just another morning here

• shopped for Russia (too much, the bank started worrying it was so out of the ordinary!)
• worried about the weather etc. in Russia
• stuck stickers on luggage labels for 104 people going to Russia
• delivered a car to Yorkshire (just me – fab to see the friends who were buying the car so that made the trip worthwhile )
• done an iMovie workshop at the Apple Store (the kids)
• worked as much if not more than usual, with the ordinary work plus getting the businesses set for being away for 10 days (Steve)
• been to Thruxton to watch my Dad’s 60th birthday present track day (me and the kids, Steve couldn’t afford the time )
  
• desperately wanted to be driven around the track by Tiff Needell because it looked like *so* much fun, but it was way too expensive. Settled for some photos instead (me and the kids!)
  
• woken up to a random cat in our room (not ours) which must have been in the house all night, since all the doors were locked. Haven’t found any evidence of where it was yet though, thank goodness!
• waded through huge piles of post-camping and pre-Russia washing/ironing (me with a bit of help from the kids)
• worried about the lack of school planning going on around here, tried to get my head round it a bit more and actually do some – failed again, there is so much to do I worked for a whole day with practically no stops, and have achieved approximately a tenth of what I need to do before the beginning of September. Doing a bit more this afternoon so hopefully will feel a bit better about it by teatime!
• been out for a meeting with the couple in charge of the Russia trip – as second in command I’m meant to know what’s going on! I do, honest. Well, slightly! Fairly concerned about the weather and dust/smog situation but other than adding it to our risk assessment and giving travellers appropriate warnings, we’re carrying on regardless.
• been for an appointment at the bank – school related – as we’re trying to set up an enterprise project with our senior students. Life skills are top of the list of things to learn so operating a bank account in conjunction with buying and selling things is a good idea.
• taken Josiah to the 2nd hand uniform shop at his school, to look for a blazer and tie. Got those, and a couple of shirts, but forgot to buy a jumper. Then again I could just save myself the aggro of having to track down his jumper every day by not buying him one in the first place! A blazer’s going to be bad enough to keep track of, never mind *2* possible garments to lose?!
• done all the usual music practices, cooking, tidying, cleaning etc. around the house – I’d like to suspend ‘house getting dirty’ in the same way that I can suspend Riverford boxes in the holidays, but it doesn’t work like that, in fact it’s worse with all of us around all the time!

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