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On the bright side, the living room is now floored, painted and ready to move into. I got so excited, I went to the Glasgow Art Fair and had to buy this by the Little Artists: a photo of Damien Hurst and his shark tank recreated in Lego. (015) Genius, no? Almost as funny as my treasured French postcard of a traditional recipe. Poor chicken!
April 9th
Is it possible not to cry at school services? I know I am just so embarrassing. The Christmas concert was bad enough: shy little baby voices lisping through Away In A Manger… it gets me every time. Blub, blub, blub.
But the Easter service was even worse. The school’s headmistress has been off for months with an unspecified illness and when she was welcomed to the podium by the stand-in headteacher, to everyone’s distress, she was wearing a headscarf.
She told us how much she’d been missing the children and how the wonderful doctors were making her better. But every parent was looking at the headscarf and thinking: this is very bad news.
Her speech made me cry, but then the choir’s angelic The Lord Bless You And Keep You just about finished me off. I’d have come with a box of mansized if I’d been warned.
Still, I wasn’t in quite as much of a state as when my daughter’s nursery was closing down. The final concert of the year was emotionally-charged enough, what with tearful staff hugging each other at every opportunity, but then the children sang Abba’s Mamma Mia.
Now just who thought that was a good idea?!! A chorus of gorgeous little three and four year olds singing: ‘Mamma Mia, did you ever know, my, my, just how much I missed you… oooooh I’ve been broken-hearted, ooooh since the day we parted…’
Heads were turning while I tried to subdue myhowls. Believe me, I’d been feeling quiteconflicted enough about putting my three year old into daycare without that!
April is when Claudie has her birthday, so I have to put in a picture of her cake. We like a homemade cake in this household, preferably with themed decorations. This year’s request was for a grassy cake with cows!