NotSheep

Went off to do some errands today and decided to check at a different B&Q just in case they had bookcases (those who read regularly may remember that the local B&Q told me they didn’t have any because bookcases are “seasonal”). I wanted one from B&Q because I want it to match the other one I’ve got in the dining-room. Oh, and it’s bigger than the ones Argos and Homebase do. And hey, guess what? Turns out that the store I went to today is in a different season to the local one (they’re only about 15 miles apart, but hey…)

So I got a bookcase :-). And I got extra shelf-support-thingies too, since some of those from the old bookcase were missing

Now, before you start thinking I’m a really sad case who is pleased by something as minor as being able to buy a bookcase, let me explain…I’m not denying the “sad case” bit, but there is justification for my joy here. The bookcase was needed for all the stuff that’s currently in boxes in the dining-room. The boxes in the dining-room are currently all over the floor, preventing us from doing anything in the dining-room. But we aren’t planning on using the dining-room for dining…at least, not yet. It’s where my birth-pool is going. See? Can’t put birth-pool up because of boxes, can’t get rid of boxes because nowhere to put contents. Now…well, tomorrow…there’ll be a bookcase for the contents

(I could use a few more Ikea bookcases too - unfortunately Ikea doesn’t care about us poor people over here, and so they refuse to open a store here *boo to Ikea*)

I could have used the birth-pool tonight actually - not that I was in labour or anything (oh, please - I’m only 35 weeks, I’ve got at least three or four months to go - oh, and I can’t wait to find out what that baby-countdown-ticker thingy at the bottom of the page does once it goes past 40 weeks :lol:). But anyway…there was certainly something going on and the pain-relief of floating in water might have helped. Just before dinner, I started getting muscular pains across the lower part of my bump - running from just in front of one hip around the bottom of the bump to just in front of the other hip. And they *$Y@*#^ hurt! Scratchy asked if it was like labour; I said if labour was like this I’d be having an elective c-section. No position was good - in some it was constantly painful, in some the pain came and went (like contractions do). I’ve no idea what was going on, but I’m very grateful that it has now stopped. Of course it wasn’t until after I’d spent an hour moaning and swearing very loudly that I realised the bathroom window was open…

Speaking of bathrooms, the cold water tap for our bath has stopped working. It was fine, then I turned it on a few nights ago and there was a little trickle of water…and then that disappeared too. Now it feels loose to turn, and no water comes out at all. Any plumbing experts out there who can tell us what the problem is (and, with luck, tell us it involves a five-minute job with a 99p part)?

Plans for weekend: catch up on dirty laundry, catch up on putting away clean laundry, put up bookcase :-D, empty boxes in dining-room, do some planning of “educational” stuff for kids (I’d like to be autonomous, but it makes us all crazy)…and maybe, if there’s time, we’ll do a trial run on that birthing pool - just to see how long it takes to inflate and fill and how much water we need, you understand. Still, once we’ve done that, it would be rather a pity not to get in and see how it feels, don’t you agree?

Request to cats: can you please learn how to come in through the conveniently-left-open window instead of sitting miaowing outside the door for half an hour until I heave myself up to open it for you? Thanks a bunch.