Suddenly Monday!

Where did the weekend go?  DH is away and I have spent the weekend keeping bear company.  Bear does not approve of a lack of DH and is missing him.  I've kept him busy and we have been reading our way through the first of the Wombles books as a sort of story comfort food, but it isn't the same for bear.  

Saturday was particularly tough.  Not only did bear bitterly miss DH but the computer didn't work.  I was hoping to sleep until eight but a desolated bear woke me up at 7am.  Bear was very clear that this would never have happened if his father had been present.  He had checked all the cables and tried unplugging it and then plugging it in again and it still didn't work!  I got on to the phone to my brother and begged.  

Brother was awesome.  He works IT support so he looked at the computer, sighed, pressed a button and it was working again!  Something something something restart, apparently.  Bear understood it.  I just handed over coconut cookies and a lot of gratitude.

Yesterday I did some more practice with bear's pal's mum with the lads in the back.  I swooshed into parking bays with smooth elegance.  Bear and his pal insisted on adopting the brace position until I threatened them with disciplinary tickles.  

Today was another lesson.  Still no casualties.  I was driving at the time I would have been picking up bear, and it was busy.  It's going to be quite a challenge.  I was glad to get home to feed bear and a different pal and then give bear utter reassurance and some sort of stern words added because he has lost his book and the homework, due in tomorrow, not only hasn't been done but he doesn't really understand it.  I have been fighting to keep all bear's books in one place, but it's like trying to bail the sea with a sieve, so this way I hope bear will get some motivation.  

Writing stuff - I will be posting about this most of this month, but I know that it's not everyone's cup of tea, so I'm putting it at the end and you can stop reading whenever you see 'writing stuff'.  There's nothing from me today but someone has produced a YouTube video trailer of their new book!  How cool is that, trailer here.  There's some spooky recommendations here.  And for the pic, I'm going to include one of the quotes from the Glass and Ashes anthology which includes one of my stories.