Stayed in bed late this morning, which sadly didn’t appear to make much difference to my level of tiredness or my headache. Felt unsettled this morning – today was the first day I hadn’t arranged to go anywhere or do anything, although I had invited b-i-l to bring Princess and Scott over in the afternoon, and he’d said he would. It’s an odd sensation, I’ll forget what is wrong, or more accurately it’ll slip from the front of my mind, and then come crashing back, and right at the moment, that’s usually accompanied by a memory of either the hospital room or the coffin, I think overall I prefer the hospital room somehow.
Anyway, started pottering about doing some tidying up and opened the door to the cellar to take the recycling down and discovered a pond at the bottom of the stairs. Oh dear. Which isn’t quite what I said. So then I found my raincoat and wandered off down town to buy a mop and for a general walk around. Unlike many places, town here is pretty much shut on a Sunday – there was basically Woollies and wilcos open, so it didn’t take all that long to buy a mop. Even in the rain it’s a pleasant walk, and I got back and checked my phone to find a message saying the visitors had set off 20 minutes previously. Sure enough they arrived moments after I did, just as the kettle boiled – b-i-l had brought his sister as well, who was very close to Katrin, and sounds unnervingly like her and K.
Princess had brought a game for on the computer which didn’t turn out to be too successful, and Scott had brought Connect 4 advanced. He then wanted to know if we had any boardgames, and was delighted with Poleconomy, which even in the basic format kept us occupied for the next 2 1/2 hours! Princess and Small wandered off upstairs after a while, and Scott did amuse himself between turns with the Superplexus
we’d got Tim for his birthday. This resulted in him missing many of the times who could have charged ppl, which could have been part of why he came fourth out of four of us playing…
It was a pleasant afternoon – b-i-l is just very sad, and we managed a couple of brief conversations in between children wanting his attention. Apparently Princess doesn’t want to go home and he doesn’t want to force her, so isn’t really sure of how to get her into any kind of more normal routine. They are both going back into school tomorrow though, although he’s got to work out when to take them shopping for clothes for Wednesday as they are both attending after all. I’ll have to talk to my two about what they want to wear – anything goes including party dresses as we are having a celebration rather than a funeral.
Oh, and I’d like to ask for recommendations as to what an 11 yob might enjoy in the way of reading. He thought Harry Potter was boring – b-i-l is going to let me know what he’s reading at the moment and I’ve said I’ll help out with suggestions, as that was always his mother’s responsibility. B-i-l (who might as well just be called Bil from now on) is worried that he is going to struggle in that area, and I’ve reassured him he is not alone, and that as of yet, there’s going to be little they can bring up in the way of schoolwork and homework that I won’t be able to help with, so to remember he’s got my phone number and to use it.
Just wondering now if I should ring round the rest of the family just to touch base this evening as I’ve not seen anyone today, and it feels odd. Sent K a text earlier as she’s gone back to work today – they’ve kept her in the office though and I suspect will until after Weds.
I’m dreading Wednesday. No matter how much of a celebration we’re aiming for, it’s still going to be a very difficult day.
The spare coat? One of the things that Princess left behind, including her new PC game. Bil says it’s spare so I don’t need to take it over tonight. Just as well, I really don’t feel like driving, though obviously I would if it were required. Pondering on picking up my course again and getting some studying done, or maybe just reading another book. I owe you a book review post as I read The Spirit Ring
last night, but I think I’ll just hang on until I’ve a little more to share.
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