What a day!
Jun. 20th, 2006 04:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbheWe got home an hour ago.
9:45 Trike to swimming pool; Aquanatal swimming instructor is ill, so no class. Huh. I'm ill, do I get a day off? I didn't think so. However, they were giving we bumpy ones a free swim session instead, so I accepted that, put Linnea in the creche for 30 minutes, and went swimming.
10:30 Linnea joined me in the pool. Suddenly, she is afraid to swim off on her own without holding on to me. This has never happened before as far as I can remember. I have no idea what caused it. However, patience and singing ("Swimming like the fishes/octopus/dolphin, swimming like the fishes/octopus/dolphin, swimming like the fishes/octopus/dolphin, 1-2-3, swimming like the fishes/octopus/dolphin, swimming like the fishes/octopus/dolphin, swimming like the fishes/octopus/dolphin, swimming in the sea" - never say I'm not creative) got her kicking around the pool happily enough again, though nothing like as confidently as she was a week ago. It's incredibly weird.
11:30 we were out of the pool and eating from the snackbox, and I called Rob to see if he could give me directions to the park opposite his workplace. Er, no. He can't remember street names, nor describe landmarks, and he's not very reliable at left and right. Still, I got there in the end, alive in spite of negotiating several roundabouts on the trike, and we cycled off to Tescos.
Linnea had chips, and she and I both had smoothies, and Rob went home. Then I took Linnea around Tescos in a trolley; she doesn't often get to go to real supermarkets, because we don't often buy from them. I was pleased - Tescos had Dove's Farm "Tasty Bars", Oat Supreme oat-based cream-substitute, mad-craving tortilla chips, snap mesh tea balls, a sieve to replace the one I gave Linnea for her sandpit, the Cbeebies magazine with a game on the front, more tissues for my evil nose, a comb and a scrunchie, and Locket lozenges also for my evil nose.
Then we cycled home along the Thames, so we saw a squirrel, ducks, geese, goslings, swans, dogs, other people cycling, canal barges, big motor-yacht-things, bridges, nettles, trees, a working lock, and some stuff I forget.
And we've been home just over an hour, and I'm about to turn the TV on to CBeebies for the first time since Friday. I'm not doing too badly.
(I'm exhausted and sick and in pain, but Linnea's not watching too much telly. And tomorrow is Wednesday, with Tiggers Toddlers and later the Homestart volunteer, so quite restful in its own way).
(I need a Triking userpic).
9:45 Trike to swimming pool; Aquanatal swimming instructor is ill, so no class. Huh. I'm ill, do I get a day off? I didn't think so. However, they were giving we bumpy ones a free swim session instead, so I accepted that, put Linnea in the creche for 30 minutes, and went swimming.
10:30 Linnea joined me in the pool. Suddenly, she is afraid to swim off on her own without holding on to me. This has never happened before as far as I can remember. I have no idea what caused it. However, patience and singing ("Swimming like the fishes/octopus/dolphin, swimming like the fishes/octopus/dolphin, swimming like the fishes/octopus/dolphin, 1-2-3, swimming like the fishes/octopus/dolphin, swimming like the fishes/octopus/dolphin, swimming like the fishes/octopus/dolphin, swimming in the sea" - never say I'm not creative) got her kicking around the pool happily enough again, though nothing like as confidently as she was a week ago. It's incredibly weird.
11:30 we were out of the pool and eating from the snackbox, and I called Rob to see if he could give me directions to the park opposite his workplace. Er, no. He can't remember street names, nor describe landmarks, and he's not very reliable at left and right. Still, I got there in the end, alive in spite of negotiating several roundabouts on the trike, and we cycled off to Tescos.
Linnea had chips, and she and I both had smoothies, and Rob went home. Then I took Linnea around Tescos in a trolley; she doesn't often get to go to real supermarkets, because we don't often buy from them. I was pleased - Tescos had Dove's Farm "Tasty Bars", Oat Supreme oat-based cream-substitute, mad-craving tortilla chips, snap mesh tea balls, a sieve to replace the one I gave Linnea for her sandpit, the Cbeebies magazine with a game on the front, more tissues for my evil nose, a comb and a scrunchie, and Locket lozenges also for my evil nose.
Then we cycled home along the Thames, so we saw a squirrel, ducks, geese, goslings, swans, dogs, other people cycling, canal barges, big motor-yacht-things, bridges, nettles, trees, a working lock, and some stuff I forget.
And we've been home just over an hour, and I'm about to turn the TV on to CBeebies for the first time since Friday. I'm not doing too badly.
(I'm exhausted and sick and in pain, but Linnea's not watching too much telly. And tomorrow is Wednesday, with Tiggers Toddlers and later the Homestart volunteer, so quite restful in its own way).
(I need a Triking userpic).