T-Bird Anni Rides Again

Aprilia was with mum and dad today but due to dad not being allowed to drive for another few weeks I needed to drop her off - Mum won’t come to my house, it’s too dirty aparently.  So, got home again and started on the books with occaisional jaunts into housework for light relief (never thought I’d say that!)  The phone rang, then there was someone at the door, then there was some other distraction yada yada yada.  ho hum.  I did manage to do a mind map on paper for a specimen exam question, took me 15 minutes to put together from memory and that’s about what I recon I have time-wise for the planning stage of each question It’s a 3 hour 45 minute paper, 3 questions so up to 5 minutes to pick which one I’ll do for each section (choice of 3 per section), 15 minutes to mind map it then 45 minutes to write it up plus some "give" for checking over etc at the end.  I remember being told at school to spend no more than 45 mins on each essay for a-levels as that’s the time frame you get the most marks in, after that you are liable to lose the plot so it’s best to leave it and start the next answer on a fresh page to allow you to go back if you need to and have time.

Went back to get Aprilia and discovered that mum has been being rather insensitive yet again   Seems she decided to measure Aprilia very publicly at the hairdressers then declare to all and sundry that she is fat.  Now, I have to say, she’s not thin, she has a belly on her, it comes, she grows, it goes (well, not totally but a lot of it goes)  She’s not as fit as she has been, mainly becuase we’ve not been in the forrest much - vast areas of it were declared unsafe with the rain and flooding - but she’s comfortable in clothes for her height (not her age!)  She is also, for all her outward bluster adn aparent self confidence, a bit of a sensitive soul.  She is utterly distraught by mum’s public humiliation of her and I can’t really say I blame her.  But the punchline of all this?  They wen’t from the hairdressers to the charity shop and then next door to the……. bakery

anyone who is going Off the Path in a couple of weeks and has a girl with an age 6-7 bottom?  I have cleared out her undies drawer adn have a bagful of slightly too small for my slightly too curvey girlie.  Obviously I can’t freecycle girl’s undies - it’s not like I’m offering a bag of girls clothing that just happens to have a few pairs of undies in, it’s  just undies -  but I’m happy to pass them on to anyone I actually know!  They are all washed (but in bio powder so if you have a sensitive soul they may need another wash in whatever you use) and all look to be in reasonable condition.  They mainly have princesses on the fronts and would you be surprised if I said they were mainly pink?

I replaced her entire stock the other day and she’s very excited to have "bigger girl knickers" which are the shorts style that’s suddenly popular (in ASDA anyway, don’t know if it’s all shops!) and are, aparently, much softer on her legs - maybe now she’ll stop giggling at me wearing the same sort of style….