Rats with wings, folks; rats with wings.

( TLDR: chicken poop, more chicken poop, we got to play in the back of an ambulance, frustration with lackadaisical younger staff )

Back at work! Stuck in a small room with 30 chaotic perpetual motion innovation machines, snotty and cold-ridden and going nuts 'cos it's too cold to go out, chucking toys and shoving Lego "lightsavers" up each other's noses and ALL TURNED UP TO ELEVEN and oh Christ I've missed it :) Utterly knackered, but in *such* a good way. Exactly what I ( Read more... )

Lovely weekend. Yesterday: lunch with hubby at nursery, bought plants, went to another nursery, bought plants, spent what was left of afternoon putting in tubestock (some from last weekend). Decided today was for the decorative planting - floral stuff. However ( Read more... )

Big Love s5 as bad as, if not worse than, s4. Tedious and soapie; I think we hit the shark roundabout 4.1 ( Read more... )

I worked today - too many staff away on holidays - skeleton staff, no joking. Rooms almost empty of kids, thank goodness, but even so the boss had to put in floor time to cover relief etc ( Read more... )

Arthritis sucks.

Flat tyre from 1" hawthorn cutting thorns sucks.

Hospital idea of communication sucks.

Mum got to pre-r/t appointment and told they thought she should have chemo. Direct opposite of what she's been told up to this point. She's chosen not to. R/T delayed again, starts tomorrow. We hope ( Read more... )

Guess who didn't show up today, and claimed to be so sick she won't be able to make it tomorrow either? (She's so stressed and tired from the Validation, of course, and OMG having to work ALL THAT EXTRA TIME OMG (poor thing, she turned up three whole days this week shock horror, which makes what, five and a bit workdays out of the last ten she was ( Read more... )

Remember my little fella who wasn't drawing recognisable anything before Christmas who suddenly started doing basic faces? He's on self-portraits in mixed media now...


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Went fine. General info, only nice/positive parents showed up, and for the first time that I can remember they actually included parents of Problem Kids (the standing joke is that the ones who need to be there never are). So. Nervous as hell all day but the one lady I was worried about didn't come (One Of Those Mums, to use the industry term) so ( Read more... )

Got flu. Very glad week is over ( Read more... )