I just woke up and was laying here thinking that I haven't written a blog for what seems like ages! I don't know how these professional bloggers do it everyday, or you know these peeps that put up videos daily. What happens if you've had a week where bugger all has happened? Everyone gets those don't they?....
Then I got to thinking that bugger all has happened to me since we broke up for the summer holidays, and as we have only two weeks left I began to wonder where the time had gone, and surely SOMETHING must have happened in the four weeks we have been on the summer break, how easy it is to let time pass with out actually doing anything, don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with doing nothing, and everyone should do some doing nothing, but if I do nothing I have this horrible sick feeling in my stomach that I have wasted time, valuable 'seeing' time, I spend all my time rushing around to get all my jobs done so that I have free time to DO SOMETHING, by which time I am too bloody knackered to do the SOMETHING I was going to do!.....
Now I am thinking about it, I have been doing things, I went with my Daughter to Woodbridge for the first week of the hols to visit our friends and get my boat tinkling fix, the following week I started to work at holiday club, the special needs school where I work provides a holiday club for the students for three weeks of the summer hols, its only three days each week, but playing is much harder than working, although I was working 1-1 with a child that I know well, I found it very tiring trying to keep him entertained, also as you know, I work day on day off, so working three days in a row only goes to show that I truly made the right decision when I reduced my days back in April.
So the second week of the summer hols introduced my to a young lady called Amy, my eldest daughter had invited someone she had met through going to concerts to our house to stay for a few days as the band they follow, now wait, they are called Don Broco, were doing four gigs over four nights, the first two in Bedford (where they come from) and the following two in London, Amy came all the way from Portsmouth, so I suppose it made sense for her to come and stay with us for a few days as both Bedford and London are a stones throw away from us, we also had another one of my daughters friend come to stay, as her and her family were on holiday in Ireland, she flew back for the concerts too. Amy was a very excitable young lady, not the most tidy, but how many teenagers are. Anyway, this took up four days of my week, as a fairly responsible parent I felt the need to wait up for them to come home, and ensure there was hot pasta and a drink for them to come home to at 1.30am, all this and working for three days did not set me up well for the following week where I spent half my time walking around like a zombie and the other half yawning my head off.
We did take the children on some lovely trips at holiday club, we went to a place called Jungle Jims, sort of a soft play, climbing around sort of affair, I find it so hard, and parents & carers of special needs children, I applaud you, to understand why some parents of mainstream children feel the need to move their little darlings away form a child that is dribbling or making funny noises, or stand and stare as we are coaxing a child to step into the ball pit who is screaming his head off, not because he doesn't want to get in, but because he desperately wants to but doesn't know how and everything looks and sounds different to the child that's standing behind me with his tutting mother, those children have just as much right, or even more, to experience these places, it gets right on my nerves! Having said that, the staff at Jungle Jims in Sandy, were extremely helpful and understanding, they came and found us to warn us that two people were about to come out with Peppa Pig and some other piggy costume on, some of our children loved it, and a few others were simply terrified, but because the staff had warned us we were able to occupy the children that we knew wouldn't like it and preventing any undesirable behaviours! They also have the best disabled toilet I have seen, totally clued up! Well done JJ's in Sandy, Bedfordshire.
The following week, we took the children to the splash park in Letchworth, another lovely day and a fantastic experience for the children, as well as the adults, for me, avoiding hundred of little people, in bright sunshine as well as steering my little charge away from these water fountain things that start spraying out of no-where was totally exhausting, and we spend the afternoon in a very dark room with gentle music, sensory lights, air conditioning and a few favourite sensory toys...well chilled.
The last day of Summer club, I got up early and took Ralph for a walk, talk about getting some inner peace, we had a fantastic walk, and although the weather wasn't at its best, the fog felt strangely calming, it usually makes me feel panicky, but maybe I needed the quiet time to gather my thoughts as this was A Level results week!!!
In the photo below there was a massive Deer standing in the middle of the field by the time I had got my phone sorted it had started to leg it, as I took the picky it was just in front of the telegraph pole...I think!
My eldest Daughter collected her A Level results on Thursday morning, Friday morning we went into London where she enrolled with the London Fashion Retail Academy to start in September! Very proud Mummy, and to celebrate we trashed Oxford street in the pouring rain...If you go to Oxford street, you just gotta go in Lush...its simply LUSH. Then found a nice quiet Wagamamas in Islington for a bit of nosh.
So, that's how four weeks have slipped through my fingers, I have no news on when my lighting will be done, nor do I know when my consignment of visual aids will arrive. This week daughter number 1 will be going off to the Reading Festival Thursday and will return Monday starving hungry and tired, with a mountain of dirty clothes and equipment (but well worth it for the experience eh?) and Daughter number 2 and I will be jumping on the train and whizzing down to Brighton for a few days, speak soon, and I hope I have more interesting news to share with you next time x
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