Help and support required. Send urgently. ** EDIT

EDIT: Okay to prevent confusion and allay distress let me put it clearly:

* 100s&1000s are little spherical non-pariel sort of things which are used for cake decoration, ice-cream toppings and for making the internationally reknowned and also world famous 'Fairy Bread'.

* below is the picture of an international comparison of Australian and UK 100s&1000s. The Australian ones are at the top of the picture. They are bright and shiny and very pretty. The lower ones are the UK ones (also known as 'foreign') - they are all quiet and shy in their colouring.

Hey y'all.

this is a long weekend (aka public holiday, bank holiday) this weekend here in the UK (yes I know it is in Aust as well but I'm here on top of the revisionist history hill and it is my blog so.....) and my brother-in-law is arriving at some point this afternoon.

I don't know when b/c CK and his brother couldn't actually figure out which train he might catch. Two sensible, very grown-up men of wide travel and experience, both with access to the innernets yet googling 'train time to on top of the hill' seemed beyond them! Consequently I am housebound despite my paints and brushes being down at school b/c I have to wait here to go fetch B-I-L should he have caught an earlier train.

Do I seem a little annoyed? Hm! This would be becauseI had plans. Plans do you hear? It is not often in my life that I am sufficiently organised to actually have plans which I actively follow through (loads of intent but little completion) and I was looking forward to getting a tick in that box today. I was 'good mother' this a.m. and did reading with Babyman's classmates then normally while they had assembly I would go and paint some more of my cupbaord out in the hall but no, it has been moved hasn't it? So rather than mooch around school for the three hour assembly Mr Headteacher indulges in I came home to do my boring Friday housework. Which is when I spoke with CK.

My fabulous plan for going back down to school for a few hours this afternoon has gone the way of the dodo and I have been lurking at home getting in the way of my dogs' snoozes. And I have been mulling. Mulling over what to feed these people this weekend (Yes. It is only one more than normal but still....). Mulling over just how revoltingly dusty my living room was (note 'was' - got a demolition crew into blow up the dust bunnies' megalopolis!) . Mulling over the mini-quilts that are calling to me (I bought fabric and I may be in love) . And mulling over the juggling that has to take place this weekend. Birthday parties, swimming, mopping up Club Penguin provoked tears, choir recital at church (is it bad if I take my knitting and just sit up the back quietly?) and all the dirty clothes that lurk out in my laundry.


Not the most clear picture but you should be able to see the difference between the insipidity (is this a word?) of the UK 100s &1000s and the Australian ones. The foreign ones are also made differently. They are hollow, little puffs of coloured air made solid.

So to keep myself going throughout the weekend I am going to finish painting the little box I am working on and will send it out to somebody on Tuesday. Would you like it? Leave a comment. I shall select a name from a number entered into the random interger generator more commonly referred to as CK. Perhaps on Sunday. Maybe Monday. At some point over the weekend anyway. Interested?