just another morning here

Well, every day is a denim day for me as I do tend to live in jeans, but the kids got to wear jeans to school today as a non-uniform/fundraiser day for diabetes, so they thought that was great fun

It has been an incredibly boring day in the office for me, I know I used to have difficult days when we were home educating but they were never this boring! I guess I answered the phone about 6 times, spoke to one existing customer, someone who wanted to sell us a car and various people trying to sell advertising of one sort or another. Attempted to chivvy accountants and bank people along but to no avail (nothing new there then!). Delivered a car. No real sales customers on site at all Friends popped in for coffee which was the highlight of the day but they only stayed 20 minutes or so!

Anyway, escaped to pick the children up; took Joe to his violin lesson, and now we’re home with a whole load of sorting out that none of us are motivated to do! Ah well, better get to it. It’s half term and we’re off to see friends and family for the week, which we are all really excited about! I may still be blogging but on the other hand I may not

I cycled to work today and now my legs ache. Must do it more often, as that’s utterly pathetic!

Did a full day’s work for once as Russ was on a day off There’s lots to do at the moment as we’re in the process of going limited, which will be good in the long run, but is an administrative nightmare at the moment!

We have an elderly gentleman who visits us in the office most days, just for a chat – don’t think he has many other people to talk to in his day. Steve helped him with something yesterday, so today he tried to pay Steve for it; Steve refused, at which point he offered the fiver to me ‘for the children’, so I accepted as it seemed rude not to. Bought them all an ice cream with it on the way home from school, and I quote Anna’s incredulous voice ‘you mean we can have whatever we want, not just a mini-milk?!’

Since we’ve been home they’ve played outside together, then they had baths and I chatted to them while they were getting clean. Filled pasta for tea, walnut & gorgonzola, because I’m sick of that line ‘I do like a bit of gorgonzola’ from Wallace & Gromit which Joe *keeps* repeating, didn’t think they’d like it, but they do!

Steve’s gone out to some ‘strictly men only’ boxing dinner with work (is that because women have some sense and wouldn’t want to go anyway? ) so the children and I are watching the Corpse Bride together. Loving it so far, I have to say!

Well, annoyingly, Steve fixed the bug that had been bugging me on the website. How is it that I can spend two WHOLE days staring at code then he comes along and fixes it instantly?!! Sooo annoying, that man!

Anyway, here it is: Water Lane Garage. There is still one tiny detail that I’m working on but otherwise I’m pretty happy with it. In due course we’ll add more articles and probably some photos too (still haven’t got our signs up at the actual site so we’re waiting for those). And I ought to put a Code Placidly hosting button on there somewhere too

In other news: Steve and I went to see Anna’s teacher today for another glowing report which again, I feel we actually can’t take that much credit for, as whatever Anna is/does is all herself and her own work. Still proud of her anyway.

Had a lovely conversation with the children yesterday which sprung from talking about school holidays and the differences in them across different areas of the country, to the ages at which people take exams. It seems as though Anna & Abbie at least are both thinking that they’ll stay at primary school but then be home educated again after that – I know it’s a long way off and plenty of things could change by then, but as a mid-long-term goal educationally it’s a plan I’d be really really happy with.

Nice to have Russ back at work, we missed him, as we had to do some work for once. We’ll be back to slacking now

As I write, Steve is out with Anna & Joe at Stage by Stage and violin respectively. Abbie and I are sitting here writing together which is nice – I’m blogging and she’s finishing a story based on Mrs Armitage on Wheels, her own take on it. Just nice to be doing stuff alongside one another.

Looking forward to the end of term, the children have a non-uniform day tomorrow and then the end of term on Friday so hurrah for the holidays

11am ish
I am so rubbish at the hard sell! Had some customers in a moment ago who really shouldn’t have left the office without giving me a deposit first, and I let them walk. Steve is going to kill me …

UPDATE at 1.30pm:
Yay yay yay! They came back and bought the car!!

This is more of an achievement than usual as Russ is away so I did it all by myself and still feel very pleased with myself on such occasions. The words ‘white’ and ‘flag’ don’t enter into it, of course