Gin and subtitles are the only way to watch Eurovision. Sambuca is also good. I can't remember the last time I was this tipsy.
I will so regret this tomorrow. And I have seen this and I am wondering if the gin I bought was entirely legal.
Saturday, 18 May 2013
Clothing sorted
I bought a bundle of four shirts from ebay for a total of £6.70 inc p&p. They are lovely, clean and nice and bear will look great in them. They are all short sleeved shirts which are the type he prefers and he is quite keen on all but one of them.
This shirt is in the latest crack of fashion (or if not latest then more recent than I have caught up with) and has blue stripes and pretty blue flowers on it. I looked at it extremely doubtfully. DH was not impressed. DF liked it, but he enjoyed fashion during the 1970s and the shirt fits right in there. Bear decided that this shirt could go to school and be cut up. I will get it washed and ironed for Monday. I shall also wash out the crisp packets.
I am going to get a supermarket delivery and I am not happy. It is bear's lunches that have broken it. I am beyond my wit's end with them. He is refusing sandwiches and all my attempts to add protein. I wish he would eat cheese, but if he doesn't like it then he doesn't like it. I am going to be doing some research.
He is not eating much at all anyway, so I may be able to swing back to sandwiches later. Until then I have caved enough to get some packets of ready to eat chicken (which hurt) and I will also pick up some drumsticks to make for him to have with the goodies in his box. He loves cucumber sticks and cherry tomatoes and he has been having apples, satsumas and grapes as well. All I need to do is get protein into him. He cannot do an afternoon of learning on grapes alone.
This shirt is in the latest crack of fashion (or if not latest then more recent than I have caught up with) and has blue stripes and pretty blue flowers on it. I looked at it extremely doubtfully. DH was not impressed. DF liked it, but he enjoyed fashion during the 1970s and the shirt fits right in there. Bear decided that this shirt could go to school and be cut up. I will get it washed and ironed for Monday. I shall also wash out the crisp packets.
I am going to get a supermarket delivery and I am not happy. It is bear's lunches that have broken it. I am beyond my wit's end with them. He is refusing sandwiches and all my attempts to add protein. I wish he would eat cheese, but if he doesn't like it then he doesn't like it. I am going to be doing some research.
He is not eating much at all anyway, so I may be able to swing back to sandwiches later. Until then I have caved enough to get some packets of ready to eat chicken (which hurt) and I will also pick up some drumsticks to make for him to have with the goodies in his box. He loves cucumber sticks and cherry tomatoes and he has been having apples, satsumas and grapes as well. All I need to do is get protein into him. He cannot do an afternoon of learning on grapes alone.
Interestingly, while I was looking for a good image from stockfreeimages.com I found some inspiration. Home made pizza here I come! Just don't tell bear it has cheese in it.
Friday, 17 May 2013
It's for research - honest!
As someone who wants to be a writer I do have a habit of looking at things that no respectable person should even consider.
Yesterday bear's daily melt down was because he doesn't want to go to the school disco. He doesn't want to, it isn't fair, he doesn't know how to dance, it isn't fair and none of his friends are going (and it isn't fair). I tried to talk about dancing, jigged around a bit to the music that goes with the times tables song we found on you tube and generally tried to be optimistic. I even looked at 'how to dance' videos on you tube.
All I can say about the how to dance videos that I found is that discos must be a very different place to when I was young. Also they must be extremely different from when I last went into one in 2005 (works do). Also they must be extremely different to any I have ever heard about. Mind you, there was no alcohol involved which may explain a lot.
While I was on you tube I found a video showing how to fold a t-shirt in two seconds. I quite enjoyed watching it with bear and I had a go while bear supervised. I shall be doing this each time I iron t-shirts now, although my t-shirts will probably not have seams straight as they are not expensive at all. I may put in 'how to' in you tube and see what comes up.
Of course one of the things that I saw on you tube was 'how to pick a lock'. As an aspiring write I had to look at this, who knows when it will be useful to describe. It was a yale lock, and I know enough to say it was a five lever action. However what with how to make a Mickey Finn (research for 'The Forgotten Village') and slow match ('Digging up the Past', out soon I hope, and you wouldn't believe what you can get on ebay) and now how to pick a lock (not yet part of a story but who knows) all I can say is that I hope no-one needs to check my browsing history.
