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Date: 28 April 2004 08:16:42
The piano is coming today!
Am I excited?
Can you tell?
I dreamed about it last night. The strangest dream, as I was camping with the school. My old school - the one where I used to take the children to camp in the summer - not my current one. We were camped out in a muddy field in the middle of nowhere in the most immense tents, whole year-groups of children in each tent, teachers included... and with bits of furniture to divide up the sleeping area. The removal men had to carry the piano across the field and negotiate the tent to get the piano to the farthest corner which was my sleeping area, and then get the thing to balance on the muddy floor without it sinking in. They then promptly charged me £77 instead of £45 for having to carry it under such difficult circumstances, including the children having to move the trapeze out of the way (because the tent was actually a circus big top) and I argued that it should be less because the piano was smaller than the average piano so it could have been worse. When they'd left, I realised that I would still somehow have to get the piano home once the camp was over.
Now the worrying thing is that I am seeing my counsellor this afternoon. I wonder what she'd make of that! Perhaps I'd better clear the mud off the lounge floor, evict all the children who are sleeping in there and do something about that bloomin' trapeze!