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Date: 15 October 2008 15:52:53
OK, so I was thwarted in my attempt to be an evil (or even a kind) mummy. The floor mat was rejected on the grounds that nobody really ought to be allowed to support Chelsea. It is clearly a criminal act in its own right. I could have told them that! But it does mean that today has been spent online-floormat-shopping. Surely, surely, they can't object to multi-coloured stripes!
I have not succeeded in getting very far with the cleaning on account of the fact that I have spent all day on the telephone. I am sure I am getting telephonist's ear! The biggest challenge has been organising a half hour visit for Friday. Simple, you'd think. Oh no - they don't do half hour visits. Why a half hour visit? Well, because he has a welfare review on Friday, to which I am invited, and we will arrive there three quarters of an hour before it is due to start... and that three quarters of an hour falls within normal visiting hours. But they don't do half hour visits, and I can't book an hour's visit and leave early because he has a review. Cue gritted teeth and forced politeness: YES, I KNOW, I'M THERE FOR THE REVIEW TOO! But finally we have it sorted, and I have to admit, they're generally pretty good. So my task for tomorrow is to go to Waterstones and buy myself the right sort of book for reading on the train :D
The good news is, I am now thoroughly sinked. Yes, sinked. Not sunk. I have a new sink in the bathroom and another in the little room which houses my loo (and random reading materials!), to say nothing of new lights in my lounge by which I can actually see (shame - I now realise how desperately cluttered it all is!) and new shelving in the loo room (for more random reading materials, of course. After all, I don't want to get bored, do I?)
Now, I had better go and thank Charlie for the little presents he has brought for me and the Smudgelet and find a plastic bag to.. er... bury them in.