Tag: Small steps
A Harry Potter household.
We travelled back from edge-of-country house to middle-of-country house much later than hoped for yesterday afternoon, given complete waffling around rather than rapid packing yesterday morning. We were accompanied by the dulcet tones of Stephen Fry again, and arrived home with only 10 minutes to go, so the children sat rapt in the living room…
Sunday swimming
Another lovely lie in, although I awoke to perfectly horrid weather, rain lashing down and winds howling or something to that effect. Certainly not a day for walking to libraries or swimming pools, and the birdwatch was a bit of a washout too, though we did get a flock of seagulls at one point. The…
A weekend.
We left CP and headed for the edge of the country, with Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Stephen Fry of course, keeping us company. We stopped briefly at a Tescos for lunch – unimpressive, but I bet it was a bit cheaper than Starbucks 😉 Then on to grandfather’s house. The plan…
Things other ppl forgot to tell me.
Got a voicemail from D, stepfather yesterday. Apparently it’s the coroner’s inquest for my sister today, which obviously I can’t go to as I’m in CP, but various other family members are going to. Felt very excluded and emotional for a bit, but that was all wiped out when Big had a major tantrum (think…
Harry Potter and swimming.
Despite heckling and all the rest of it, I did go to bed positively early last night. I then laid there for hours listening to a computer rebooting itself with monotonous regularity and eventually got disturbed by Tim coming to bed and shutting it down. I then got up at 7 o’clock this morning. I’ll…
A bit of decluttering.
There has been a heap of stuff in the kitchen here since shortly after we moved in. I’m not quite sure how it started, things have been taken away and other things added, but it was unnecessary, and today I dealt with it. This despite feeling for most of the day that what I really…
Ravenous readers and feeling the fear.
I really must start going to bed earlier. Although it isn’t actually half the day I miss out on, and Small didn’t get up any earlier than me this morning, so maybe I should just accept that mornings don’t really happen and evenings do. Hm. Anyway, was in the shower when friend and friend of…
Wayside school
Small has just come downstairs in tears because “there is no 19th storey and no Miss Zarves”. Disregard the fact that he was supposed to turn off his light and stop reading 2 1/2 hours ago and join with me in trying to work out why this is a problem. He was unphased by the…
We will socialise.
Long day today (although not compared to a working day. That seems like another life already, although it’s not even a month ago yet). Got up with the alarm, or as near as I ever do, and tootled off into town to get yeast and stuff to take to HE group (bought dates, that’s Greek…
Sum total of education today
if you scream or pull faces, I will send you to your room. Hm, must be more than that surely? Not a lot more though. They are both immersing themselves in buildabearville, due to having the friend codes now. Small will play on the computer for a while and then wander away, while Big is…