Monday Busyness

Monday, the girls' school was running teacher/parent appointments all day, which meant no school. One of Gloworm's friends was coming to spend the day while her parents went to work, so first thing, just as I was taking Abstract to the station (snow and motorbikes make an unhappy combination), her dad dropped her off.

A little later that morning, my cleaner arrived, which meant I had to chase Gloworm and friend out of the sitting room.  Then our builders arrived to start taking apart our conservatory preparatory to building our extension (I know, exciting, huh?).  Just as they were getting out of their van, the postman brought me a special delivery of my copyedits for Linked.

Then Abstract phoned to say he was coming home because he wasn't feeling well, so I had to go pick him up from the station.  Then I made lunch for the girls.  Shortly after that, they had to get into their uniforms and we all had to go out for parent/teacher appointments.

In between times, I did try to a) work and b) write, but it didn't exactly go too well.  Fortunately, Abstract, bless him, was up to taking the girls to their ballet lesson at 5.45pm.  I waited in to deliver Gloworm's friend to her dad when he came to pick her up, the builders disappeared, and I actually got half an hour of the house to myself.

Later, after dinner and TV-watching with the girls (we're working through the first season of Ally McBeal – and I have to say Ally's total emotional dysfunction is irritating me a lot more than it did twelve years ago!), I took the laptop to bed and caught up on my writing.

And that was Monday.  I'm hoping the rest of the week is a little more Immi-working oriented.