the Legacy of the Curse (by sarah)
Monday, tired after the horrible weekend and a teething Jean, we become concerned about the vans gears after it got stuck and wouldnt change into 1st - it has been crunching alot and this concerns us to say the least!
So there I was in the van trying to read the Haynes manual whilst we drove along - we thought it might be the transmission fluid as there was a burnt oil smell sometimes too. To top this up should be a relatively minor thing to do - unfortunatly you need to raise the van up levelly to do so and own a syringe - ok so this is us and the syringe wasnt hard to find, neither was the car stands and jack (we like having a backup when heavey vechiles are concerned!). Unfortunatly we had no flate ground to do this on so had to resign ourselves to having someone else charge us stupid amounts of money for doing a simple job, badly.
I was supposed to do a lot of writting on Monday - I had lots and lots to do, unfortunatly my hand hurt to much from the pulled muscle so the day felt very wasted. We have our writting classes on Mondays too so I couldnt even do half the excersises. Then we ended up being late back home due to more stupidness where we still had to do the rubbish and stuff 🙁
Not least becuase I had a bad tummy:( Which hadnt been helped by Cheltenhams probably drugs trade! Someone had been hiding big black leather purses in the loo sistons resulting in them not flushing properlly and then getting blocked etc... I was in a little illys cafe when one was pulled out sopping wet - it was sereal!
After 4 hrs sleep we got up early as we needed to be in Stroud for 7:30. As always we where running late so Al had to leave me getting all the stuff out of the van whilst he run off to get his train ticket etc... (him having a meeting in London at 11 and me having one in Stroud at 12). Now getting the pushchair in and out of the van is pushing things for me a bit still but I managed it and remembered to restock the nappy changing bag. I finished dressing poor Jeany bow. Al had warned me she was in one our cloth nappies as we had miysterously run out of disposables?! in the house. Now these are prone to leakage and I didnt have any clean spare clothes for her on me 🙁
I got everything ready and headed off thinking I'd be able to catch up on some of the reading I was supposed to have already done. The fun event of the day was that Als train was still on the plateform so we got to wave Daddy goodbye though if it hadnt been for the Bar maids at the Royal William (of kittens mum fam) he wouldnt have seen us! Still I think he enjoyed sitting with the two young woman for the whole journey 😉
I headed to Tescos, I was a bit shakey having been sick and not having had enough sleep. I got to the bottom of the hill only to be told by a nice lady that Jeans shoe was at the top still. So I turned around and walked all the way back up - retrieved the shoe from the road! And headed back down - where upon Jean decided to throw her blanket and bottle over the side of the pushchair where I promtply run over it and got it all tangled round the pushchiars wheels. It was wet and covered in mud - sigh - her bottle was also very muddy - fortunatly I had a spare of both!
Finally at Tescos I went straight to change Jean lest she leak! It was then I discovered I had no nappy changing bag!!! Where the hell was it? I'd restocked it - oh lordy had I left it out in the car park? Would it get stolen or worse - would I be responsible for a bomb scare and get it blown up? I decided to put Jean in one of the free disposibles that where in the baby change though I had to take my book out of its bag to put the cloth one in and then hope that the urine soaked thing wouldnt leach onto my laptop and note book!
I was shaking so decided to have breakfast before attempting the hill again.
Fortunately no one had noticed so no bomb scare - though if I had been a terrorist this would have been a bad thing!
I had my meeting which was lots of fun though I got confussed over time and turned up two hours early and tried to order food before the place was serving etc... :/
The rest of the day was fine except for a slight incident with a strange guy in Costa but baby needing changing stopped it getting to dodgy! Unfortunatly this is not the end of Tuesday - oh no!
Al's meeting went on and on - then he had a debrief or what ever and then due to having stupid amounts of non-sleep he fell asleep on the circle line and therefore missed a late but bearable train. I mean while was stranded the last bus goes at 5 something and I wasnt worried untill it was 6:30. I found myself sitting in the Subway sandwitch place drinking coffee as it was open and wasnt a McDonalds - however this ment I was in there feeding Jean when some teenage girls decided to raid it for crips! Still the staff where nice and let me lurk until the 'hoodlems' where gone. I then rapidly made my way to the van where I locked me and Jean being a paranoid mother!
Al got in at 12:03 - not good. Really not good 🙁
Sorry just winging again really - the thing with the teenage girls doesnt sound like much but was actually quiet scary.
The Family | sarah | 
Fri 1st Dec 2006 12:00 am
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