Not bad after all
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ailbheIn the end, what we did today was...
A little laundry and housework, and then we went out. First we tried to return a pair of fairy wings, but since their owner wasn't in, we pulled the household's empty recycling bin off the footpath and tucked the wings behind it, all nicely out of sight from the road behind the front wall. Then we went to a huge cut-price Stuff Shop, called Buyology, where we bought all sorts of gifts - I think, but am no longer sure, that we got presents for all the cousins whose birthdays we have missed this year, plus all the July birthdays except Astrid's, and various art materials and household things for ourselves.
After that we popped into a bike shop to enquire about balance bikes, and then to Altimus, where they remarked on how tired I look today, which isn't that surprising, but I'm better than I have been for a few days... and I got a 100 litre backpack and took it and the children to McDonalds, where I ate food that wasn't actually sickening, because they have a wrap thing which isn't totally awful in every way. The coffee is still horrific though.
Then we went to WHS and I got some paint, and a sales rep for Daler Rowney tried to get me to buy their stuff instead of Winsor and Newton, and I didn't want to. But I was delighted to get a calligraphy set and I am looking forward to using it.
If you want me to scribble up a pome for you on A4 or A3 and send it to you in the post, with coloured ink calligraphy and watercolour trimmings, speak now or forever hold your peace. I want to send off a few practice ones before I start doing them seriously.
I also got more pallette knives, because the latest painting is a bit serious.
The canvas I got for a fiver when Linnea was a toddler, which we painted together with friends for days...
Then I painted over it in white acrylic from a ONE LITREbottlebucket...
This is me painting with a pallette knife for the first time...
And this is where I stopped. You might like to check the times on the clock in these photos:
In WHS I also bought some half-price homework helper things which might indicate what Key Stage metrics the children are at if I have a look through them.
It was a massively consumerist day. Tomorrow Emer and I are going to the Farmer's Market before swimming too, so moar shopping. And then I buy MOUNTAINS of groceries so that Rob can cook TONS for the freezer because he's off to the US for a week soon and it helps a lot if I have a freezerful of ready meals.
A little laundry and housework, and then we went out. First we tried to return a pair of fairy wings, but since their owner wasn't in, we pulled the household's empty recycling bin off the footpath and tucked the wings behind it, all nicely out of sight from the road behind the front wall. Then we went to a huge cut-price Stuff Shop, called Buyology, where we bought all sorts of gifts - I think, but am no longer sure, that we got presents for all the cousins whose birthdays we have missed this year, plus all the July birthdays except Astrid's, and various art materials and household things for ourselves.
After that we popped into a bike shop to enquire about balance bikes, and then to Altimus, where they remarked on how tired I look today, which isn't that surprising, but I'm better than I have been for a few days... and I got a 100 litre backpack and took it and the children to McDonalds, where I ate food that wasn't actually sickening, because they have a wrap thing which isn't totally awful in every way. The coffee is still horrific though.
Then we went to WHS and I got some paint, and a sales rep for Daler Rowney tried to get me to buy their stuff instead of Winsor and Newton, and I didn't want to. But I was delighted to get a calligraphy set and I am looking forward to using it.
If you want me to scribble up a pome for you on A4 or A3 and send it to you in the post, with coloured ink calligraphy and watercolour trimmings, speak now or forever hold your peace. I want to send off a few practice ones before I start doing them seriously.
I also got more pallette knives, because the latest painting is a bit serious.
The canvas I got for a fiver when Linnea was a toddler, which we painted together with friends for days...
Then I painted over it in white acrylic from a ONE LITRE
This is me painting with a pallette knife for the first time...
And this is where I stopped. You might like to check the times on the clock in these photos:
In WHS I also bought some half-price homework helper things which might indicate what Key Stage metrics the children are at if I have a look through them.
It was a massively consumerist day. Tomorrow Emer and I are going to the Farmer's Market before swimming too, so moar shopping. And then I buy MOUNTAINS of groceries so that Rob can cook TONS for the freezer because he's off to the US for a week soon and it helps a lot if I have a freezerful of ready meals.
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Pome please!
Date: 2011-07-02 11:32 pm (UTC)I love them both so very much.
Re: Pome please!
Date: 2011-07-03 08:38 pm (UTC)Re: Pome please!
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Date: 2011-07-01 07:20 pm (UTC)I worked for Daler once - it was years ago (for all of three months and hated every minute) but I still see Windsor and Newton as The Enemy. It's engrained.
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