Just Jo!

….I’m feeling very lethargic and aching and sleepy and all bunged up.
Could just be a lovely dose of hayfever, I always get it early, then it disappears, then comes back off and on throughout summer….
I don’t like feeling ill….but long lie-ins and extra long (and hotter) baths make me feel better.
Now I’ve got the added huge effort of trying to remember what we did yesterday.
I think Olivia did some kind of educational stuff….English, she reliably informs me. We went into town and took loads of photos of the new city centre development. We’re going to make them into a little book for my mum and stepdad, because Exeter has changed so much since they left.
We also got some more bits for the goodie box and photo album we’re I’m making. It’s covered in fabric, ribbons, buttons and some of the bradlet thingy’s from Eleanor’s box.
Olivia got some more books from Works, The Boy’s Book How To Be The Best At Everything (they do a Best Mum one too!) which was far cheaper than Smith’s, and Survival, a BBC accompaniment to the Walking With Beasts series.
When we got home, I settled down with the fabric glue. The second pot I bought yesterday, I might add, because someone (mentioning no names!) left the Smith’s bag somewhere in town….
Yes….so I glued, printed out the photos of town and Olivia did another load of Hama. Then the aforementioned extra long bath (Happy Hippy!) and bed.

Ooh! Forgot to say that on Sunday night we watched Persuasion, which was the first ‘proper’ telly we’ve watched in almost two months now.
I mentioned to some friends last Wednesday, that I really resent paying a full TV license for two hours of TV viewing in two months! Hmmm….if they’re so bloomin’ clever that they can find out who’s watching, they should be able to find out how much a person actually watches and adjust the fee accordingly. But seeing as it’s highly unlikely the powers that be will take my suggestion on board, I could just get Adam to pay the license, since he’s the one glued to his TV the second he walks in the door….yeah, I can see that going down a bundle….
On Saturday night we watched a DVD that we’d bought cheaply at the local shop. Whale Rider. It’s lovely! Bit tearjerking though. I did the blokey thing, “Cor, this hayfever’s really making my eyes water!” Fortunately, Olivia was so engrossed that she didn’t notice my sniffling.

Lazy laying in bed this morning. Di had phoned last night, she’s got raging toothache at the moment so asked if she could stay home please…. It also gave me the perfect excuse to gently suggest to Olivia that we not go to the community garden today, but tomorrow instead…. Which she was quite agreeable to….eventually….
I finished the photo album and the city centre photo book/album, Olivia has done some maths, read First News from cover to cover, and done most of the puzzles. She’s busy with the Hama again now, which means that at some point I will have to get the iron out today….in the next few days before the week is out. You can only have so much Hama lying about, ‘waiting’, before the inevitable accident…. “Ooops! I’m sorry!”
I read one of Olivia’s book day books, I Know What You Did Last Wednesday. Olivia has been begging me to read it and I really liked it!

That brings me up to round about now. It must be dinner time now….