Before we go
Thought I'd better do an entry before we go on holiday tomorrow. We're off to a rented cottage - well, more a renovated barn really - about an hour's drive to the south and west of here. Two sets of our friends from Mississauga are already in the country somewhere, and we'll be meeting them there. The other family will be arriving on Saturday. We're not planning on taking the laptop and I'm not sure how much computer or internet access there's going to be.
In the final stages of finishing the project I've been working on. I sent the last files back to the client on Monday, but there are still queries to be answered, that sort of thing. The stage of a project when you think it's never going to end. It's been a bit of a tricky one - a business book that's taken more time than I estimated for. To be honest, I've found it really difficult to fit the work in around Amelia's days at nursery. Luckily Ian has been able to take her out places on the other days so I can get some work done. She's spent a lot of time with him, which is nice, but if he were busy I don't know how I'd manage. I'll have to remember to allow more time in my estimates next time.
I wanted to tell you some funny Amelia things. She has a little rash on her hand at the moment - the doctor said it was an allergy but it's still hanging around so I told her we might have to go and ask the pharmacist about it. The next day, she asked me if we had to go and see the 'farmer' about her hand. Hee hee. She also calls apricots 'eight-o-clocks' and the stone in them is a 'scone'. Sometimes I don't want to correct her, because it's so cute.
We've noticed a change in Amelia lately. She's become much more confident in social situations. In a group of children, even in the park with children she doesn't know, she will now approach them and even join in with their games. Her key carer at nursery said she'd noticed this too. She said that Amelia had said more to her in the last week than in the previous six months. She reckons it's since Amelia has stopped wearing nappies - I wonder if there is a connection.
Summer solstice yesterday. I went to close the curtains at ten o'clock at night and realised it was still light. I always feel a bit sad when the summer sostice comes, because it means the days will start getting shorter. Bit of a 'glass half-empty' attitude, I know.
On Tuesday I went to a meeting of the editors' association of which I am the local coordinator. It encompasses all of Devon and Cornwall, which is a pretty wide area, and there are only about 20 or 30 active members, and only about 10 to 15 who turn up for meetings. This one was in Looe, Cornwall, which takes about an hour and a half to get to from here. The woman hosting it lives in a rambling cottage right on the coast, with a spectacular view out to sea, a small island directly in front, and the cliffs curving away to the right. Beautiful. Made for quite a long day out, though.
