Think I preferred Sunday.
Yesterday, I got up late, pottered to Sainsbury’s, got back before Jan and family arrived, had a very pleasant lunch with them, cleared up, got in the car, went to Kirsty’s, where Barbara was as well, hid in the kitchen while children played and ate and played some more and then came home and watched dubious tv.
It was good.
Today I got up late, pottered around doing washing, hung it out in the freezing sunshine, tried to avoid arguments with children, failed, and am now hiding in the living room while they investigate the neon playdoh that came with Play Doh – Aquarium Theme
. It was in a box. The box has now been emptied, more stuff has gone into their bedrooms, a couple more non writing felt tips have been thrown out and I’ve turned off my mobile phone to avoid the repeated phone calls from t-mobile who I suspect want me to extend my contract while all I want to do is leave them and never deal with them ever again.
I’m freezing. I’m making myself a cup of tea and going back to bed. I’ve work tomorrow, then not until next Monday, I should be able to cope with that. Probably.
Scanned some of the book we borrowed from Kirsty, The River Cottage Cookbook
and was quite amused to recognise almost direct quotes from the John Seymour book I was reading the other night. Our suspicion with John Seymour is that actually he made his living writing about self-sufficiency rather than doing it, and we have an amusing mental image of someone with the complete book
under their arm, buying their 5 acres, going off to be self-sufficient, and a couple of years later, sitting in the ruin of the house they tried to build, with the bricks they made themselves by following the instructions in the book (two pages on how to make bricks, two pages on how to build houses) wondering where it all went wrong. Which is not to say I think it’s a bad book, I think it’s an excellent book for showing you all the possibilities, but before you launched forth, I think it would be a really good idea to have much more information, and preferably some experience in some of the activities first. Still, I have milked a cow before, several times in fact, shouldn’t imagine a goat is much different. And we used to keep chickens at school. My primary school, not the montessori. There you go, must be pretty much qualified then 😉
Now, the big decision.
Bath or bed?
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