Today the
weather is miserable. There’s no other way to describe it- it’s cold, dull and
raining steadily. It’s the sort of rain that just comes down straight and
determined, and normally lasts all day. If we didn’t need to get up for church,
I think I’d happily just curl up in bed with my book. It’s also the last day of
the half term holiday, and having spent most of the week still feeling a little
out of sorts I’m finally feeling more myself as I wake up and it feels like the
world outside should be celebrating with me- not trying to bring me down again.
The second
half of this week seems to have flown past. I was really hoping that I’d be
able to start getting on top of the housework once again; I had plans to help
the younger girls sort out their room, and make sure that all their homework
was done. Plus, of course, I had been hoping to have Little Dolly Clothes Shop
completely up to date by the end of the week. Ok, perhaps I was being a little
over ambitious, but I had hoped that at least some of these things would be
achieved by now.
Instead, I
spent most of the week still struggling to get up at a decent time, watched the
washing up piling up whilst I still didn’t have the energy to cope with the
speed of it, and watched as the house fell more and more into a state of
disarray. Ok, it was the school holidays. School holidays mean everyone being
around, and everyone being around naturally means more washing up, and less
chance to tidy up as everyone’s in the way. But it would have been nice to have
seen some sort of progress from the pig sty the house had become while I dared
to be ill- and by that I mean it getting better, not gradually getting worse!
On Thursday
the entire day was wasted on trying to persuade a bird to come out of the
chimney where he had fallen the afternoon before. There’s a log burner in the
fireplace, and we spent an age trying to work out if the hole at the back was
big enough for him to come through if he wanted to. Having decided it was we
made sure that someone was watching out for him all day. We then spent the
whole (cold) day with the living room shut off, its windows open and the log
burner doors open. The bird spent the entire day sitting just above the opening
to the chimney- we could see his feet or at one point his face when he bothered
to look through the hole. He responded to birds outside, and to bird song on
the computer, but he refused to come out.
We gave in
in the end and closed the log burner doors in the hope that by morning he would
have found his way into it, and we could then just let him out from there- I
just didn’t want to come down in the morning to find a bird flying around the
living room! We tried again on Friday, by which time we also discovered that
the log burner actually pulls away from the wall, but after hearing a lot of
flapping and chirping to another bird (who was obviously up on the chimney pot)
we couldn’t see him any more and haven’t heard from him since. I'm really hoping he
managed to find his way out at the top!!
Friday also
saw a visit from my parents who had come down for a few days. It was lovely to
see them, and the children enjoyed catching up with them- especially our
youngest who was able to show off all her birthday presents, but I was very
embarrassed by the state of the house. Ok, I know there was a reason for it to
be looking like it was, but I don’t like anyone to see it looking like a
complete tip. Fortunately they knew all about how poorly everyone has been
recently, and when I apologised they told me there was no need.
I did at
least manage to achieve a couple of my goals over the week. By this afternoon I
had managed to complete all four of the demo dresses I needed to get made up.
Unfortunately the weather has been against me for the last few days and I still haven’t
managed to take the photos yet, as it really does help if it is bright out. Hopefully
tomorrow will be and I’ll finally get a chance to put the photos with the
descriptions on the website.
I’ve also
managed to get some more work done on a couple of outfits for some outstanding
orders. Having managed to get one ready and posted during the week, I’m pleased
when I manage to get the bedding part of another order finished this afternoon.
That’s another order ready to go, and I can let my customer know in the morning
that it’s finally on its way to her. I’ve also got two outfits partly made up,
with the poppers already sewn on.
It may have
been a bit of a slow week, and I may feel like I really need another week with
the children off school to make up for all the lost time, but I guess all in all it’s
not been a bad few days. I’m finally feeling like tackling the mountain of
housework that’s waiting for me, I’ve managed to send out or complete the
longest outstanding orders and make up all my new dresses. On that positive
note, it’s now time for Mike and I to put our brains in gear and head off out
to the monthly quiz night at the pub…
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