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Date: 12 April 2004 15:09:41
at least until I break this mobile phone too...
am in fact on someone else's pooter - yay! - as we are all on holiday!!
500(ish) miles - we took a detour! - just to wibble at you. You lucky, lucky people! (in the style of Tyres from Spaced) Talking of which, going to the cinema tonight for the second time since R was born. Can't wait. Ridiculously over-excited about it, or at least I would be if I weren't so tired. Hope the film lives up to expectations. Going to see Shaun of the Dead, so we'll see...
This has the potential to be a long blog, so get comfy.
I'll get the rant out of the way first...
Nursery nurses still on strike - they went to talk to the council a week before the holidays, but no-one has heard anything since. Hmmm, what have they done with them? Anyway, the nursery is now able to take one (out of six) group back per day. This means R gets a morning on Monday one week, then Tuesday the next, and so on. Some mothers don't think it's worth it, some won't pass a picket line on general principles, so it looks like it'll be just R and her (fully qualified and paid up member of a totally different union) teacher then. What fun! How exactly is this supposed to prepare her for starting primary school in August?
Ok, I'm done now.
'So where are you?' I hear you cry.
Well, we're in the middle of a tour. Had 3 nights with parents, am having 3 nights with friends, will be having 3 nights with in-laws. Those of you who know us will probably have seen us, or should be able to give an educated guess as to exactly where I wrote this! Had a good Easter Sunday at old church, complete with baptism - cool!, catching up with everybody who hadn't gone away for Easter. R and D are enjoying catching up with friends they haven't seen in a while, and it's good to be back for a visit, but I'm starting to miss home now. Leaving I think is going to be tough all over again. Bum.
On a lighter note...
R got hair caught in the zip of her coat earlier and came to me (in tears) to fix it. 'Isn't Mummy good at fixing things?' says L. 'No! Daddy is!' I know my place...
D is being very grumbly, but it could be down to the excitement, excercise and not sleeping in a cot any more.
He is too big for the travel cot, so we knew while away he would have to sleep on an air bed. 'Should be ok' we thought, but decided to get him used to it by taking the bars of his cot a few days before we left. That was fun! He went to bed ok, but we kept hearing a strange noise, went in and found him taking all the toys out of the boxes and piling them on his bed. Now there are no toy boxes in their room. The next night there was much giggling, we went in and found D surrounded by a load of books he'd half-inched from Rs bedside. Then we came away and we completely cleared the room they'd be sleeping in... and they still wake up at an unearthly hour and amuse themselves by swapping beds several times.
Ok, that's not too long so I'll stop now. Hopefully make it back to a pooter in a coupla weeks! :-D