Alchemausterity II

Alchemilla

badmemory said:

Perhaps I should add mine was only english homework that was the problem, with a father who had been an english teacher standing over me criticising all the way.  He did more of my homework in the end than I did, which did not help at all.

That sounds soul-destroying for a young person. 

Alchemilla

savingholmes said:

Good luck with resolving your routine. Build nice fun things in for you that help you nourish your soul - so that you can then continue to support your family. Remember to ask for help - a lot - more than you think you need. We often only realise what we needed after someone has done it and we kind of sag with relief...

I felt that sagging with relief when I no longer had to do the 90 mile round trip to hospital each day.

Alchemilla

Grooming the horses nourishes the soul, @Karmacat.

Didn't do an hour in the kitchen but did make very good cream of beetroot soup for DH.

badmemory

Alchemilla said:

badmemory said:

Perhaps I should add mine was only english homework that was the problem, with a father who had been an english teacher standing over me criticising all the way.  He did more of my homework in the end than I did, which did not help at all.

That sounds soul-destroying for a young person. 

Just to add a bit of light relief.  In my GSE year my maths teacher set the homework one day & I am prepared to bet that none of you have ever heard this before, & said badmemory do not do this homework as I expect you have already done it before anyway & concentrate on your english homework instead.  She was actually right as we had had that text book for almost a month already & I had already done everything in it.  She just knew me too well.  That started in year 3 when we were doing geometry (not my favourite by a long way).  She said something along the lines of the ratio of that to that is the same what else can you tell me about this.  So having by then on various occasions being told to put my hand down she was not going to call me, I just sat there looking around - no-one still no-one until I just spoke up come on it's obvious that to that is also the same.  Fortunately I was popular enough (don't know why) & weird enough that the worst that happened was everybody burst out laughing.  A few comments of Oh Miss what did you expect.  I was very lucky in my grammar school I could have been horrendously bullyed, but never was, but then I did know how to wield a hockey stick & before that a shinti stick & unlike my friend didn't lose my front teeth.

savingholmes

Glad the horses help calm you down. I love the Sandra B film where they use horses to help rehabilitate addicts... It helped me see how the rhythmic stroking could work. Before I always just thought it was hard work and wondered why anyone would do it... Unless of course I watched a flim like Blk Velvet. Then of course it was horses all the way...

FloppyDisk

I keep meaning to catch up with your posts but find another 5 pages each time I check - life moves very quickly in the Alchemilla household!  Glad DH is home and agree grooming sounds lovely, I don't actually think I have done it in years - I only have time to throw tack on and go!

Alchemilla

@badmemory what's a shinti stick?

@savingholmes must check out the fillum.

@FloppyDisk lovely to see you. Xxx

Today I have done the school run and counselling, caught Daughterofsatan twice (she has found another way to escape the garden) and recycled my teachers' planner for firelighting.

I need to tidy up next lest the district nurse be aghast and ring social services, make DH soup for lunch and crack on with the eternal washing. There is also that hour in the kitchen...

badmemory

Shinti is a game very like hockey that we played in junior school.  The stick is very like a hockey stick too.  The rules are more lax though & raising the stick above the shoulder which I believe is forbidden in hockey is not or certainly was not then.  Which is how my friend lost her front teeth!

Alchemilla

badmemory said:

Shinti is a game very like hockey that we played in junior school.  The stick is very like a hockey stick too.  The rules are more lax though & raising the stick above the shoulder which I believe is forbidden in hockey is not or certainly was not then.  Which is how my friend lost her front teeth!

Every day a school day! Thanks for the explanation.x

Alchemilla

Morning. Today I have made curried cream of parsnip soup for DH and emptied and cleaned the redundant fish tank in the kitchen.

The fish tank has looked at me balefully ever since the last fish sadly died (to borrow some Tory speak) in the summer.

It took less than an hour and the space will be used for the coffee machine which will be moved to make way for Ember.

I have spent the morning thinking it was Tuesday. I need to go back to work!