Back to work, back to reality

[ailbhe]

We were up at 6 this morning, but we all felt reasonably well-rested so that's ok. Emer's just gone down for a nap so I have a chancec to update.

The morning went very well. I breakfasted moderately on pancakes and mandarin oranges. I think the great eatathon may be over. I got washed, dressed, washed the girls' faces, assembled and put on a load of laundry, and hung another load outside.

That meant going into the bakc garden.

The back garden is a disaster. Does anyone remember the storms, while I was away in Ireland? Two panels of our fence were torn down, the fenceposts and concrete bases uprooted, and the whole shebang spread over the garden. The garden shed looks a little lopsided, too. There's other debris scattered around. I was just about able to hang the laundry but there's no way Linnea coul safely go out there, let alone play.

So my new highest priority major task is to clear the garden. I can't lift the fence pieces, so Rob will have to do that, but I can work out where they're going and how. It's possible that we can break them up and send them to landfill. We have nowhere to store them while we work out more useful ways to use the waterlogged, fragile timber. If we are sending them to landfill it will probably take two weeks' worth of collections. Tomorrow's collection is recycling only, so landfill isn't until next week.

But the weather is glorious and I really could hang all my laundry outdoors if only I could get into the garden! As it is there's a load of sheets in the machine which will have to be hung indoors only because I can't reach enough of the washing line.

I've no help today. Tomorrow is fine. Friday is looking empty. Among other things, I have some Mother's Day gifts to buy; if anyone owes mothers this year it's us!

Comments

[buzzy-bee.livejournal.com]

Does your insurance cover your fence? Might be worth claiming as sounds like the materials would be more than your excess since you've lost the posts and all as well and you'd get the work done for you.

I was kind of hoping ours would go - we're about to replace it ;-) Only one panel did, though.

[heraldis.livejournal.com]

Do your council do a "bulky waste" collection where you phone them up and they come and collect?

[ljgeoff.livejournal.com]

How wonderful that you are feeling better!

I was thinking of you today. I was walking to class, trying to remember all of the stuff I needed to take care of: my classes and going to work, house work, Kyle's home-school stuff, if any of the boys had anything scheduled that I had to get them to (we have awful mass transit) and all of that kind of stuff. I looked around at the students, resentfully, I must say, thinking "oh, how easy it'd be just to have only myself to take care of!" None of my friends have children; no one really understands.

And then I thought of you. :)

[merryhouse.livejournal.com]

I do that a lot ;-)

Whenever I get resentful or annoyed I think of Ailbhe: at least I'm not... ill/ scarred/ lumbered with allergies /traumatised/ saddled with unhelpful mother-in-law [delete as appropriate]

[ailbhe]

What am I, some kind of middle-class-suburban starving-children-in-africa-would-love-a-nice-green-sprout-like-that?

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

Hang on -- the fence went down while you were away? And Rob has done nothing to clear it?? Hm. Hm!

[ailbhe]

Rob has pulled muscles coughing, as it happens; he spent much of my time away ill and being cared for by his mother, whom he phoned in desperation one morning. He did make time to come out and visit us and cook dinners for Mum to reheat, and also made dinners for us to reheat all this week.

So he gets away with it this time!