Every day's a school day...

So, having totally messed up my plans for doing anything nice this half term, I spent most of the week sorting out my house, throwing things away, sending things to charity shops, visiting the tip etc. I learnt many things this week so fasten your seatbelts!

1. Diaries are there to be used and it is your own silly fault if you mess up your holiday by failing to consult one.


2. I need not buy any t-shirts for many months.


3. I need not buy any socks for many months.


4. It is extremely demoralising trying to iron a king-size duvet cover on a small ironing board.


5. Changing the hoover bag is a much more cost-effective way of improving suction than buying a new hoover.


6. Keeping loose change in your jeans pockets is not "easier" it only results in much time spent scrabbling under the bed retrieving aformentioned change.


7. I have far too many 2p pieces.


8. Sometimes when you tidy your house you can find £85 pounds in loose change, unpaid-in cheques and freshly washed notes; this is not to be sneezed at.


9. The dust under my bed is something to be sneezed at. So I did.


10. "Magic Lemon Pudding" actually IS magic (or at least some very cunning science).


11. According to the critics, my Magic Lemon Pudding is "fantastique".


12. Charity shop collection bags never come through the door when you need them.


13. Charity shops are always situated as far from public car parks as is physically possible.


14. My downstairs toilet is a good place to keep donated clothes until a charity bag arrives.


15. I need not buy any more necklaces ever (unless I find one in a colour that I haven't already got, or it is REALLY pretty, or I buy some new clothes and none of my current necklaces match).


16. I cannot play piano music in 3 flats. 2 flats - Yes, 4 flats - Yes, 3 flats - no.


17. My cake tins produce a cake that is slightly too big for my tupperware cake storing box, no matter how much you squeeze.


18. "Magic Lemon Pudding" makes a delicious and nutritious alternative to breakfast.


19. So does slightly squashed coffee cake.


20. Housemaid's knee is a very real problem for the modern girl about the house, even if she only does house work once every 18 months.

Well, that's about all I can think of at the moment but I'll keep you posted if I remember anything else.

Hmm...

So this was the BBC weather forecast for Lichfield today.

In case you can't read that it says "Friday's predominant weather is forecast to be sunny intervals."

How then would you explain this...

this...
and this?

All of which has arrived since lunchtime as by then yesterday's dumping had nearly gone. And before you ask. Yes I did have to go into work and yes we were possbily the only school open in the whole of Lichfield. We made a fabulous snowman though; he was nearly as tall as me! Obviously I had to go out and play in the snow as, having been brought up on the South coast, there was always a definite shortage of the cold, white stuff (as my poor sister is now discovering)