Not much Monday

Hmm not feeling the love for today, I woke at 04:30 with Fabian bouncing around no amount of negotiating would make him go back to bed. Totally out of character Millie got up without a fuss but it was very clear very quickly they would not have both survived at day at home unsupervised, I asked them to feed the rabbits this simple task resulted in open warfare, from what I could decode from the shouting and crying Fabian kicked Millie making his shoe fly off so Millie retaliated by hitting him in the head with his shoe, now she claims she didn’t touch him but his ear was swollen and looked like it could catch fire it was so red, I had to listen to “but he did this and “she said that so had I had to crack out the old “I will bang your heads together” routine, clearly not having learned my lesson last week I took both children with me, thank god orders are a bit quiet this week!

I completed my six orders in record time and with Millie running them to the doors the deliveries were super speedy too. I had agreed to take some flowers to my friends sister on the isle of Sheppey which seemed like a good idea at the time as it could mean a walk on the beach for a second day running but having got there the tide was in leaving only a couple of metre strip of shore that was packed with dog walkers, fishing wallies and some boss eyed looking kids so even Fabe agreed nah too risky!

We were briefly very excited to find an open Starbucks drive thru but the problem with the van is it seldom fits through the unreasonably twisty turns they put in drive thrus and there was a height restriction that I’m sort of sure I could have got under but didn’t fancy risking decapitation, I mentioned walking through but Millie said she would die of shame if I did and it started to rain so I settled for breathing in a good waft of coffee and left the island.

I don’t think I mentioned that Fabian asked for goldfish for his bedroom as a birthday present, we had a spare tank so this was supposed to be an added bonus on top of his other bits but!!!! We had set the tank up ready for said fish and on the afternoon of his birthday I drove him up to a local Aquatic centre to select said fish. As we walked in my phone rang, it was Millie saying “while you are there can you get a new tank this one is cracked” there was a lot of f’ing and Jeffing from me as Fabe doesn’t take change well and now he can’t have his fish. So while I’m selecting the new tank Fabian has found the fish of his dreams but the skinny weasel in the shop wouldn’t sell us the fish because we were buying a new tank, I tried to explain the water had been conditioned and I just had to transfer it from the cracked tank to the new one he was having none of it, so I said can we pay for the fish (they only had 5 left and a lot of empty tanks) and I would pick them up in a week……..NO grrrr ffs so left £120 lighter with a tank, no fish and an upset child! Four days later we took a drive out to Rolvenden to World of Water now they had loads and loads of tanks but only 1 fish left, it was a Beauty but not they”crazy eye” type Fabe had his heart set on so the following day we went to Polhill garden centre the one and only time I’ve queued for what seemed an eternity but I knew they have a great fish dept so felt the queuing would be worth it, was it fuck they had about 10 goldfish and again no “crazy eyed” Moors so another wasted journey there were a few other trips and nothing so against all my misplaced principles we went back to where started and thankfully the original fish he wanted were still there so home we went with Barbosa, Jack and Gibbs came to their forever home with us……turns out their forever wasn’t that long!!! So I showed him to count out the pellets into his hand, I explained their stomach is roughly the same size as their eyes so they only need about 4-5 pellets each and I made sure that’s what he did for the first few days. So when I checked a few days later and the water was thick and brown I was speechless, I fished around in murky gloom and found Barbosa and Jack had gone to Davey Jones locket but Gibbs was hanging in in there! Fast forward to today and we now have new clean tested water and are ready for new fish this leads us to stop At Nottcut’s, they had a better selection but not a Crazy Eye to be seen but he did find some fancy ones he liked the fishy fellow hooked them out and took them to the checkout “ £37.00 please” “but there’s two fish in there not real gold I might add” I paid reluctantly and have warned if he tips the whole sodding pot in again I will cook those fish and he will eat them as they cost more per lb than turbot!!

Breakfast was branflakes, lunch a packet of crisps and dinner was sausages with mash, broccoli, crispy parsnips and carrots.

Should have gone to bed at 10:30 when I started to feel tired but Millie wanted to stay up and watch a film with me and we don’t do that as much these days so happy to make the most of it and let her choose, we both thought with it’s star studded cast The Dead Won’t Die would be worth a go, hmmm that’s another hour and a half of my life gone!! She then started on something else but I had to call time out so time for bed!