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I am still waiting to hear anything helpful about my visa application. I've heard nothing from the Australian consulate since their email telling me that something in my medical history required a referral to the Australian medical board, and I've still got a week to go before I can even pick up the phone and enquire about my Police Check.
I guess we're all doing lots of waiting: Patrick's waiting for his results, I'm waiting for my visa to come through, we're all waiting to exchange contracts on the sale of our house, Ella's waiting to start school... Aaargh!
As a distraction, though, we've got Phil and Indra and their boys (Sean, Liam and Aidan) coming to stay with us tomorrow and leaving on Sunday, which will be great. I've got to clean the house this evening, and tomorrow morning I've got to give Ella a bath and wash her hair (believe me, this is not a five-minute job. I have to get in the bath with her because her hair is so long!), do the supermarket shop, clean the fridge and visit the Bower Ashton library - before they all arrive.
Today I've been frantically finishing Dad's upholstery - I've been making two window cushions to go in his living room and they look good, if I say so myself. I went round there this afternoon and put them in place (dusting the window seats off before I put my beautiful cushions down!) while he was out and waited to see how long it would take him to notice! In fact, he noticed really quickly because his driving gloves had fallen on the floor in the hallway - although they'd already fallen off the bannister by the time I arrived so they weren't actually a sure-fire way of marking my visit...
When I got home I took Ella out again, up to the big John Lewis at Cribbs Causeway, where we bought her a replacement baby doll (another child seems to have taken the original one home from nursery and we can't find it...), and the material to make a doll's sheet/pillow/duvet set for Ella's dolls' bed. And then I spent the afternoon sewing pink sheets and rose-bud covered pillow cases and duvets! It was great fun - all stuff I would have loved as a child - and she was very happy. In case you're wondering about my largesse and what she'd done to deserve it, she has actually been very good today AND she was due a 'marble present' so my nostalgia and her sense of deserving a reward were both satisfied!
I guess we're all doing lots of waiting: Patrick's waiting for his results, I'm waiting for my visa to come through, we're all waiting to exchange contracts on the sale of our house, Ella's waiting to start school... Aaargh!
As a distraction, though, we've got Phil and Indra and their boys (Sean, Liam and Aidan) coming to stay with us tomorrow and leaving on Sunday, which will be great. I've got to clean the house this evening, and tomorrow morning I've got to give Ella a bath and wash her hair (believe me, this is not a five-minute job. I have to get in the bath with her because her hair is so long!), do the supermarket shop, clean the fridge and visit the Bower Ashton library - before they all arrive.
Today I've been frantically finishing Dad's upholstery - I've been making two window cushions to go in his living room and they look good, if I say so myself. I went round there this afternoon and put them in place (dusting the window seats off before I put my beautiful cushions down!) while he was out and waited to see how long it would take him to notice! In fact, he noticed really quickly because his driving gloves had fallen on the floor in the hallway - although they'd already fallen off the bannister by the time I arrived so they weren't actually a sure-fire way of marking my visit...
When I got home I took Ella out again, up to the big John Lewis at Cribbs Causeway, where we bought her a replacement baby doll (another child seems to have taken the original one home from nursery and we can't find it...), and the material to make a doll's sheet/pillow/duvet set for Ella's dolls' bed. And then I spent the afternoon sewing pink sheets and rose-bud covered pillow cases and duvets! It was great fun - all stuff I would have loved as a child - and she was very happy. In case you're wondering about my largesse and what she'd done to deserve it, she has actually been very good today AND she was due a 'marble present' so my nostalgia and her sense of deserving a reward were both satisfied!
posted by Sara Bowen at 8:18 pm
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