I checked in the playground this morning. Two of bear's closest friends are going to the disco. This is not making him happier.
Yesterday bear's daily melt down was because he doesn't want to go to the school disco. He doesn't want to, it isn't fair, he doesn't know how to dance, it isn't fair and none of his friends are going (and it isn't fair). I tried to talk about dancing, jigged around a bit to the music that goes with the times tables song we found on you tube and generally tried to be optimistic. I even looked at 'how to dance' videos on you tube.
All I can say about the how to dance videos that I found is that discos must be a very different place to when I was young. Also they must be extremely different from when I last went into one in 2005 (works do). Also they must be extremely different to any I have ever heard about. Mind you, there was no alcohol involved which may explain a lot.
While I was on you tube I found a video showing how to fold a t-shirt in two seconds. I quite enjoyed watching it with bear and I had a go while bear supervised. I shall be doing this each time I iron t-shirts now, although my t-shirts will probably not have seams straight as they are not expensive at all. I may put in 'how to' in you tube and see what comes up.
Of course one of the things that I saw on you tube was 'how to pick a lock'. As an aspiring write I had to look at this, who knows when it will be useful to describe. It was a yale lock, and I know enough to say it was a five lever action. However what with how to make a Mickey Finn (research for 'The Forgotten Village') and slow match ('Digging up the Past', out soon I hope, and you wouldn't believe what you can get on ebay) and now how to pick a lock (not yet part of a story but who knows) all I can say is that I hope no-one needs to check my browsing history.
I checked in the playground this morning. Two of bear's closest friends are going to the disco. This is not making him happier.
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Quiet Day
I am having a quiet day. I walked to Makro for bread and milk and it was nearly an hour all told. The walk was brisker at the start than the finish, but it was something. I have spent a lot of the day taking commas out of Digging up the Past. That is a job of work in itself as I suffer very badly from excess commas.
Someone is spreading out tarmac in the street. As the road looks like something out of a historical drama and the potholes are more like swimming pools in some places I am not asking too many questions about where the tarmac came from or exactly who they are. They are tamping it down nicely as well. This is going well with the late eighties music coming at full volume from the house behind and will soon be mixing with bear's piano practice. So while it is technically a quiet day with just stuff like washing and dishwasher and so on it is still remarkably noisy.
The Chilli vacuum cleaner is not playing nicely either. I think I need to wash the filter after use. Still the stairs and the easy bits of the living room and study are less dusty so that is something. I keep yearning after a dyson but I think I will have to wait for that.
I am waiting to see what bear will say about his lunch. He has been grumbling about his sandwiches for a while. He wants to go back to the wraps and lunchables that he had when I was poorly and I am not willing. Negotiations are ongoing but as he has complained about chicken and ham he got fish paste today. At least he is back on a proper breakfast.
And now I have washing on the line it has started to rain - have to go!
Someone is spreading out tarmac in the street. As the road looks like something out of a historical drama and the potholes are more like swimming pools in some places I am not asking too many questions about where the tarmac came from or exactly who they are. They are tamping it down nicely as well. This is going well with the late eighties music coming at full volume from the house behind and will soon be mixing with bear's piano practice. So while it is technically a quiet day with just stuff like washing and dishwasher and so on it is still remarkably noisy.
The Chilli vacuum cleaner is not playing nicely either. I think I need to wash the filter after use. Still the stairs and the easy bits of the living room and study are less dusty so that is something. I keep yearning after a dyson but I think I will have to wait for that.
I am waiting to see what bear will say about his lunch. He has been grumbling about his sandwiches for a while. He wants to go back to the wraps and lunchables that he had when I was poorly and I am not willing. Negotiations are ongoing but as he has complained about chicken and ham he got fish paste today. At least he is back on a proper breakfast.
And now I have washing on the line it has started to rain - have to go!
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
School asks nicely
Bear brought home his homework book today and in it was a note saying that for science week they need to take in empty crisp packets (bear was very clear about type) and old or unwanted clothes. It seems that the crisp packets will be shrunk in an oven and the clothes may be cut up.
