Tuesday 26th Mar

Quiet morning at the library, having left one teenager at home in his pyjamas watching cricket and one asleep in bed. When I went for my break to get a cup of tea today, I had a look at what was to eat. The librarians had four different offerings all of which were chocolate based. I don’t like to link the chocolate bias to the fact that the majority of the librarians are women, but it’s hard not to.

Got home to wait for the delivery of the new 3-piece-suite, and not long after I got a phone call from the delivery men telling me they were outside, and that I hadn’t been answering the door! So it appears the door bell is broken, hmmm, that’s another thing to consider fixing. As a stop gap I put a note on the door saying it’s broken, for which both kids mock me for my poor writing skills! The guys put the new suite in and move the old one out to the garage for me. I’m getting it collected by a charity later in the week, and it saves me and the youngest moving it. Which would have involved him getting dressed in the middle of the afternoon!

Drill some small holes in the outside wall to fix the first grille to cover the big holes I drilled last week, and only need to redo one, which is quite successful for me. Then I’m on to ironing and making the tea.

After tea the eldest takes me out to practice her driving before it goes dark; a reasonably successful outing as I wasn’t that scared at any point, she did a couple of 3 point turns for the first time, and there were no stalls. So the driving is coming along well, something of a mixed blessing with the cost of teenage car insurance looming on the horizon.

Yours counting the pennies

Jay