In a couple of weeks time, we shall become an official two income household again. Tim’s coming to work the same place I do – should be interesting. It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks getting it set up – today we’ve been out looking at cars so that he can put in an order for the company to get him one.
And how will that work with flexi-schooling? Ah, well, there is a plan. It’s a rough and ready one at the moment, but basically as the support dept I work in is also moving to a 24/5 three shift operation at the same time, I will be slipping a couple of my days so that I can be with children during the day and working during the evening. Does rather put the pressure on for the getting moved bit, but that’s no bad thing. And of course, during the teething period we will be abandoning children to relatives or friends whenever necessary 😉
Tomorrow we’re in Brighouse again for another party – depending on how I feel (I’ve an absolutely hacking cough and sore throat, grossly unfair in this sunshine!) we may go up a bit earlier and go to look at the outside of various houses. No point in setting up viewings until we’ve seen the locations, as neither of us wants to be stuck in the perfect house at the wrong end of a reasonable road or anything like that.
So there you go. There’s been loads springing to mind to blog recently, but somehow I thought I ought to get the change of lifestyle blog out of the way first. 
So like I said, today we’ve been out looking at cars. Small thought that was great fun, Big was moderately amused, I think I got bored first. That was after we popped for shoe shopping – bad mother that I am in part, Small has been wearing the same shoes for absolutely ages as there never seemed to be any pressure on his feet. Today though, he was big enough to be measured on the big machine in the brand new Clarks shop near us, and we discovered he’d gone up a whole size! 
So he has new doodle sandals, and despite Big not having changed size at all, we’ve bought her some sandals to replace her boots, and some different ones to replace her indoor shoes which she insists don’t fit at all any more. And after the shoe shopping we went up to see my parents – my stepfather has just been in for investigatory surgery following some sort of doubt at a routine check up, and he’s feeling kind of sorry for himself. My mother was sun worshipping – I can’t believe how hot it was today! Is it really only April?
Other things I could rant about include the insurance company who despite confirming in writing that my policy had lapsed still took the money from my debit card and are now refusing to refund it unless I return the insurance certificate that I’m not even convinced I ever received. This along with a succession of inaccurate letters and complete failure to send me the copy of their complaints procedure that I requested. Tim is suggesting I involve trading standards, I’m definitely going to speak to my bank (as I’d spoken to them prior to this occurring, and said I didn’t want them to pay the insurance company, but they couldn’t stop it at the point it was only an authorisation, and given I thought I’d cancelled it, I didn’t check til the other night to find out why I was suddenly overdrawn), and I shall be firing irate letters at the insurance ombudsman. In case you are wondering, I definitely do not recommend AQuote.
I’ve been reading lots of blogs about education/ teaching/ inspections/ standards and stuff, and I will try to get around to jotting some thoughts down, but right now I’m going to go shut the back door (it’s finally getting cold in here) then find some more painkillers for my throat, and then go kiss the kids good night. Priorities you know.
Oh, and I need to blog about Big’s reading, remind me!
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