The crisp packets I can live with, but I am not impressed by the clothes request. I have no idea whether the clothes should be adult, child, complex, simple, with or without trimmings and haberdashery or what. I know I over think things and that the school was being vague to make it easier for families but every garment in this house is spoken for. There are clothes to be donated. There are clothes to be sold. There are clothes that are fine, thank you, and we would like to keep them. DF is scouring the house anyway for clothes for the nearly new stall and we are not so extravagant that there are just random garments lying around. It is only three weeks since the Martial Arts fundraiser which wanted clothes (I forgot about it, which is normal for me at the moment).
Bear's hoarding tendencies will not be helped either if he is asked to cut up any of his own clothes as they will immediately be his favourite, the most favourite garment ever and he will be utterly devastated. No teacher deserves that.
I was grumbling about this to Tom Marlowe. He is in a dark, gothic mood at the moment (check out his blog here) and he suggested sending in a shroud with soil around the edges.
I really miss evil cat. Not only in general, but sometimes she made the most sense.
The crisp packets I can live with, but I am not impressed by the clothes request. I have no idea whether the clothes should be adult, child, complex, simple, with or without trimmings and haberdashery or what. I know I over think things and that the school was being vague to make it easier for families but every garment in this house is spoken for. There are clothes to be donated. There are clothes to be sold. There are clothes that are fine, thank you, and we would like to keep them. DF is scouring the house anyway for clothes for the nearly new stall and we are not so extravagant that there are just random garments lying around. It is only three weeks since the Martial Arts fundraiser which wanted clothes (I forgot about it, which is normal for me at the moment).
Bear's hoarding tendencies will not be helped either if he is asked to cut up any of his own clothes as they will immediately be his favourite, the most favourite garment ever and he will be utterly devastated. No teacher deserves that.
I was grumbling about this to Tom Marlowe. He is in a dark, gothic mood at the moment (check out his blog here) and he suggested sending in a shroud with soil around the edges.
I really miss evil cat. Not only in general, but sometimes she made the most sense.
Father and Handbags
I was going to post a picture of all the handbags, but half of them have been whipped away. DF will be taking some to the nearly new sale, one to a little girl and some to his lady friend(s). I am still left with half a dozen lovely handbags and purses that will do me for years and I shall be very happy with. The handbags are all in lovely condition and the parcel was well wrapped.
I really should go and do something useful now. I have washing in, dishwasher on, meal for tonight planned, windows opened, changed DH's bed, noticed that the mattress that will be my bed is now moldy and more or less recovered from getting bear to school. Time to get a bit further on.
I really should go and do something useful now. I have washing in, dishwasher on, meal for tonight planned, windows opened, changed DH's bed, noticed that the mattress that will be my bed is now moldy and more or less recovered from getting bear to school. Time to get a bit further on.
generic picture of handbag from stockfreeimages.com as most of mine have been nabbed
Wild Garlic
Found my camera! I thought I would take some pictures of the banks of the beck a few hundred yards or less from our home.
As a poor picture taker on a wet and overcast morning, these aren't too bad and you can see the drifts of wild garlic that are covering the banks. There are a lot more plants upstream.
This is the north facing bank with all the buds ready to burst.
They are very pretty but it does have a certain 'back of a kebab shop at closing' scent about it.
The beck is quite full from rain. I'm just grateful it isn't snow. I am an official bad mother as bear was the only child in the class not wearing a jumper. As he had a vest on under his shirt and I normally can't keep anything on him I am not too worried. The school is normally quite warm anyway. I'd have a jumper ready for him when I pick him up but bear will take off his jacket and jumper to walk home when there is still snow on the ground so I think I will save my effort.
This is the north facing bank with all the buds ready to burst.
They are very pretty but it does have a certain 'back of a kebab shop at closing' scent about it.
The beck is quite full from rain. I'm just grateful it isn't snow. I am an official bad mother as bear was the only child in the class not wearing a jumper. As he had a vest on under his shirt and I normally can't keep anything on him I am not too worried. The school is normally quite warm anyway. I'd have a jumper ready for him when I pick him up but bear will take off his jacket and jumper to walk home when there is still snow on the ground so I think I will save my effort.
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