When cleaning up the study I stumbled across a whole box of old CD's. Nothing of any use. In a moment of creativity we glued these together and made some sun catchers for the garden. They work really well. Whether I'll be so enamored when life goes back to normal time will tell. But why even tell you this?.....
My 11 year old son has a desperate desire to see a shooting star. It's meant to be a good week to see one, so each night we have put blankets in the garden laid down and stared intently at the starry sky, just trying to spot one shooting star.
I've discovered that we have some very active bat activity in our garden (which is pretty cool) and the local cats seem to live in our garden (and use it as their public convenience - yuck). I've also discovered that shooting stars are not necessarily easy to spot. After 3 nights I suddenly thought we had success last night. Only to discover it was the reflection from a street light on our sun catcher. If you have any influence on the heavens could you please arrange for a shooting star tonight. It's getting cold out there.
We still haven't made the bogies from the science kit. Once opened there was barely anything in the box. Instructions suggested 'usual' items available in all kitchens. REALLY..... so does this mean that a lifetime without any glucose syrup has been a life wasted. Do the rest of you have glucose syrup? If so, what do you use it for? Should I be using it? Anyway, I've researched and found out we can make some - perhaps another day - seems a lot of work to make fake bogies, when I can produce the real thing myself with no effort at all (TMI?).
I've just spent the morning cleaning the house. Gosh I hate cleaning, not just a little - a really big amount. I know I'm spoiled but I normally have a clearner. When my husband and I moved in together we quickly discovered cleaning was the one thing we argued about. At the time we were skint so we gave up eating one day a week and got a cleaner instead. I've never looked back.
Suddenly with the social isolating I am having to do it myself and as I'm on furlough and my husband is still working (making me officially a gold digger!) it obviously falls to me. But for 4 weeks now I just feel like I've been catering, cleaning, washing and doing DIY. I know there are people that take great pride in a neat house and a great piece of DIY - I'm just not one of those people. If you ARE one of those people I can't tell you how much I admire you. It just puts me in a foul mood. The fact we're all in the house and it looks like it did before I started within 5 minutes really isn't helping.
Quite a long post today, but I'm secretly proud I managed to cover off all the topics in the title in a cohesive way - who says life isn't normal right now!
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