really must carry my camera in the car!
We were out in the car this afternoon and saw a buzzard being mobbed by a couple of blackbirds, it had a couple of half hearted swoops then settled down on top of a street lamp to look all indignant 
and it did really look indignant and I can’t prove it becuase my camera was at home. Ah well.
Today is the start of a stupidly busy week for all of us. Well, to be fair, it started yesterday with me at Oulton and Duke attackign the garden and it looks much better (apart from the part where he has piled up all the stray outdoor toyes etc on the patio so I can’t put the hammock out 
) He got a petrol strimmer off Freecycle, billed as "will start but not keep running, free to anyone who thinks they can fix it" and he did by (drum roll please….) turning the petrol tap to the "ON" postition….. 
It’s very good at decimating all kinds of greenery!
Tomorrow Aprilia is at the dentist for a filling in a baby tooth then we are all off to class for the second week of yet another compulsary course at Red cross. Its beginning to wear decidedly thin all this compulsary course business. Normally either Duke or I go to class so then Aprilia gets to bed at a reasonable time but all these courses that we just *have* to pass means she has to come with us every week. They go on late and for the most part send the adults into a terminal decline let alone a 6 year old. To be fair though, this is all the practical bits of a 4 week course, the theory for which we rattled through in 1 evening last week. So we won’t get sent to the head master’s office for being absent the week after
Tuesday morning I have to drop her off at my mum and dad’s at 8am (oh boy, that is not going to be funny!) She’s with them for 2 days whilst Duke and I do the Cheshire Show. Typically last Wednesday Dad got the phonecall from the hospital to say he had to go in this Wednesday for his pre-op consultation with mum so instead of playing with Grampa all day Wednesday she’s going to be in a hospital waiting room. I offered to not do the show but Dad said it wasn’t right for me to drop out at this late stage which I thought was very decent of him.
So that brings us to Thursday. Other than swimming in the afternoon I plan on doing NOTHING! Other than maybe a bit of baking, oh and getting up to date with the washing. Friday PM I am on nights, Saturday daytime I am doing 1st Aid cover and face painting at the church fete (or is that fate, hmmm), Saturday night I’m back on nights whilst Duke gets the fun of packing the car on his own (what is it they say about vengance is mine???) and then 7am Sunday morning I will fall into the car and allow my chaufeur to whisk me off to camp! Which reminds me, I’d better start thinking about checking equipement, checking what I need to bring, counting up socks for people, finishing off any that I need to, working out how much to charge for socks, making up pancake mix (so therefore need to go to Tesco for dry eggs) Oh blimey! If you odn’t hear from me don’t panic, I’ve just collapsed in a dithering heap somewhere.
