After feeling well yesterday – it’s a bummer to feel like I have a phantom hangover today. Phantom as I have done nothing to earn it… sigh… Perhaps feeling fine is too much to ask at the moment.
Hattie is due to return to fix something again today! When she put the new fittings on the bath the other week the waste pipe from the bath was not flush. Noticed that there was a new stain developing on the ceiling, so had a check & discovered this (drips when the bath empties). I tried to fix – screw back on – but I was over tired at the time & just got myself in a bad mood as I could do nothing with it. Tried again a couple of days later & found that it seems the screw threads do not match up… You’d’ve thought that something as universal as screw threads on plumbing pipes would be…universal – the same… but – it seems not… sigh. Perhaps I am missing something here. Whatever, Hattie has to take some time out to look at it again.
Again, there are new stains on the ceiling of the back room… There are so many stains now, it could be mistaken as part of the decor. It does not matter! Hah! they are coming to repaper & paint it all as part of the insurance for the pipe that burst the other month. It is only a week away that they come to start work now – so I guess it’s kinda important that the ceiling actually has time to dry out now…
Jack was in a ‘tidy’ mood when got home last night. Helping & tidying. He can be very industrious when he is in one of these moods & does not like to be put off his stride. For instance I got some water for him, as the water left over from washing up had been poured away – & he was offended & threw it to the floor… I’m not really sure he knew why – it was probably more the fact that the washing up water was poured away that had riled him.
Eve was in a happy – if not slightly clumsy mood. Tired really, as she had not had her daytime nap. She got upset having fallen over badly a couple of times. She is delighting in the use of nouns – picking up on what the names of objects are quite a lot now. She also got herself a sore bum (no sitting down in the bath) by filling her nappy 3 times in @ 1 & half hrs.
Jack was on about his ‘other tod’ again as he was in the bath & going to bed. It seems his washing machine in his other house is broken – it needs some twisty dust. We had a nice discussion about who might come & fix this broken washer for him. I do not recall whether it was to be (other) Hattie or (other) Jill. Anyway – the root of the problem of getting it fixed was the availability of ‘twisty dust’. The charity shop in town did not have any, (this might be the regular source) & the other charity shop didn’t have any either. Interestingly the other charity shop seems to have it’s door on the 2nd floor – so it seems that you get into the shop via a ladder (?). Specialist shops are no good either, it seems as the just don’t have the ‘twisty’ variety of dust…
To burst a bubble here – I think the ‘twisty dust’ may be something that he associates with the Dyson vacuum cleaner we have. The vacuum spins – the washing machine spins…
Did I not mention that Jack has an ‘other tod’ ? (We live in tod – Todmorden). He also sometimes has problems with his ‘little boys’ misbehaving. Whether these are truly imaginary characters or a sort of proxy empathising with us poor parents, I’m not really sure. I don’t know if there is a boy/girl he knows called Sam Waldren, but that is the name of one of his ‘little boys’ (although he may be a she…).