Today...
Today we went to the zoo. When i say we, i mean Oisin, Ghin, Finn, Jago and myself. It was actually not as bad as i thought it would be. In fact they were so extremely civilised that i was amazed. Lunch was the extortinate Pizza Hut and they all played perfectly with the Pizza Hut books. They took themselves to the toilet and fed themselves. And they even entertained themselves, which allowed me to look after Ghin and feed him.
I was chatting to Jennifer today and talking about the 4 o'clock feeling and she said that it was very very common to feel that way. In fact it was a recognised phenomenon and her late husband used to take over from her at child rearing as part of his unwinding when he got home from work. It's too late ot start a new project and too early for dinner. You really need to watch that time. And now that i know it will creep up on me i will watch it. At work you're usually finishing up emails or just winding down for the day, but at home, well you don't really have that option. Also the blood sugar level thing also played a part... it's really interesting. She said that if you can, try and be occupied...i will noe do that. In fact in Friday we went out and did the compost thing and that took us all the way to five, which was excellent.
We went to St George's today as well. I was in two minds about it because i thought that we were too late. However, we got there at half ten and while we didn't manage to get a seat, it didn't matter because the boys never sit and i couldn't sit - i walked about with Ghin instead till he fell asleep and then i sat behind the stalls, while the world passed me by. I didn't buy anything really, apart from a sausage sandwich from Moss Brook Farm and a brownie from Wee Buns. The brownie i shared with Lara and the sandwich was split with Ghin. It was a little busy, although Lara complained that she wasn't getting much trade done. The boys were messing about and Finn managed to find a lost £20 note on the floor. That's what we used to go to the zoo!!!
I don't really notice how sad zoos are anymore really. Although when i saw the Moloch Gibbons my heart was aching. The last time i heard gibbons it was high up in the canopy of Endau Rompin. They were shouting at us and each other. One of the Orang Asli shouted back at them and then they threw sticks at us. In fact he was apologising to the monkey and he spoke to it as if he was speaking to a human, but in gibbon speak. Here they were then, swinging not in the treetops of the rainforests, but on bare wood. The temperature was dropping rapidly to 15 degrees. It don't think it ever gets that cold even at night in the rainforest.
Oisin and Finn are sking me if they can have ice pops...
I was chatting to Jennifer today and talking about the 4 o'clock feeling and she said that it was very very common to feel that way. In fact it was a recognised phenomenon and her late husband used to take over from her at child rearing as part of his unwinding when he got home from work. It's too late ot start a new project and too early for dinner. You really need to watch that time. And now that i know it will creep up on me i will watch it. At work you're usually finishing up emails or just winding down for the day, but at home, well you don't really have that option. Also the blood sugar level thing also played a part... it's really interesting. She said that if you can, try and be occupied...i will noe do that. In fact in Friday we went out and did the compost thing and that took us all the way to five, which was excellent.
We went to St George's today as well. I was in two minds about it because i thought that we were too late. However, we got there at half ten and while we didn't manage to get a seat, it didn't matter because the boys never sit and i couldn't sit - i walked about with Ghin instead till he fell asleep and then i sat behind the stalls, while the world passed me by. I didn't buy anything really, apart from a sausage sandwich from Moss Brook Farm and a brownie from Wee Buns. The brownie i shared with Lara and the sandwich was split with Ghin. It was a little busy, although Lara complained that she wasn't getting much trade done. The boys were messing about and Finn managed to find a lost £20 note on the floor. That's what we used to go to the zoo!!!
I don't really notice how sad zoos are anymore really. Although when i saw the Moloch Gibbons my heart was aching. The last time i heard gibbons it was high up in the canopy of Endau Rompin. They were shouting at us and each other. One of the Orang Asli shouted back at them and then they threw sticks at us. In fact he was apologising to the monkey and he spoke to it as if he was speaking to a human, but in gibbon speak. Here they were then, swinging not in the treetops of the rainforests, but on bare wood. The temperature was dropping rapidly to 15 degrees. It don't think it ever gets that cold even at night in the rainforest.
Oisin and Finn are sking me if they can have ice pops...
