Well, look at this, will you. Half-term starts tomorrow. I’ve got ten days away from school – and work at the pub begins – tomorrow!
I feel ambivalent about this – I love working with my friends and the pub runs well when us girls and boys are in charge. I get good tips and the wage money will pay for R’s new bedroom decoration and furniture, as well as getting me a few bits and buying M’s birthday present. However. I’m so christless beat.
WE-hinge, moan. Actually, it’s going to be good fun and it’s only 10 days – after that it’s only 3 and a half weeks until the Summer holidays and I can REALLY get a rest! I think I can cope for that long. Pity M rather – he’s dashing away with a smoothing iron, running about at home doing laundry, buttling breakfasts, trays of tea and coffee and fresh towels all over the building and smiling till his nose falls off at all and sundry. He fell onto the sofa in a paroxysm of despair the other day and howled about his tribulations as a housewife which made me giggle till I cried. I think a frilly apron and maid’s cap might be coming his way in the post…
We have the delightful and gloriously refreshing JM coming to stay on Saturday – hooray! She has promised to bring gin and wield an iron while she’s with us which will alleviate things a great deal. It’s always wonderful to see her and there’s stil lhope that I can drag M up to her neck of the woods before she skedaddles back to Sydders at the end of the Summer.
In other news I put my name down to provide a course on jewellery making for the students as part of ‘Enrichment Thursday’, where all staff were asked to think up an activity for the booklet from which students could pick. I bargained on 8 students. I’ve got 20, and a waiting list twice as long as that. Heeeelp. Luckily, some actual teachers and a couple of the TAs have asked if they can come and help so I won’t be the cowardly lion among a roomful of Christians….
Oooh, well done on the uptake for the jewellery making course.
Very glad to hear that Fugitive Pieces will be down your way soon – I shall expect constant updates and photos.
Hope the 10 days of pub work isn’t too gruelling on top of everything else.. roll on Summer hols, that’s what I say!
I was just wondering about that fugitive Fugitive… glad all’s well your end, Piereth – slinging beers for 10 days sounds like a lark, although given I collapse in a heap before ten these days, I’d probably be mistaken for a drunken patron… hope it was marvellous fun.