This morning was Joy's end of term party, and performance of drama and music. Joy stepped in as a zebra in "I am a lion", which the children wrote and performed themselves. There was food and chatting, and not nearly enough tea. I was given my gardening wages, which I have not yet looked at; past caring. It's the end of another era: no more Montessori school and gardening.
Not long after we got in Martin called in with Jago, which was a pleasant surprise. We haven't seen Martin for a while: fresh back from Glasto, with his very cool "crew" t-shirt on.
We had a triple dose of Jago (Meg's other brother, same age as Freddie), as he was at the Montessori with his mum, and later on Martin looked after my three while I did Tai chi with Tom. I met them at the Trades club, but Freddie wouldn't stay in there, so I had to take him to tai chi, where he whined a bit and eventually got into doing a bit of form, and high kicks, then decided it was time to go to Martin's house, phew.
Joy went to horseriding before we went down to Hebden. There had been talk, and texts, of a BBQ at Callis, but it really didn't stop raining long enough, and by the time I heard from Milly, during a brief semi-dry spell, I had already organised to go to tai chi. No Dave at Tai chi, he was in manchester. It was just me and Tom, and we did nearly as much chatting as tai chi, but it was good, anyway, I've nearly cracked the sword form now, I think, I'll be able to practice on my own, good. (maybe Dave will become obsolete then?). I know I should really be concentrating on myself, on my health, on my children and where I am going to live.
Anyway, I've got a sort of blindish sort of date with John One tomorrow night, which might take my mind off things. I was feeling very fed up with everything this morning when I found out that Brendan had gone away to Portugal with his new girlfriend. Not that I am jealous or anything. We went there when I first met him. No, I was fed up at being left with the children and no space for myself, which I seem to need a lot of at the moment. I'm still trying to recover and have taken another dose of the remedy, as instucted if I hadn't improved within two days. Well. I don't seem to be doing too badly as Martin was very happy to look after them for a couple of hours this evening and Meg is babysitting tomorrow evening. I just feel quite pathetic and lost at times, it all being too much for me. I'm sure things will get better. I suppose it could've been worse, being Friday 13th.
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I have had an idea. You know the area you want to live in so, as the country is gonna be deluged take the safe option , load the car with children and camera('s) and motor around have the children take turns at taking pics of any house thats for sale that takes anyones fancy (you only need to be able to recognise the board so quality not a prob) if Joy wants a major role she could place dots on a street map then once home you all can find the properties and 'nit pic' them . Just an idea.
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