2026
With Jamie suffering with a really bad cold the rest of us know our fate but annoyingly we have three days left before we all finish for a two week break.
Glass half empty time I just know that little miss spreader will be right as ninepence and the rest of the family will suffer for a fortnight…
Jamie turned to me this afternoon and said “What am I going to do for two weeks?”
Someone who is busy all the time knows its going to be hard to do a ‘Staycation’ surrounded by all the work temptations to just do nothing.
I told her you can do anything you want gardening, painting, swimming anything and she looked worried….
Domino’s for the divs wasters and drop outs, Reagan asked how come that lot get rewarded for failing and we don’t get prize pizza for trying our best?
Jamie pointed out that Reagan is going to Alton Towers on a reward trip, but we are paying for that, I wonder if the parents of the pupils that have been pissing about are paying for the pizzas?
It made me think, what message is that sending out? Do fuck all as a child you’ll get a prize and even better your parents don’t pay for it!
Got up to a full basket of laundry even though I left an empty basket late yesterday. Unfortunately Reagan had not put any of her laundry in the basket all week nor had she unpacked her case from her Poland trip which is so demoralising.
I wish she wasn’t so lazy and it infuriates me that she uses studying or the illusion of being so overcome with the rigour of GCSE prep to be lazy in all other aspects of life.
Catching up on laundry took away my enthusiasm for pottering and I felt I wasted my Sunday although I did get 4 loads of laundry done. The next thing I expect Reagan to do or not do is take her clothes and put them away when I have dried and folded them but may e she will surprise me?
Watching Band of Brothers and watching them witnessing the atrocities that were the reason they had to fight was very sobering considering the United States of America are ruled by a similar narcissist who seems to be repeating what happened in Germany in the thirties?
All those lives ended for what, one mans ideal… all those young men who fought on both sides because it was their duty because their leaders ordered them to?
Today its oil of which America has enough but Trump wants more and is taking his country into war with Iran, under guise of overthrowing tirent regimes for the betterment of Iranian people but they have oil…?
I dunno all those young Americans that will go fight his war because their leader tells them to will suffer the same as their predecessors in World War 2 many will die all will suffer and for what?
Got a yearning to watch band of brothers again a couple of days ago and tonight I watched episode 9 “Why we fight” I am tired its 11:45 the last episode will have to wait till tomorrow, sadly.
Reagan is guarded but if you allow her to talk about how hard she is working she will tell you she is doing her to pass as many GCSEs as she can, I only want her to do her best because that’s enough. She is learning to play the piano which is a nice break from academia and likes buying clothes off Vinted I will always be there to support her as she makes me proud every day as she approaches her 16th birthday.
Lincoln seems to find academia easy obtaining a near perfect score in religious studies and all the teachers want to teach him because he has the potential to pass any subject highly if he put the effort in. The next two years will be very good for him after choosing subjects that light him up like drama and music but I hope one of the lesser subject like photography or film study don’t go ahead because I would live him to study history. Playing drums is good for him but drama at school and at the Lyceum is his favourite and I will support him whatever he does. He makes me proud every day!
Jamie has two main roles the main one is matriarch to our family something she has waited her whole life for and is so good at it even if she thinks otherwise. The second is her career that in 13 years since deciding to do an Open University coarse, to running the best fertility counselling team in the country from Harley Street, London, she just carries on achieving what she knew was always possible. I love watching her thrive and she makes me proud every day.
Me I just their biggest supporter…
If you spill milk and clean it up there are no consequences you just spilled milk but if you continually spill stuff and walk away leaving others to hopefully sort out your stuff you will feel smug for a while that fools just clean up after you, but one day when the fools are no longer there you’ll be left on your own looking at the mess and I hope its a shit show when that happens and you realise what you did, how you made others feel…
Reagan?
Just got in from pool not in the best of moods because I feel like I let my team down, loosing my frame and allowing someone to get under my skin which annoyed me!
I am better than that.
We drew the game against a team we should beat but they played well and earned their point I should be able to be the better person and for the most part tonight I was but I dropped my guard for a moment…i was frustrated
This my be my last season playing pool forty odd years might be enough…?
Hate the way I feel right now?
Maybe time to call it a day!
After “acquiring” an NVR that has sat by my feet for a couple of years I got a bee in my bonnet to see if I could get it working so bought a PoE camera and give it go.
I was surprised how easy it was once I had factory reset the NVR it was basically plug and play after that.
Talking to Jamie I explained how I could use it and add a couple of cameras cover the whole property so its going to be a little side project to install what I’ve got and add to it as and when?
Odd fact while I practiced setting it up i got it all running in the bedroom and Jamie suggested letting it film us all night! Fascinating as it sounded we created a yawn movie with undubbed snoring lol
Today was back to normal, Lincoln got up for school at 6am I heard the cat at 07:02 so got up and fed the little fucker hoping to allow Jamie and Reagan chance to sleep in.
I got home at 07:40 to find Mom in the kitchen searching for her fix of coffee so no lie in for her. Bouyed by the rest though she was somewhat perkier than I’d expected and although she didn’t move very far from the bedroom for most of the day had to endure route canal work at the dentist and take Lincoln to the doctor before she got to spend the rest of the day working on her bible college project.
We walked to the pub at 5 for Billy’s walk before cooking tea and spending the rest of the evening watching masterchef.
Reagan had to be at school for 11:30 after such a long tiring weekend in Poland so rose late showered and got on with her day like any other day…