Establish my Everyday Life before adding new things

resigned today. Could ba an opportunity to change things around a little. I could put a couple of Estonioan Au Pairs in my luggage I suppose….....

must stop daydreaming though

Am I becoming obsessive? Any way installed a large blackboard affair in the Kitchen, (crafted by the fair hand of le Broc) for the writing of important stuff not to be forgotten by the goblins and me. So far original purpose of board has been usurped and we have some very fine chalk drawings of Thomas the Tank Engine and his possee with not much room left for notes. Think I need to sign write a motto or something on the top I wonder if there is something short and pithy in Latin for “Nobody is to wake the grumpy old git before 5 am on pain of death, especially on Saturday morning being small cute blonde and two years old never ever exempts you from this rule”

popped off with a domestic crisis and won’t be around tomorrow. Must put something in the contract about staff not having a life outside work hours. Perhaps I can enquire whether the Captains of Industry I’m going to see tomorrow would mind if I brought Bunty and Badger along to the meeting?

in a rather natty design by my own fair hand. That should keep the good ship Brocarosa set fair for the paradise shore of totally organised island

doing just fine, in fact very fine. So far a reasonably workable everyday routine established to build on. Could escape from Chaos be imminent, it’s looking hopeful

She came back today and all small people still have all limbs intact. This can only be counted as a success.

started today. Will she come back tomorrow?

Something to think about. I thought Id’ just make a note of this here before I lose it. I was looking at article in Dwell an American magazine (http://www.dwell.com/inhabit/dwellings/3448511.html). It was about an family living in a low cost, low impact house in the Irish countryside. One particular paragraph summed up something that has troubled me for some time, although being so thoughtless/inarticulate have never voiced it:-

“We didn’t want to be saddled with a large mortgage,” Stevens says. “Irish people nowadays tend to buy expensive houses that drive both members of a couple to work full-time to pay off the loan, while the children need childcare. Through inflating house prices, presto—the government doubled the GNP, because there’s twice as many people working. So owning a house becomes the driving force behind economic growth or screwing up people’s lives—whichever way you want to put it. It’s a chain reaction that keeps people working hard and not thinking very much.”

Even more true in this country.

spend some time on Sunday looking “at the way I live my life and do something about it” Nanny decision time included. Solid foundations. Anyway as it’s Saturday, it’s time to crack open a few bottles of Chardonnay swing on those beautiful curtains and wonder at the stars twinkling through the rafters of the semi tiled roof.