skischool Monday

It's snowing apparently....Bex is VERY excited....but I thought I had instructed the Met Office that we were not to have snow....I will have to call them in the morning and see what went wrong. There is now a heated (!!) discussion about the difference between sleet and snow....I think it's sleet...so does Dan....Jack just doesn't care....Thomas has gone out, and announced that he's taking my Range Rover...in case the snow gets worse. I don't mind, but I told him to make sure he gets home....I need the car for town tomorrow....States....mustn't be late.

Dan announced this evening that he is starting work at the Zoo tomorrow.....WHAT?...where did that come from?....first I've heard of it. Apparently he hasn't got time to have another holiday between now and the end of March (what sort of holiday did he want for goodness sake?) so he's going to do a months voluntary work at Durrell. There's has been some heated discussion about the voluntary work that he could be doing around the house before going elsewhere!! ....

...and now we're into another conversation about the "free" part of "free work". Thomas is frankly outraged....charity begins at home apparently... Jack is a noninterested bystander again. Thomas has now decided that, when he makes his £100m (he's always claimed that one day he will make £100m) he will become a philanthropist.... and spend his whole life doing philanthropic things.....so that's fine...just as long as he can afford a decent old people's home for me to reside in while he's saving the world.

Jill out doing sport again this evening...she's had a good day, or so she told me as we passed each other this evening. She was at St. Martin's School at lunchtime teaching netball....and again it sounds like it went really well. No doubt she'll post a quick update on her return.

My last paragraph this evening is just to say that I have my first "questions without notice" tomorrow in the Assembly. The clue is in the title....15 minutes of questions from backbenchers...and no idea what they are going to ask. I'm reasonably welled prepped up...just a few more notes to read tomorrow morning....and a very short sitting I think....with luck we'll be done by lunchtime.

Right, I'm going to sign off now....and await the return of the sporty one....just hope she doesn't get snowed in where ever she is (we all know what Jersey's like....3 flakes of snow and the Island stops...2 flakes and we close the schools).....I'm switching the phone off in case she calls....far too cold to go out rescuing people tonight!  Stay safe people....and to think that I was mowing lawns yesterday.

I've had a good day today, met up with SW in town where we 'multi-tasked ' with chatting and shopping. Dan took Jessie through the woods to Lifeboat station where he had to do 'stuff'. I got back in just in time to change into a tracksuit, and head off to St Martin's school for netball- I love those girls, they are so keen and a joy to coach. Thanks must go to JP for keeping the club going and sorting out their league matches. 
Drove to a friends house and then we set off on a long walk to Ransoms, through woods and lanes, probably took us about an hour and a half. (There and back) I had to buy cat biscuits as we had run out, seemed a little unfair on the dog, but she enjoyed the walk and sniffing all the bags of food in the shop, at one point I had to pull her off the juicy bones section that she tried to snaffle on the way past!

Another change of clothes, and a quick bite to eat before badminton....not only did i ask MC to re-string my broken racquet but I ended up playing with him in the mixed. ( he is not only the badminton development officer, but also he was a former British singles champion and ranks currently 21 in the mens singles in the world)..... it's fair to say he did most of the work and won most of the points in our three matches, but i REALLY enjoyed it! I then played a ladies doubles with ST but we were up against the keen youngsters who basically played better than we did!! 

Special thanks must go to LT, because without her contribution of a delicious beef bourguignon home-made for supper tonight my family would be starving!

Blood test tomorrow morning.....