The Blog of the Frog

When I went to Six Acres there was a certain boy there who stayed with me most of the time and then a couple of weeks afterwards was walking past our house and recognised the car so decided to call in. Now I’m trapped! We have a cunning plan to try and see him off though. Fingers crossed it works 😉

Anyway, the reason I brought that up is because today was the second time I’ve been somewhere new and the second time I’ve attracted unwanted male attention! It’s not as if I’m attractive or anything…

So I woke up really early this morning and couldn’t get back to sleep, eventually I drifted off briefly and drempt about Selworthy, surprisingly! Didn’t last long and I was still awake far too early. We left the house just before 9am and arrived at Selworthy perfectly timed; we passed two of the mini buses and a taxi just outside the school. We were aiming to be there around 9am but to miss all the transport, almost all (if not all) the pupils arrive by minibus or taxi.

We left school and drove up to Yeovil, to Lufton College. There were two other schools due and we were the first to arrive. Everyone got their visitor passes with their names on and then after having drink and biscuits (whilst we waited for the other schools) we all went into a hall thing to listen to the introduction. One of the other schools still hadn’t arrived but we’d been waiting quite a long time so they decided to crack on anyway. After the introduction Selworthy split into two groups, with a staff member and a current Lufton student with each group. We’d brought the 9 kids, 4 staff (Martine, Denise, Di (assistant) and Phil) plus mum & I. Sonia, Joy, Rachael and Robert went into one group with two staff and mum and I, the other 5 and remaining two staff went into the other group.
When we’d been having a drink in the other room one of the Lufton students (who’s name was Daniel) had approached me twice and tried to drag me into the other room, calling me Carla which was a bit disturbing and I don’t know where he got that from! He wasn’t trying to get any of the others so I thought that was a bit ominous. When we were told that he would be the student with Selworthy I thought \”oh no\” 😉 There were 4 students so we had a 1 in 4 chance…Then the lady went on to say that another student (Chris – female) would be with another group, also Selworthy. Of course with my luck I was in the same group as Daniel!

We started our tour and he persisted in walking by me trying to talk to me about things all the time and ask if I was ok and did I need any help with this and that..etc. We went up and saw the pottery bit and car valeting place, then we stopped for a loo break and on our way back down to the farm we passed the other Selworthy group. I seized the opportunity and swapped groups! I think Phil and Di were quite amused…It meant I missed the farm animals and had to do the pottery and car bits twice but it was worth it! I talked to Phil most of the time anyway. I managed the whole morning with only slight wheeziness and pins and needles 😆

After that we went and sat outside to eat lunch, before I started mine one of the staff came up and asked if I’d like to go round the farm, of course I didn’t 😉 So we went down – they have friendly pigs! The goats were sunbathing on the rocks…Lovely smell of mice (domestic), I haven’t smelt in over 3 years! The pigs liked a good scratch, we were down there quite a while. She has 3 horses so she was telling me all about them – a 30yr old something I can’t remember, a Welsh Section B x Thoroughbred which she does driving with and a Welsh Section D x Arab.

By the time I got back they were well through their lunch, a lot had finished, but everyone was sitting around talking so I was ok. Then Daniel reappeared and kept trying to help me with everything! He was talking and offering to help with this that and the other, Phil was sitting close by and he was laughing, at least he found it amusing 😆 After Daniel tried to help me open my biscuit I ran off and sort protection from Di and Phil again! That worked, thankfully.

After lunch we got back in the bus (or car in my case) to go home. Phil and Di disappeared for ages doing something, in which time Daniel came to talk and say good bye. Did that, all’s well! Waited still longer for Di and Phil to come back and then Daniel reappeared to speak to me again! Then they came back so we could go – Di & Phil did a lot of saving me today 😉

We were meant to stop at the farm and have a look round before we set off home, but Di took the wrong turning 😆 so we just went straight back to school. Wednesdays are usually Cannington and whilst Di’s class are out one of the other classes comes in to use their classroom to cook (it’s rather like a self contained flat), but as we’d been to Lufton today we were back a bit earlier and they weren’t finished, so everyone went outside to play and they wanted me to come too, so we went across to reception to fetch a few things for the classroom that had only just arrived and then spent a little while outside and played tag. By then the other class had finished so they went back into the classroom for drink and biscuits and we chatted. I had a nice conversation with Robert and Simon (two of the new ones) about Cannington as they haven’t been yet. Most pleasant, they’re certainly a lot more able than all but one of last years leavers.

Di (teacher) wasn’t there today, she’s on a(nother!) course – the joys of deputy headship – so after they’d gone through for assembly mum asked Phil if we could come in Friday because Di (teacher) was going to ask Jane if it was ok if I came in on Monday afternoon to help with art and we don’t know if it’s ok or not yet. Plus any excuse to go up and see them 😉 So I’m going up Monday morning at about 10:30am just for an hour or so. Should be going to the library…

I think this is probably the longest entry I have every written…I’ll be interested to see how long this actually is when I hit post 😮

Hopefully I’ll have more sorting figures for you tomorrow 😉

I’ve been slacking, haven’t really done much in the way of sorting over the last few days. I’ve also moved a few petz onto floppy disks so I didn’t have accurate figures.
Now my figures aren’t 100% accurate but they’re more or less there, so let’s continue to the numbers 😉

197 on the laptop (below 200!) and 82 on the desktop! 82! Wheee.

Can’t quite believe I’ve come this far 🙂 Now I have very little deleting left to do, almost all adoptions, the hard bit!

Ideally I’d like to finish most of it today, though Cannington doesn’t start till next Wednesday now it should have been tomorrow so…

I’ve seen puppies! Our neighbours (well, the house next door to our next door neighbours…if you see what I mean) have two pups – 9 weeks, a black labrador x golden retriever and a pure golden retriever.

