just another morning here

Despite being up for a couple of hours in the middle of the night with a sick son (actually I must confess that Steve did all the dirty work with that) my first day at work was good, again, thanks for all the well-wishes Today I was working with a group of 5 – 7 yr olds with varying needs/abilities – only a couple of them with any verbal language so very interesting. Lots to learn but generally I think I’m going to enjoy it. Steve stayed home with Josiah, who seems fine now, thankfully.

After school Abbie went to a friend’s house for tea, while the rest of us did a mad dash on a couple of missions. Steve went off to do some work-related errands, while we went to pick up a bassoon form the county’s musical instrument hire service. A while back Anna decided that she wanted to learn yet another instrument. Steve and I tried to stall her for a while but then we discovered that you could hire a bassoon (her chosen instrument – because it is wind and therefore very different to her cello, but still in the bass clef) for £20 for the year. Bargain! The lady at the music hire service place spent twenty minutes or so showing us how to put it together and take care of it. Anna also found a friend at church who plays bassoon enough to help her out with the first few notes this evening (handily just round the corner from our second mission), and has lent her a book to start off with. We have also potentially found a proper teacher but we’re trying to encourage Anna to work at it herself for a while first – I might be earning now but still, the more she can do herself, the better.

We met up again for the second mission, which was to go and install broadband at my parents’ student house. Thankfully it was relatively simple, so didn’t take too long. It was late enough by the time we’d finished, though, for us to get fish & chips for tea! I’m roasting the chicken tonight anyway, otherwise the rest of the week’s menu will be out of synch. Chicken sandwiches are nice in any case

Abbie came home; Joe had a bath, Anna played the bassoon, the phone rang a few times, I played cards with the girls, we all chatted, and now we’ve slumped in front of the telly for the evening (watching 24 Series 3, only a few years behind the rest of the world). I think I am quite tired …

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