mad in The Works. They had lots of science stuff – I got a kit to do 101 experiments, a solar energy box and a university of oxford smart kit on magic magnets. Noticed that they’ve got 120 Great History Projects in again, in case anyone is still looking for it.

And I treated myself – Zen Therapy: Healing Your Life with Zen. I’ve been fascinated with Zen since I started university and took up karate. I even did my dissertation on a comparison between Zen and Spinoza. So when I picked up the book and discovered even the preface and introduction are in poetry, I couldn’t resist. Seems good so far.

Got home with bags of stuff as I also did the week’s shopping while I was out. Big and Small were both thrilled with my purchases, which included two boxes of Geomags, on sale in the Works. So they made a variety of mathematical shapes, while listening to the classical music I bought them as well. That went down a treat – in fact Big has just been down to fetch it upstairs to their room, so they are going to sleep listening to Tchaikovsky. It’s a cd of ballet music, I’d tell you what precisely, but like I say, she’s taken it upstairs 😉 Education rescued for the day, and tomorrow we’re planning a solar energy project. I’m rather looking forward to that too.

And now I’m going to rescue my evening by putting the Sainsbury’s finest pasta thing in to cook, and see if I can talk to Tim into a bottle of wine to go with it. Hope the rest of you have a good one.