Hi ho hi ho it’s off to school they go …

Well it was a tad more stressful than I had planned! My alarm went off and hub had already got the kids up and sorted breakfast – he up at 7 and out of the house by 8am, so I take over when I get up at half seven.

Hub’s clothes were all over the floor – where they’ve been for the past few days and I’ve refused to pick them up for him. I tripped over his pile of crap this morning and hurt my foot. Made it to the bathroom and it was stinking like only a bloke can leave it with dribbles of – well, use your imagination over the toilet seat and before I had even started my day I was throwing up. Great! So yeah, by the time I faced the family I was in a foul mood. Hub immediately started on me with the “Oh you’re so cheerful in the mornings” crap – which of course only serves to make the mood worse!! Needless to say he scuttled out of the house pretty quickly and I dealt with the fallout.

Nathan had a complete and utter refusal to get dressed. He wanted to go and play on his computer – his computer that Hub was SUPPOSED to have put a time lock on a few days ago – but errr apparently Hub has been “too busy” to do that (too busy playing PC games all evening) Megan was dressed and ready with her coat on half an hour before we needed to even go anywhere!!!

Finally got out of the house and thank you thank you to the god of rain for allowing us parents to be able to chuck them straight through the school doors instead of hanging around in the playground!

I’d wanted to get a photo of them before they went off on their first day … but the rain was too much outside and I couldn’t get a decent shot indoors because it was so DARK! Autumn is definitely gone!!

So I am having a very well deserved cup of coffee before I go to work!

More rain in a day today than in a month!

Well that’s what the radio said this afternoon anyway!

I was up at 5am and all motivated to go do the market! I got there early, got a pitch, got set up and was absolutely drenched by around 8am! Had it not been for another trader who loaned me a tarpaulin and some clamps to protect at least ONE side of my pitch then I would have been totally screwed! At least I was only cold and wet! LOL

Technically NOT a good day to try out the market! The rain was just ridiculous and when the other traders started packing up by 11am – I knew it was pretty pointless sticking around! I stuck it out for another hour, but gave up at that point!

The people that were out braving the rain just weren’t browsing … they were carrying umbrellas with heads down and walking very quickly – I couldn’t blame them for not wanting to stop and have a sniff!

Anyway, it wasn’t a total loss – although I am out the pitch cost, but I learned a lot! I already know exactly what I need for my display now – and it shouldn’t cost the earth AND I may even be capable of building it myself with some hardboard, wood batons and some nails! Have hammer – can travel! HAH!

After taking the stock back to the workshop and picking up the kids, I pretty much spent the afternoon asleep on the sofa. It’ll be hard doing that every week with the early start, but fingers crossed for better weather next week!!