It’s my first fortnightly life lately of 2026, nothing happened in the first week and this second week has been crazy busy. I know if you read the self help books they advise to space out life but the reality is many dates are chosen by others (Premier League, The Literacy trust) and you have to simply get on with it…
Not much happened in week one, although there was great excitement when it stopped raining and the spring sunshine arrived. It was a temporary pause in poor weather, but was so good whilst it lasted. Saturday morning at parkrun was particularly gorgeous.
This week has been full on and football has taken starring role. On Tuesday night we went to see our local team play out a goalless draw. As it’s our bogey team it wasn’t as bad as it could have been. Whilst the logistics to get my son and I together for the game were akin to a military operation we had a lovely night. It was one of those really social nights. I bumped into my children’s old primary school Head, such a wonderful man and it was so nice to catch up with him after more than 5 years. My son saw a few pals and his old school mate was doing the half time challenge on the pitch. One of my work team was also at the match so the photo is of me waving to her in the opposite stand and she sent a similar photo back too. It’s the small things which keep you amused! After our night watching football I took my son to football training in the next town on Wednesday night and today he has been playing in a tournament with mixed results although he’s very proud of the goal he scored. There’s also been lots of football on tv and there always seems to have been a match playing in the background this week. I do live in a pretty football mad household,
Thursday was World Book day. I was very organised this year sorting my costume out at half term and using Vinted to create an outfit for the Lorax. My class’ theme this year was Dr Seuss characters. I was really pleased with my Vinted finds, my yellow wig is of amazing quality and the orange broderie dress is one I’ll wear in the summer, not just for dressing up. I did need a lot of orange make up to cover my arms, legs and face. Needless to say I did this at school rather than after my early gym session. I didn’t fancy dressing up in such a public place, although it’s a very friendly gym and I’m sure everybody would have been lovely. At school, I did my face first and sent through a picture to my daughter saying it reminded me of her look circa Year 9 when fake tan was definitely a thing. She did write a funny reply back and was able to laugh at her younger self. Our team’s costumes looked great, as well as the Lorax we had the Grinch and Cindy Lou and the Cat in the Hat and Sally. Our students had all made Thing 1-9 big badges and I found a great idea on Pinterest how to do blue hair which the students enjoyed making. I think we again smashed our theme and secured our throne as queens of World Book day. I also hope the parents appreciated that their brief for the day was simply to send their child in wearing a bright t-shirt. The Dr Seuss theme did remind me of when my children were thing 1 and 2 for their World Book day and I dressed up as the Cat in the Hat to walk them to school, it’s such a happy core memory.
Despite all the busyness of the past couple of weeks I’ve managed to do a lot of reading. Maybe I’m amazed is a beautiful book about music and autism , it’s a book which will stay with me. The other two books have been short stories as part of an Amazon series. I love the work of both authors but the short story was a different style. Moriaty’s book was a little too sci fi for me but did touch and make pertinent points about AI. I really liked Jane Green’s Famous Once but thought it would have been a brilliant full length book, it was reminiscent of Daisy Jones and the Six which is one of my favourite books of the past few years.
I’m looking forward, with a tinge of sadness, to the finale of Call the Midwife tonight as its final series ends. It’s one of my favourite series as I love the social history and I’m really hoping for a happy ending for all the characters we’ve watched over the years especially Trixie!
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