Tired lists
The round trip to Redditch was only an hour and twenty minutes each way so it wasn't hard, but my eyes are tired from driving in the sun. Ever since I had haemorrhages (almost ten years ago) my eyes have been very sensitive to bright light - I don't know why - which makes wearing sunglasses mandatory for driving except in low light, and tires me out. I had a nice lunch: J&Z only got back from Sydney last night and so I was delighted that they put in the effort to see me.
I came back via Cribbs Causeway and a visit to the big branch of John Lewis out there for various items: fuses for the light switches downstairs, underwear for Michael, PE kit for Ella, and a watch battery for me, but although I managed to get everything else, I couldn't sort out my watch...
Tasks for the next few days: putting up more ads in Trade It, Freecycle and some other magazines; cleaning up the rowing machine so that Claire can take it away tomorrow; Michael is going to clear out some of the stuff in the garage by taking things down to the tip before the car is valeted next week (!); I've got to start printing my edition for the Portfolio Exchange project before I start to dis-assemble some of my printmaking kit; and we've got to do a 'trial pack' of the things we want to airfreight over to Australia before I can get a quote on how many arms and legs it will cost us... Then a quiet dinner with Dad for company before another action-packed weekend.
This weekend Michael is off to a stag do in Bournemouth of all places! Which leaves me in the delicious position of having a very good friend of ours and her children to myself for the weekend and - even more delightful - Patrick is babysitting all three children on Saturday night, enabling me and Janie to go out for dinner without distractions - hooray! And on Sunday we're taking the kids off to Gifford's Circus near Cirencester as a treat, complete with picnic. I'm looking forward to that.
It's all a good way for me to forget to think about the fact that it's now LESS THAN 5 WEEKS until we depart these shores...
I came back via Cribbs Causeway and a visit to the big branch of John Lewis out there for various items: fuses for the light switches downstairs, underwear for Michael, PE kit for Ella, and a watch battery for me, but although I managed to get everything else, I couldn't sort out my watch...
Tasks for the next few days: putting up more ads in Trade It, Freecycle and some other magazines; cleaning up the rowing machine so that Claire can take it away tomorrow; Michael is going to clear out some of the stuff in the garage by taking things down to the tip before the car is valeted next week (!); I've got to start printing my edition for the Portfolio Exchange project before I start to dis-assemble some of my printmaking kit; and we've got to do a 'trial pack' of the things we want to airfreight over to Australia before I can get a quote on how many arms and legs it will cost us... Then a quiet dinner with Dad for company before another action-packed weekend.
This weekend Michael is off to a stag do in Bournemouth of all places! Which leaves me in the delicious position of having a very good friend of ours and her children to myself for the weekend and - even more delightful - Patrick is babysitting all three children on Saturday night, enabling me and Janie to go out for dinner without distractions - hooray! And on Sunday we're taking the kids off to Gifford's Circus near Cirencester as a treat, complete with picnic. I'm looking forward to that.
It's all a good way for me to forget to think about the fact that it's now LESS THAN 5 WEEKS until we depart these shores...
posted by Sara Bowen at 9:55 pm
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