Bo and Derek 😆 Bo is the lab x golden (bitch) and Derek the golden (dog). They’re adorable! Derek is a biiig boy. Been ages since I’ve had puppies, Winnie was ’97, Callum ’98 and Emma ’99.

So that was my day, more or less. I felt really ill this morning but I don’t feel too bad now, just tired. Tired beyond the sense of tiredness any normal person feels 😉

I’m really disorientatated since term started, now it actually matters what day it is! On Friday I thought it was Monday and now today feels like Tuesday for some reason. At least that means I’m catching up…hopefully that’s a good thing…

No, not the soap. Yesterday I was lying in bed in my usual position, doing something on my laptop and I had my desktop on, so I could listen to Queen cds, when the doorbell rang.

Turned out to be our former next door neighbours! We moved about 3 weeks before my 7th birthday, but stayed in the same town, then they moved to Dorset not that long after. They have a daughter 16 months younger than me, whom I’ve always got on well with. We kept in touch but not as much of late and we haven’t seen them for about 2 years.

So that was good fun! Lots of catching up to do.

I miss our old house…well, more accurately I miss all the cats that lived in the culdersac 😀 There were quite a few round there and I used to spend a lot of time outside with one or more. I remember reading to them…:?

Last night at about 6:45 the phone rang, I immediately said \”Di!\” and t’was 😉 She was ringing from home. She said their toilets (no electric or anything yet) were connected now but the other classrooms weren’t so they had people coming in and out to use the loos and it was absolute chaos, but they’d love to see me! About 2pm Friday 🙂

So at 2pm on the dot (my timekeeping worked for once! Usually we never allow enough time, it always takes longer to get me ready than either of us think) we arrived. Parked the car, signed in, negotiated through the hall, which was in use, and went outside. Behold the new classrooms! Not really any noticable difference from the outside, except for the addition of some ramps on the fire exits. Useful really, means if there’s a fire now I won’t be stranded! (The old ones had steps)

I was so nervous for days before, but it was ok once I was there. I met everyone (though actually I knew most of them – Sonia, Daniel, Joy and Rachael were there last year, Ashley joined them a few times at the end of last year and Thomas I met at Six Acres, so that just left three – Simon, Robert and Adam. Simon I met to say hello to at the end of last year and Adam was pointed out to me so it was just Robert I’d never seen) and we were all sitting round in a circle talking. First of all we all said \”Hello, my name is [insert name] and I like [insert thing]\” then \”Hello, my name is [insert name] and I don’t like [insert thing]\”. I couldn’t think of anything for either – my brain doesn’t work that fast! And I couldn’t tell you what I did say if you asked me now.

After that they had some time before assembly so we all had drink (orange squash) and biscuit. I was sitting there just thinking to myself (though I suppose I wouldn’t really be thinking to anyone else…) and Joy thrust a cup into my hand which was rather nice! Even better when she came back a few seconds later with a biscuit 😉

Oh! Di, Phil, mum & I were talking about Six Acres because Di was saying they all seemed to enjoy it, whatever they’d done. So I was telling them all about it. Anyway, it transpired that they’d heard all about my attack on Friday and they’d said I’d had a heart attack 😆 Just like young children, can’t have any secrets! Anyway Di knows enough about me to have been able to guess what happened and correct them.
I think I’m just gonna say it’s asthma if it happens again and anyone asks, it’s similar enough to be passed as (if it’s not…don’t know that’s it not, could be) and far less complicated than trying to explain otherwise, especially as I don’t know what it is! People just assume it’s asthma anyway.

I feel so happy now, it was great to see them all again!

Heh, I’m so tired! I think this sorting is definitely bad for my health…

Gonna attempt to go to bed at 9 tonight and I need to make a doctors appointment (or rather get mum to :lol:) which’ll have to wait till tomorrow now.

Now my sorting is no longer just straight foward deleting my brain is exploding! At the moment I’m collecting up the files of my (as opposed to the 1200 I had on my computer which weren’t part of my kennel/cattery) petz and backing them up onto a cd and onto a floppy disk, then deleting all the copies off both computers.
When I’ve finished doing that I’m going to put 1 copy back onto both computers but just of the petz I’m keeping (going to put a lot into retirement) so my figures will go back up a bit.
It’s very satisying, despite being exhausting! 99 files on the desktop! Below 100! *Parties*

As for Selworthy, as I told you at the beginning of the holidays they were having their three temporary classrooms knocked down and new ones put up during the summer. They’d already changed the date the kids were going back from 1st Sept to 6th Sept because it wasn’t going to be long enough, and unsurprisingly come Monday 6th the classrooms were up but had no power of any kind (no lights, phones, alarms..etc) so even though they did go back on Monday despite that they’ve been going out in the bus and spending all the time out of the school, as obviously you can’t do anything in a room with no facilities.

So, obviously I can’t go and see them because they’re not there to see 😉 Mum rang on Tuesday evening and that’s when we were told about it, they said to ring back on Thursday (ie today) because it might be up and running by tomorrow. Mum rang again earlier and the secretary said that she’d pass the message on and get Di to ring back, 4:15pm and no sign…messages don’t always get passed on and Di wouldn’t be at school to ring if we waited much longer so mum rang again. Spoke to the other secretary this time who we know and she looked in the main building, Di wasn’t there so she said she’d go and find her and then ring back. 5:35pm now and nothing! Don’t think we’ll hear anything till at least tomorrow now…
Don’t want to pester them by ringing all the time but on the other hand, if Di hasn’t got the message…