July 15, 2012
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Half of this week I don’t want to talk about here…
Probably because I’ll get myself in trouble with Girlguiding UK. Which is a pity, but there we go. I am Lying Low at the moment. Well. Apart from the polite, and short, email I just sent pointing out how disappointed I was with the ‘standard’ reply I’d had to the previous email, but that, really, I did need an answer to at least one of the questions that had been ignored.
I’ve got tea now. And Radio 2 is playing Thoroughly Modern Millie. And my waterproofs are being re-waterproofed, and making such a nice comforting noise in the washing machine. I have plans to make two of these when C’s been round to show D & I her Queen’s Guide Award Community Action findings off. The Brownie accounts are done (first draft) for 2011-2012, and there is £13.22 in the tin ready for next term (and more in the bank. Much more. Worry not). I may well tidy up my personal dry laundry, shove Jo’s in her room, and then knit until C arrives. You know. Once the table is tidy and I’ve located my shoes.
I did come here to produce a list, in order to get my brain into some sort of order. The week’s worth of Guiding Furore (worthwhile, but, oh, exhausting), has left me unable to think slightly straight. Plus, N’s doing this all day (yes, he has entered the 6 hour race), which also gives me the space to write something: I just can’t quite blog easily when he’s in the flat. Odd. What with all the rushing about last weekend, learning to spindle spin, going to a baby shower, and not going to Plymouth to collect N from doing this (he and his friends dropped out when the campsite disappeared in a sea of mud more usually found at Glastonbury: it wasn’t so much the conditions for riding as the quantity of mud involved in going back and forth to the tents…), I didn’t really have time to do anything last weekend. So.
- Go through Div C paperwork delivered by other C. Deposit box in Garden Cupboard. Under data protection, do I need to keep, e.g., my own application to become a leader from 2003? So much paperwork that’s entirely out of date… Awaiting response from County. The other stuff is either copies of the Rainbow/Brownie/Guide Programme from 3/4 years ago (so also out of date), or “useful information” which does, indeed, look useful. What to do with the Guiding Ambassador’s badge?
- put laundry away, well that which was dry. Also Jo’s laundry. That way the sitting room is free from drying racks. Rah.
- Put Brownie-min away, prep bag for Friday
- Test Chinese Lanterns for Monday, put matches into bag.
- Hard boil eggs for Monday You know what? It’ll be way more fun with a raw egg….
- Finish the garter-stitch part of J’s baby blanket. Cast on for Bannoffee’s blanket.
- Make at least one baby-restrainer
- Do something useful about sending Olympic goodies to the three people who commented on my Xanga-versary post (from which I deduce that everyone is, actually, fairly fed up with the Olympics). Please could you direct message me your addresses, or say “Oh, Hebe, you HAVE it already”?
- Remember what else it is that I’ve forgotten…
xxx
