mostly harmless

Describes the day fairly well, although it wasn’t what I was thinking as I entered the title box.

Yesterday afternoon I made a superhuman effort to detach myself from computer chair and got down on the floor and we did mosaics. This seemed to go down well. The bedtime routine went well as well – Big requested that we finish the Elizabeth book (does anyone know of any fiction suitable to be read aloud set in that time period?) so we did that, and then started to copy some of the timeline into her folder. We didn’t get very far with that, and I think perhaps we must find a way to do some writing practise at some other point in the day. She also read her questions out loud, so that wrapped in some reading as well (and of my handwriting at that!)

Spent the evening watching tv and mugging up on the company I was to talk to this morning, very interesting ppl.

So, this morning. Slightly better night, Big woke just before the alarm went off, and woke Small in the process, but I can cope with that. Honest. Tim pottered off to his meeting, and I had put the keys in the locked door so that Big could let Grandma in while I popped off for a shower.

Company director called promptly just before 10, so I retreated to the office for a chat with him, which went well enough that I now have a full interview set up for Monday. Will be doing some revision this weekend, as it includes a written java test, and he asked me a couple of techy questions on the phone that had me struggling slightly. I know this stuff, I know I know it, but as soon as someone asks me something, my mind goes completely blank. My confidence is very low atm, so I need to do something practical to boost it.

Can’t remember whether I mentioned that tomorrow’s interview has been postponed for the foreseeable future due to illness at the company concerned, but tbh, this morning’s opportunity, in the words of the agency guy who has set it up, “blows it out of the water” anyway. We shall see.

Rest of today was spent at M’hell, in the company of my mother, shopping for wedding outfits. Didn’t get anything for me, but managed a new pair of shoes for Small in the sale, which we need to keep nice til the wedding. We also went into just about every shop that could possible carry wedding type shoes for Big and she tried on countless pairs, which were all either too big or too small…. 🙁

Popped into the cheap bookstore and got a bag of books to keep Small out of mischief, which was nice, and essential supplies for Tim from the nutbar. Then we abandoned mall, after spending 20 minutes in Claire’s accessories, as they couldn’t find the stand that the small hairgrips had come from, so couldn’t find a card with 10 on instead of 9 (took three members of staff to work this out mind!) In the time we were waiting Small tried on lots of those foam animal masks and eventually made a run for it out of the shop with a dog mask on, much to the amusement of an old chap in the doorway. His first attempt at shoplifting, I’m so proud! 😆

On the way home stopped in Asda (oops, I think I’m supposed to be boycotting Asda? Ah no, not yet, phew.) where they do a wedding outfit range considerably cheaper than the set mother bought in BHS. And they had wedding shoes in Big’s size! And when we went through the checkout they charged half price for them…

And finally home, for a quick cuppa before we dashed back out to ballet. Which was a completely wasted trip, as Big refused point blank to go in to her lesson as there were parents watching again, and there was no way I could take Small in there. Grrr….

Home for tea, and now it’s bath time. Finally! Although I suppose after bathtime I’ll be having to read the new Knights and Castles book that Big chose in the bookshop, that’s if she’s gone off doing the timestable workbook that she’s puzzling over now 😉