T-Bird Anni Rides Again

Both my car and our house ins come due in Feb for some reason (confusing since I got the car in March 2000 and we bought the house in June 2000 but there you go) and both the companies sent their quotes in with just a little increase over  last year.  So, me being me, I thought I’d just ahve a look see what was available.  And promptly saved very nearly £200 between the 2 policies.  That made me feel happy.  Having the money on hand to pay in one go and not have to pay an arm and a leg in monthly premiums makes me feel down right smug.  Now I just need to remember to set aside about £40 a month to be sure that we have money on hand this time next year to repeat the pleasure.  And as a side effect it made me feel much less guilty about how much I spent with Sonlight and LDA last week!

This morning was JJs which was a bit of a strain …. typically had we come home at 11 when she expired in a heap on my lap we would ahve been in for the delivery that arrived at 20 past but never mind, it will arrive tomorrow instead along with the Sonlight Box (which, acording to the FedEx site has now left Stanstead and is "in transit") making tomorrow a serious Box Day!  Obviously I’ve not tidied up ready for this momentous event but hey, I’m sure we’ll find homes for it somehwere (anyone want to rent me a bookself????)

this afternoon we did Garden Ed (yay!!!) and enjoyed the lack of rain and a bit of day-light for a few hours.  Then the cloud thickened up ominously and we whipped back inside just as the first plops of rain arrived.  One day my garden may dry out you know….. after that she helped get tea ready which was lovely, she’s getting pretty proficient with slicing and dicing these days. 

After the final installment of Summerfield (which made me cry and made Aprilia ask if she could go there when she was big) it was puzzles and reading which she romped through.  I do believe she may have had a small breakthrough there you know, not a huge momentous explosion into reading but a definite increase in confidence and ability.  Tis nice to see.  Really must find her reding ruler though, she kept missing lines out by accident and then wondering why the story didn’t make sense. 

We need to totally re-work Aprilia’s room.  She’s got too tall to sit up in her bed (it’s a loft bed and we ahve low ceilings!) so it is going to have to go.  Which means she will no longer have a desk under her bed, so she will need to take the desk out of the living room (YES!!!  YES!!!! AND AGAIN YES!!!!!!!) where it has resided since she ceased to ahve space for it in her room.  We will also need to invest in a wardrobe for her as we currently hang stuff on teh underside of her bed (damn!)  Ikea have some nice daybed frames which would look lovely in there and are quite cheap so taht’s an option.  Arogos have a cheap (and probably nasty) fabric covered kids hanging rail thing that she fancies which, if I could find the vouchers, we are halfway to affording and would fill the gap until it breaks and we can hopefully get something more grown up.  I also saw a thing with a load of pockets and mirror in to hang up in kid’s rooms on the Ikea site.  Trouble is Ikea costs me a fortune, i always find so much little stuff taht would be oh so useful…..  So I’ve asked on Freecycle for ANYTHING that would do the job and have everything crossed that I’ll get something we like.

Also today we had wide ranging discussions about the UK political system brought about by reading the first chapter of HP6.  So now she understands as much about government as I do.  Which isn’t a lot.

And I’m a bit insomnia-ish tonight.  Probably because I had the bed all to myself last night and thus had a wonderfully peaceful night’s sleep.  Duke fell asleep downstairs so I’d covered him over and he stayed down there!  Must go to bed though, otherwise we will be late for JJ (again)