one more day

down, one more to go before my boss is back. Well, there’s the weekend too, but that doesn’t count.

Children delivered to school fainting with hunger as they neglected to tell me they couldn’t open the chocolate bread until 50 minutes into our 60 minute journey. Sigh. Could have been the foul mood I was in meant they didn’t want to speak to me 😕

Work slightly surreal, and the stiff neck I’ve had for the last week spread steadily down my back today as I dealt with a number of not quite crisis situations. And then someone parked a lorry across the M62 one way and some cars artistically the other and all the roads from work to school jammed up. Bigger sigh. But I wasn’t the only parent rushing to get their on time, and the kids were fine. Big has been doing poetry and I started reciting bits at her – so who else knows

“if you can keep your head”

or

“two roads diverged in a yellow wood”?

I thought they were standards. I thought everyone would know them. No? Maybe I have a more well rounded education than I thought. There you go then.

eta oh, and Christmas is evil. I had decided that I didn’t want anything for Christmas this year, and then all these companies are sending me emails….

I may create a wishlist. Starting with Sock & Glove and moving on to Knitted Icons: 25 Celebrity Doll Patterns. If I promise to use the first one to make recycled presents, does that make it acceptable? 😉


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4 responses to “one more day”

  1. Do you mean “know” as in “heard of/familiar with” or “know” as in “know off by heart”?
    By the former definition I know If (and yes, surely everyone does?) and had a vague sense that the “Two roads diverged” one was the one that ends in the “I took the one less travelled by” lines.
    By the latter – I’ve wiped everything I learnt by heart at school, I think. The only things that have stuck at all (imperfectly) are things I read at home – Lear and Carroll and The Fairies.

  2. “… Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, close bosom friend of the maturing sun, conspiring with him to load and bless the vines that round the thatch eaves run…… um …. tee tum tee tum tee tum tee tum….” 🙂

  3. Nope, didn’t ever learn any poetry off by heart I don’t think. Although I do know huge chunks of the Bible instead, does that count?
    Anyway, enjoy your weekend 🙂

  4. know as in heard of although I did used to know both of those off by heart as well. Didn’t learn them at school though, just because I liked them. Used to have to learn poetry for speech and drama and did a competition or three on it, as well as passing exams.
    Suspect I may have known huge chunks of the Bible at one point too Sarah.

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