it arrived!

Small is thrilled with his book, and especially with the idea that it is something he can learn to read. I’ve a feeling what he’s actually going to do is memorise it, but I’m sure it all helps. Big was reasonably pleased with her book, but left it to me to read first. Hm. And I’m not sure I’m convinced by the dance workout at all – I was expecting routines to songs from the film, not clips from songs from the film underneath exhortations from ludicrously fit ppl to do dance routines that are going to half kill me. But Big liked the look of it, and maybe it will be fun.

Hm. Did anyone else notice the fog this morning? Apparently you can’t see fog if you drive either a silver car or white van – or at least, you don’t need lights. Grr. Idiots. And less restrained words, but only if the children aren’t listening. Another member of my team wrote his car off this morning, apparently he’s OK (will see him tomorrow to check, no idea how he is planning on getting to work, and he’s one of the shift workers as well, so having a car rather important 🙁 ) but both the wall and the car suffered somewhat. We assume that the patch of ice has gone elsewhere to recover as well by now.

Other than that it was an uneventful morning, and a ludicrously hectic day. Only managed to break for minutes for lunch, and still ended up with emails to send when I got home. But I managed to take the children to bed and read to them, and Big stayed awake most of the way home – she’d like to know how ppl managed to learn things when they didn’t have computers to look them up on. She refers to this as the Olden Days – it’s quite humbling to realise that my daughter thinks of me as some kind of strange artefact from the past. Is our “Before the internet” equivalent to “Before the war”? She’d like to find out how school was done then – she decided that my primary school without so much as a personal computer in sight wasn’t quite far enough back to interest her, she wants to learn about the victorians. She also wants to make a Victorian dress as her previous one is too small for her, and she’d like to visit a victorian house and live a day here without electricity. No computers, she said in awe, no lights (we could use candles), no TV!

Could be an interesting little project. She might do some of it at school, except it’s holiday club this week, and was like a ghost town this morning. We’ll see how interested she is in the idea at the weekend – she’s already got lots of other plans for then as well.

Right, must make sure there aren’t any scrabulous games with my move on them, and then clear off to bed. I keep doing this, staying up far too late, and I’m knackered by the end of the week. Given that my week finishes at 12.30 am Sat morning this week, I could do without stretching out the first few days quite so drastically!