Short Changed
yesterday there was a sense of us all being short changed in the Riding household. Aprilia was with Lola for the day and was supposed to have gone to see Dave Benson Philips as it was on at the Civic and we cover that building for first aid (so Lola was to be on duty adn just happen to have Aprilia with her) She has been looking forward to it for months. There were under 100 tickets sold and the duty manager (not theone who usually does it and knows that for all the **** awful duties we cover we are allowed to indulge in enjoying some of the better ones) dismissed Lola saying that she was not needed thank you very much. So she got a McD instead which seemed to soften the blow.
Meanwhile I was with Duke in Wales covering a vintage car rally. We were told from the start that we were invited to dine with the competitors etc after the stage, I was also told on the phone the day before that there would be pasties etc provided for lunch (the stage went over lunchtime and finished at 3) Thankfully I NEVER believe anyone who says food is provided. Ever. Which was a good job as no pasties appeared and no passes for the function appeared (entry by pass only you understand - posh rally, posh everything) Passes did appear for the paramedic and his grandson though so nothing new there, the "professionals" who get paid ££££ get the free food, the idiots who are in the volentary services get lots of good healthy fresh air and a free teeshirt (same as last year’s free teeshirt) ParaPaul however, felt very embarrassed about the whole situation and bought us tea from the local bakery which was rather pleasant. I shall gloss over being verbally abused by several locals when asked not to walk up the middle of a live (if sedate) rally stage whilst cars were headed right at them.
However, all that said we did all have good days and Aprilia and I ended it curled up on the sofa watching grown up SpringWatch together until way past her bedtime. Lola reported that actually she can see a difference in Aprilia’s reading but really didn’t know how I kept up with her all day (which of course I don’t, that’s what TV and PC time is for isn’t it!) Duke reported that Aprilia has declared she needs to "get reading fast, I only have 2 week’s worth of fairy books for bedtime stories left" So I predict a sudden surge in reading effort some time in the next week 
Today the sun is shining (yipeee) and I am going to attempt to get every last scrap of washing dry outside (then add it to the mountain of clean but un-sorted washing!)
