Marguerite
Active Member
It's February already! Yikes!
husband woke me early this morning - his phone alarm was telling him that we had a specialist appointment, and for once I didn't have my own record of it. A 9 am appointment and we didn't get in to the doctor until 10.30. All I needed! Plus it means that husband is catching the boat home tonight, I'm about to go and collect him from the wharf.
difficult child 3 is already beginning to fall behind in schoolwork, although he's been working hard this week. He's resigned to spending Saturday doing schoolwork. I'm hoping to get him to do some more work tonight to cut down on how much he has to do. He is so dead against homework, but he is going to have to begin at some stage. The problem is, the times when he would be doing homework, his medications are worn off. if this keeps up I'll have to talk to his teachers about cutting his workload. And the school year is less than a week old already!
We've still got 'rain' of sorts. It's not so much rain, it's more 99% humidity, occasionally condensing. The ground is dry but any washing is damp. Nothing can dry in this humidity. So the plants are wilting and need watering, despite the 'rain'.
In this heat we don't mind any rain. We'd welcome it. It doesn't stop us doing what we normally do, although the beach is less pleasant when the sand sticks to you because the top layer is damp. But the air is oppressive and the sky is full of looming low clouds with nothing much productive to do.
We know winter will be much drier. Not looking forward to it. I was window-shopping for rainwater tanks after the doctor appointment - the government subsidy is attractive. After the election it could be even more attractive because both parties are likely to promise an increase. We're running out of places next to the house for any more tanks - we may need to get the free-standing sculptural ones (Waterwall). And it made me wonder - what if a company was set up call itself Oasis, and selling its tanks called Wonderwall? Would there be copyright issues? It certainly sounds like it'd sell, but I wouldn't like having to negotiate with Liam Gallagher for the rights to the name...
Enjoy your Thursday, everyone. We're past the halfway mar for the week, and now well into 2007.
Marg
husband woke me early this morning - his phone alarm was telling him that we had a specialist appointment, and for once I didn't have my own record of it. A 9 am appointment and we didn't get in to the doctor until 10.30. All I needed! Plus it means that husband is catching the boat home tonight, I'm about to go and collect him from the wharf.
difficult child 3 is already beginning to fall behind in schoolwork, although he's been working hard this week. He's resigned to spending Saturday doing schoolwork. I'm hoping to get him to do some more work tonight to cut down on how much he has to do. He is so dead against homework, but he is going to have to begin at some stage. The problem is, the times when he would be doing homework, his medications are worn off. if this keeps up I'll have to talk to his teachers about cutting his workload. And the school year is less than a week old already!
We've still got 'rain' of sorts. It's not so much rain, it's more 99% humidity, occasionally condensing. The ground is dry but any washing is damp. Nothing can dry in this humidity. So the plants are wilting and need watering, despite the 'rain'.
In this heat we don't mind any rain. We'd welcome it. It doesn't stop us doing what we normally do, although the beach is less pleasant when the sand sticks to you because the top layer is damp. But the air is oppressive and the sky is full of looming low clouds with nothing much productive to do.
We know winter will be much drier. Not looking forward to it. I was window-shopping for rainwater tanks after the doctor appointment - the government subsidy is attractive. After the election it could be even more attractive because both parties are likely to promise an increase. We're running out of places next to the house for any more tanks - we may need to get the free-standing sculptural ones (Waterwall). And it made me wonder - what if a company was set up call itself Oasis, and selling its tanks called Wonderwall? Would there be copyright issues? It certainly sounds like it'd sell, but I wouldn't like having to negotiate with Liam Gallagher for the rights to the name...
Enjoy your Thursday, everyone. We're past the halfway mar for the week, and now well into 2007.
Marg
