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Today all seems to have happened early, if you see what I mean. Breakfast didn’t really happen at all, because the boys were too busy screeching at each other, so I sent them upstairs to get dressed. We cleaned up a bit after that, then I tried to print something and still couldn’t (network printer not doing exactly what it’s supposed to…for about six months), phoned Scratchy and shouted at him about that, made an early lunch, got the boys to settle down to some work (mostly just practising the relevant musical instruments), got the printer working … Barney and George both posted on their blogs, and Barney and I sat together for a while getting a new theme for his, which prompted me to put a new theme on this one, which more or less took up the rest of the day (and I’m still working on it, in case you’re wondering why it doesn’t look any different - I need to figure out how to make the whole theme wider so that the main column can be wider too). Scratchy finishes early on Fridays so he got here shortly after 4, and we got on with making dinner etc - as a result of all of that, it’s now 7.35 pm and everyone’s in bed

Friday is pet-day here too - we do all the “routine maintenance” - the cats’ bowls get washed, the kitty-litter changed, the aquarium gets a water-change, and tonight it got cleaned on the inside as well as the outside - a bit of creative thinking resulted in half a dishcloth wound around a pair of kitchen tongs, and that wiped the algae off the inside of the glass very well :-). The cats don’t seem to pay any attention to the fish - I’d wondered what their reaction would be, but they each seem to have showed interest for about a minute-and-a-half and then forgotten all about it. The fish are doing well now - we’ve not lost any more since that disastrous few days a couple of weeks back, and they’re all displaying their colours intensely, which is apparently a sign of contentment. We’ve got three babies too! And I’ve even been brave enough to hand-feed them - I’m working on getting over the girliness that stops me from sticking my hand into the tank

Tomorrow’s another early start, with swimming lessons followed by trampoline. Barney’s definitely giving up the trampoline class, though I’ve told him he’s still expected to speak to the instructor and apologise for how he behaved last week. We have to do a quick library visit tomorrow too, as some books have to be returned - maybe Barney can do that while George is at trampoline.

I’m just thinking out loud now, so I’ll stop here