Just Jo!

Yay!! I was banished to my room for hours this morning!!
Olivia was making stuff downstairs, I had to stay in my room. I was supplied with a cup of tea, marmalade on toast, a cup of tea, baked beans on toast, a cup of tea….
I was finally allowed out about half past one, by which time I’d read most of one of the library books, had a snooze and was desperate for a wee!
Olivia very proudly gave me my Mother’s Day card, “But I haven’t written on it, because it’s an interactive card!”
“Huh?”
“Look!!”
I got a collage picture and a treasure box. The treasure box, which she made out of an old tomato carton, had lots of ‘gold’ coins in it. Some of the coins had words on the back, so the interactive bit was me looking through all the coins to find out what she’d written. Just wish the coins were real gold!

Then she spent what was left of the afternoon making more coins out of different gold (and silver) and writing more sentences on the backs. And making up more ‘games’ for the interactive card. The best Mother’s Day pressie was that I came down to everything tidied away after she’d made the card. But then got it all out again to carry on making stuff.
The plans for getting stuck into the garden were abanoned when I saw raindrops on the window. And it’s cold. No! The heating is not going back on! Except when I’m having a bath, ‘cos then I can stay in longer and not freeze.
Adam came home from work with a weatherbeaten bunch of flowers. He apologised for their tatty state, but it was only the paper and the flowers were fine. He also apologised for not getting white tulips, ‘cos they’re my mostest favouritest flowers of all, in the whole wide world. “See? I remembered?!”
“Yes dear. Thank you dear.”

They’re lovely!
He’s also promised me a bottle of wine and some Lush supplies when he gets paid at the end of the month!! I have witnesses!!
Dinner for two of us was left over Irish stew, and for one of us was cottage pie from the freezer. Pudding for all three of us was fruit strudel. Adam even made the ultimate sacrifice and missed Crap Top Gear tonight, just so we could all have a game of Uno Extreme. First choice was poker, but I have no brain cells tonight, so that was a no go.
I lost.
Two quick chats with my mum, the first one she phoned me just as we were about to start eating. The second time I phoned her, just as they were about to eat.

And a quickie that made me giggle….

Flight Chatter
A stranger was seated next to a little girl on the aeroplane when the stranger turned to her and said, “Let’s talk. I’ve heard that flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.”

The little girl, who had just opened her book, closed it slowly and said to the stranger, “What would you like to talk about?”

“Oh, I don’t know”, said the stranger. “How about nuclear power?”

“OK,” she said. “That could be an interesting topic. But let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow and a deer all eat grass, the same stuff. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, and a horse produces clumps of dried grass. Why do you suppose that is?”

The stranger thinks about it and says, “Hmmm, I have no idea.”

“Do you feel qualified to discuss nuclear power when you don’t know s**t?”

Hee hee!!
I’m off for my Lush. And yes, I have turned the heating on again. Olivia just came downstairs, “Thanks for turning the heat on!!”
“It’s only so I can stay in the bath longer.”
“Pleeeease Mum!! Keep it on!!”
“Only ’til I get out of the bath.”
Hope you’ve all had a lovely day. I only stirred to put the heating on. So I can stay in the bath longer!