Day in the life

t-boo — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:00:31 +0000

Nikkichose the date this time around. So here is my Wednesday the 2nd of February.

5.30am Wake up as Iris is grumbling on the monitor. Go through to check and she has kicked off her duvet. Tuck her back in and slip back through to bed.

8.00am Alarm goes off and Angus goes off to make breakfast. I snooze a bit longer.

8.15am Breakfast. Cornflakes, toast, 2 cups of coffee.

8.50am Angus leaves for work. Iris and I start getting ready for a walk. We watch Show Me, Show Me on delay.

10am Bundled up we head out for a walk. Most Wednesdays we join a stroller group for an amble round the mark.

10.30am Arrive at the park. Realise my phone is at home so no piccies. Walk has taken longer than usual as Iris wanted to walk some of it. We get handed our crayons and paper and then we head off to try and spot the fairies that the walk leaders have hidden in the park. Iris screams her head off for the last five minutes of the walk. Fun times.

11.00am Kids are running about mental in the play area. I push Iris and chums on the roundabout, the swings, the roundabout again, have a bounce on the trampoline. Have a coffee and a blether. More swings.

11.45am Leave the park and walk down to the Main Street for a couple of things. The main street is really quite depressing as always.

12.50pm Arrive home. Get lunch made. Cheese toasties with a large dollop of pickle. Mug of tea.

1.30pm – 2.30pm Do some colouring in and make cakes with Iris.

2.35pm Head over the road to my friend Shona’s so Iris can play with Ben. Have a coffee and one of the cornflake cakes Iris and I made.

4.45pm During a conversation with Shona suddenly worry that I have filed my tax return incorrectly. Rush back home. Find I have done nothing of the sort. Feel a bit sick and foolish.

5pm (ish) Stick The Gruffalo on for Iris and go make a start on dinner

6pm Angus arrives home. We eat dinner together. Ravioli with roasted veg.

7pm -8pm The Witching Hour. Bathing Iris, reading stories, supper, putting Iris to bed.

8.30pm Decide we should try and sew the tape on the curtains we bought weeks ago. Sewing machine is not working so great. We suspect it is the thread pick up spring.

9.30pm Sewing is becoming too frustrating. The blame engine has been started, fingers are being pointed. We give up.

9.45 Watch an episode of The Corner. Have a mug of cocoa.

11pm (ish) Go to bed and read.

Midnight or thereabouts….lights out.

More supplies on sale

t-boo — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:00:34 +0000

I’ve added some new things to my etsy and folksy shops. All listings still only a pound.

A new chair

t-boo — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:42:24 +0000

Not long after Iris was born my granma gave me an old chair which she’d found in a charity shop and kept at her house for my nephew. He’s eight now and has outgrown the chair so she gave it to us. It looks like it may have been a college or school project – someone has written their name and the year (1974) underneath. It was a wee bit tatty but sturdy enough and the perfect size for a toddler. Last Summer I finally got around to fixing it up a bit. I sanded and painted and sanded and sanded and painted and then….nothing. This weekend we brought it back up from the cellar where it had been ‘drying’ for the past 7 months. We cut some foam to size to make it a bit more comfy and I raked through my suitcase of fabric for something appropriate.

Two hours of bickering with my husband later and it’s finished. It’s by no means perfect but Iris was very pleased when she saw it this morning and pronounced it a ‘very nice chair’

I hope whoever made it back in the 70′s got a good mark for it.