a day at channel 4

Yesterday I assisted on a group delivery of accelerated productivity with People Who Do.  It was great.  The team at Channel 4 digital really got it.  They were all game and had chosen to come along and do the course, so that was a good start.  It is, obviously, sightly more formal, when doing a group.  Not formal as in stiff and contained - there was lots of good chat - just more structured.  I am feeling hugely more confident that I will be able to deliver very soon.  And looking forward to it.  Am enjoying this new role.  And am going to get some fancy schmancy lovely new letterpress business cards soon too. 

Other than that I have been looking at my own busy schedule and seeing where I can fit in all the things I need to do.  I am getting frustrated about how it feels as if all household and childcare stuff is firmly in my camp, but complaining about it makes me a nag!  No good to anyone that!! 

I don't know quite how to tackle it at all.  Maybe get a cleaner??  I think when I start earning more and properly then this will have to be the case.  Until then I find it hugely difficult to justify.  I mean £21 a week (or there abouts? it maybe more?) is going on £100 a month and that is £1200 a year.  On the other hand... that makes it £10 a week each.  Which surely we could manage? Its a perennail and tricky issue this one!!

Yesterday I came home and complained about the cutlery not being put away and the bin not being emptied.  I do recall how it drove me MAD when Hub used to come home and do that very same thing.  And poor Hub had managed to actually mop the kitchen floor, clean out a cupboard and go to the dump with the garden debris.   Having said that it drives me mad that if I don't do it the cutlery thing after washing up it overflowing and there are no spoons in the drawer.  And the bin is always left till the bag breaks (when I am trying to empty it).  grrrrr

And the other thing that really pissed me off this week, was that for months, a year even - my plan to move Bub into the spare room to commandeer the back box room as my studio hit a set back on Monday.  I  was blocked on it for ages, because it has been nice to have a spare bed.  When Hub gets a cold, he snores really badly, so I would sneak off and sleep somewhere else.  But since I got rid of the mattress (because it took up the whole floor in the 'studio') I realised that I had no where to go!  And the other night I ended up camped on the floor because I needed to sleep!! My solution idea was to get bunk beds for Bub.  On Monday I measured for where the bunk beds ought to go, and there is just not enough room for them.  The only place they can fit is in the middle of the room which is just not very pleasing.  I regret getting rid of the double mattress, which I could have left in Bub's room and have been fine for a while....

Sometimes progress means letting go of something.  And I realised last night, that bunk beds will mean I won't get to snuggle in with Bub any more.  He is nearly 4 and we are rushing him into these bunk beds when, had I just stopped and thought for a bit, he could have had that double mattress for a while more and if Hub did snore, I could have snuck in and slept with Bub.  It would have been fine. More than fine.  It was something rather lovely and I will miss it.

Anyway, we have ordered the bunk beds from a chap who goes to Ikea for you and assembles everything. Worth every penny I reckon.

Today our handyman is round ticking LOADS of things off the to do list.  Doorbell will be working consistently, the oven door will shut again, that light Bro gave me for Christmas will be up, the towel rack is up, the bathroom door knob wont fall off every time we use it, the ugly satellite dish will be gone, the hooks are up to hang a curtain over the doorway when guests sleep in the new 'guest room' (sofa bed in the living room....)

The inside of Bub's new toy cupboard will not have big holes in the wall and Hub will have a new shelf inside the wardrobe to put his jumpers on (and there will be room to put the spare bedding in there).  There will be a nice 50's hook rack on the back of the door to hang up coats and stuff.  The powerpoints in the bedroom will no longer be INSIDE the wardrobe (why was it like that??)

Oh and we will have a mains water tap INSIDE the house.  All good.