NotSheep

It seems that everyone has recovered from the lurgy, just in time for the weekend. Barney and George agreed that it wouldn’t be a good idea to go to archery yesterday, but Freddy felt up to going to his dance-class yesterday afternoon, and we were all up and about today. Headed off this morning with my to-do list, and got through most of it And even better, Toby managed to be in the car for several chunks of the day without crying

Parking was nuts - the car-park where I usually park, and which is usually not even half-full, was already full by 10.30 am. Finally got parked somewhere else, only slightly less convenient, and discovered, within a minute of getting out of the car, that one of my shoes has a split in the sole, so I walked around for the rest of the day with a squelchy foot in a mucky sock I do really need to buy some new footwear; the problem is that my feet are not the shape most shoe manufacturers think feet should be, and I’m too mean to pay huge amounts of money for something I’ll no doubt wear out within a few months anyway.

Banking - the boys get their pocket money once a month, in theory on the first of the month, but in practice it’s usually late. So we went to the bank where they have accounts and irritated all the people in line behind us while they each put their own money in their own accounts.

Went and bought some groceries, though not much, as I was looking for special offers and there wasn’t much worthwhile. Shall have to do a proper grocery list one of these days…

Had a look at a few cameras - our digital camera has stopped functioning properly, and apparently Kodak “can’t get the parts” to fix it. Funny - I thought they made the parts. Anyway, it’s a recognised fault with this particular model, according to Kodak (though according to the woman in Jessops, who really did seem to know her stuff, it’s a recognised fault with most Kodak models, but anyway…) and they are willing to offer us a discounted slightly-better model. The discount only brings it to about £20 less than the lowest price I can find for it on-line though, so I figure if we’re going to buy a new camera, we might as well get what we want. I am currently being tempted by something which is slightly outside our planned budget, so I won’t say anything until we do something, if you see what I mean.

Discovered that Boots are now selling Nappi Nippas - well, the package says Nappi Nippas, the actual things inside it say they’re Snappis, which I know are supposed to be the same as Nappi Nippas, only they’re not the same as the one Nappi Nippa that I can still find. Maybe the design’s changed, I don’t know. But I’m happy to have found them, because when you’ve mislaid all your others, it gets a bit desperate when you mislay the last one Also picked up a packet of nappy pins, just in case (and also so I can use the non-terry squares I’ve got).

Bought kitty-litter and chatted with the bloke in the pet shop about what I’m going to do with the new aquarium. Drove back across the city (argh) to pick up Scratchy and came home; I was planning on going to look at Christmas trees, by the time I remembered we were only 50 yards down the road from Scratchy’s workplace, but we were facing the wrong direction and I couldn’t be bothered to turn around and fight the traffic, so came home instead. After dinner we moved the first two fish into the new aquarium to start getting it cycled, then Barney and Scratchy went off to play basketball. I’m glad to see them doing stuff together - Barney really enjoys spending time with Scratchy, and with them being boys, they need to do stuff side-by-side instead of face-to-face the way sensible people (i.e. girls) do it

I am definitely getting my Christmas list dealt with this weekend, and purchasing as much as possible on-line, so that I can get out next week and finish shopping. It’s bad enough already out there; give it another ten days and it will be completely nuts