I got up, bottled my quince jelly, then prepared the quince liqueur I'm making. Then I finished my entry for the Bookseller's essay competition - not a hope in hell, but a great essay anyway!
Then I discovered I didn't have to do Deer Park - but took stuff over to Sheree, and then went to a supermarket to buy useful things like tea and bacon, and then to the farm shop for a vast sack of spuds. When I came home M and I went to Chatham to have a meeting about Finn - which was a bit tricky, because Finn was being tricky. We went home for tea, and I let F go out for half an hour to have a smoke. Then he helped me defrost the freezer - after 3 years I suspect! And then I photographed the ice pile and had jolly banter on FB.
So, although I haven't made any money today (I did investigate selling books on Amazon), I have done some literary work, some family/emotional work, and some domestic work, and some pre-Christmas preparations and had a bit of a social time. So all good really! Now, cook supper and have a drink with a quiet conscience.
Unfortunately I was not allowed to enjoy my quiet conscience, my gin, my supper, my coffee or my evening, because Finn, enraged at being grounded until he tidied his room spent a great deal of time snarling at me and bullying and cajoling me to unground him. It was really horrible - no amount of speaking to him about it would deal with the problem, eventually M sacrificed his evening to cleaning up with Finn - I don't feel good about that either. What an unpleasant end to a constructive day.
Then I discovered I didn't have to do Deer Park - but took stuff over to Sheree, and then went to a supermarket to buy useful things like tea and bacon, and then to the farm shop for a vast sack of spuds. When I came home M and I went to Chatham to have a meeting about Finn - which was a bit tricky, because Finn was being tricky. We went home for tea, and I let F go out for half an hour to have a smoke. Then he helped me defrost the freezer - after 3 years I suspect! And then I photographed the ice pile and had jolly banter on FB.
So, although I haven't made any money today (I did investigate selling books on Amazon), I have done some literary work, some family/emotional work, and some domestic work, and some pre-Christmas preparations and had a bit of a social time. So all good really! Now, cook supper and have a drink with a quiet conscience.
Unfortunately I was not allowed to enjoy my quiet conscience, my gin, my supper, my coffee or my evening, because Finn, enraged at being grounded until he tidied his room spent a great deal of time snarling at me and bullying and cajoling me to unground him. It was really horrible - no amount of speaking to him about it would deal with the problem, eventually M sacrificed his evening to cleaning up with Finn - I don't feel good about that either. What an unpleasant end to a constructive day.
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