Loving the snow covered tress and the snowmen that were built last night.
Perfect scenario this morning. After a night of waking up fairly often and catching snippets on the radio about the weather, and becoming convinced via dreams that the head had announced school was open today, I woke with alarm at 6.30. Looked out of window, still snow. Checked phone and emails - nothing. Listened to weather news on radio. Prepared to get up (with difficulty) and then the wondrous text came from my mentor: 'School closed - have a good day! x'
Fervoured/fevered (?) moments of excitement texting others and generally had a big smile on my face. Lay back in bed and planned to get to sleep but took a while, over half an hour. Now awake, have run outside bare foot in the snow in excitement!
Plans or ideas for the day:
- Wander in wellies to the parks or some such place.
- Go shopping and think about spending my christmas vouchers.
- Watch ER
- Lunch at Georginas - hope it's open!
- Tidy bedroom.
- Find out how to do a heading banner on my blog.
- Crieff diary.
- Print photos.
- Pluck eyebrows.
10.45am - success one of the day that wasn't even on the list. I have confirmed that there is no spell check now. Instead I am going to try to use the firefox spell check at the recommendation of the Real Blogger Status. Have not had good experiences with Thunderbird spell-check so we shall see...
11am - firefox doesn't check my spelling????????????????????
11.03am - woop woop!!!! I have added a dictionary and now it checks the spelling! Time to get showering.
11pm - wow! Good day indeed. And... mega excitement - no school tomorrow! So although not many of my things were achieved on my list today, I can have another go at them tomorrow!
The day looked like this:
- Bizarrely did some rather good and deep cleaning of the kitchen - not an entire clean but still quite proud. Would like to have a go at the lounge tomorrow.
- Met a colleague for lunch in Georgina's (check!), still loving that Mexican chicken wrap.
- Left photos to be printed (check!).
- We wandered round Oxford (in wellies, check!) and he had a camera so we were able to capture plenty of magical moments. We wandered into Exeter where there was a great snowman in the quad and went up on the 'balcony' in the fellows garden for great views of the Rad Cam. And managed to be highly immature throwing snowballs down at the unsuspecting people below. We slipped and slided (him more than me!) onwards to the Uni Parks via the forecourt (?) of the Natural History Musuem where we entered an igloo and built a snowman on a bench. Well, he built it really while I did a giant snowball. Also discovered was next to housemate and her colleagues who were building a snowpig! Onwards at dusk to Christchurch meadows looking beautiful. A stop off at Sainsbury's when the glorious text came. A cup of tea and warm up back at mine.
- I then had time to change and eat before heading to OUP for a jolly dancing session. Even pushed a car that was skidding outside Worcester on the way which completed the magic of the day.
- sound of walking in snow.
- quietness of snow. (oxymoron??)
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