My ex smirked and pointed out that I now seemed to be backPeddling. She was, of course, right.

My monday, and therefore my week began with pastrami smelling little girl vomit on my bathroom floor just inches away from the toilet. None of the vomit made it to the toilet needless to say. Which was nice.
Today is a 'teacher training day', one of those days where the teachers at my daughter's school get paid for not actually teaching. As a result I have had to take the day off work, unpaid, to take care of my daughter and her 'little sister' friend Tü. I used to teach myself, and i'm pretty sure that I loved training days, but now that i'm on the other side of that particular fence, it absolutely annoys me. Its only two weeks since they had a weeks holiday for half-term. Couldn't they have done their training then? No. That would be unreasonable sillyness wouldn't it. Instead, they get a long w/e, both the friday and monday at mine and my ex's expense. Bloody teachers.
So now I sit on a bench in the gardens of Knaresborough House, watching Moo and Tü run up and down the terracing and exploring the bushes, and leaving presents for the faeries. Moo loves her new flip flops (pictured) so much she has taken them off to protect them from wear and tear.

Friday night I had a visit at Chambers from Eddie and Laynie, we jibbered the way we do as usual, they left at about 1am. I had 'one last bifta' and thought I would just do a bit to a painting that had been bugging me - only twenty minutes work at the most, I told myself...four hours later as the sun broke through the gap in my curtains, I have to say I was happier with the painting but I was really quite tired saturday. I had prepped an activity table and some breakfast for Moo before I collapsed in my nest so that I could sleep for a while. Fortunately, after taking the girls to tap on saturday morning, B came to the rescue and babysat for a couple of hours whilst I went for an afternoon power nap. Gawd bless B.

We all missed the bedrace in knaresborough. I wasn't bothered, but I think moo was disappointed.

Sunday was father's day, Moo painted me a picture and we decided we would 'deep clean' Chambers together. A wee bit ambitious in hindsight. We didn't any further than her bedroom. Rearranging and tidying...she has a million toys, most of which havn't seen the light of day for months, if not years. I finally found a use for the sony surround sound system i've held onto for about three years. Moo now has half a dozen speakers dotted around her room. The sound quality is surprisingly good. Wish I thought of that for my nest now...

And that brings us up to today... Tomorrow i'm back with the new job. Its busy and over time a potentially a heavy workload. Hope it sticks for a bit.

Please remain seated until the vehicle has come to a complete stop.

Those distant alarms bells are closer and louder now. The sounds I hadn't heard before which were distracting me are being drowned out now. Standby.

I'm not just a timelord...

Mind the gap.