Thursday 30 May 2013

Thursday30th May

A leisurely lie in this morning as Mrs P has a couple of days off this week. So it’s bacon sandwiches and tea all round. Then Mrs P joins me in my weekly house cleaning session, though to be fair she takes the lead and I follow. This means the cleaning is done in double quick time. At this point the youngest is revising for next week’s exams and the eldest has just crawled out of bed to watch TV in her pyjamas, whilst eating the breakfast that has been made for her.

Mrs P and I then embark on the continuing quest that is a search for a new lounge carpet. Bearing in mind I finished decorating the room in March we really aren’t doing very well. Once again we return home with four different samples from the carpet shops, and once again when we put them down at home they look different to how they did in the shop, and how I’d imagined they might at home. We’ve gone from one colour to another to neutral and now I think we might go back to where we started. Another option is of course to redecorate the room, so we can get a carpet to match!

After lunch the youngest and I get the train to watch Lancashire playing county cricket. It’s not quite a blistering Summer’s day, in fact the start was delayed because of rain, but they’re well underway after lunch. We pass a pleasant afternoon watching the game and discussing the prospects for the season with our neighbours. As the cost to watch live sport goes in this country, county cricket is pretty competitive (though still not cheap), and a good crowd is well entertained.

Once home I get to go in the loft to find a cable for the youngests old xbox, to replace the one that broke this morning in his current xbox, the upshot of which is it won’t work and a major part of his social life could be in freefall. I find the old box but its empty, making me wonder f I’ve thrown the old xbox out, after all it was broken. However I persist under much encouragement from the youngest and eventually find the broken console in an old TV box, with the required cable. It just goes to show the benefit of not rushing to throw things out, even when they’re broken.

Yours saving the day.

Jay

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