Hectic Beginning to 2012 Sun, 15th Jan 2012

It’s been a whirlwind since the start of the year, Daddy Dave’s back slogging at work, the children are back at school, nursery, clubs and after-school things — which means organising the drop-offs and pick-ups, lunch-boxes, laundry, meals and whatnot.

The children have not really been very well.  Both of them have been vomiting.  DP has been running a temperature too.

Ikea is such a fuss, let me tell you.  We took a massive delivery and have been building stuff when we can.  Papa and Charlie helped by building a bookcase, and they got it wrong! O well!

The weather has been very strange, one day it can be freezing with ice, the next it is mild, and up at 8C with high winds.  We lost Freeview in four of the rooms, and it will be ages for Stan to work through his backlog before getting ours fixed.  We can do without it until then.  Unfortunately DP missed his breakfast watching TV in the kitchen, so we all have to suffer him watching DVD cartoons every morning!

The cold snap killed my car battery, so I had to organise a new one.  Thing is, the first few days of the nursery run was scuppered, and I had to rush along on foot, with DP on his bike!

We’re going to hang eight of the guitars on the wall, so I have ordered wall hangers (and loads of other bits and pieces).  This means I will have lots of trips to the sorting office to pick up parcels as the postie NEVER ever posts parcels the first time, they never ring the bell to attempt to deliver anything the first time. Grrrr.

On top of all that, we’ve got these gigs.  The first one went really well, and we got a bigger crowd of the second one (maybe another 150 or so), but Charlie switched the plan at the last minute, and the set list and all we’d practised mid-week was thrown out the window on a whim!

As a result, we busked and did our best, but Daddy Dave was really fed up about it — despite getting a load of compliments after.  Good feedback means nothing when you know it was not “happening”.  There are only two more and we’ll be free to get on, but what a start to the new year!