Winter-not-so-wonderland

I've had enough snow now. Can we return to bog-standard February sleet and cold please? The roads haven't yet been as bad as the previous snowy episode, by which I mean my car has not yet attempted to drift sideways into the door of another vehicle. Earlier in the week it was only the schools in the sticks which were closed, but at some point this morning Daughter's school appeared on the county list. It would probably now be easier to list the schools that are open - in fact I have a suspicion that the situation could be described as: state schools and pre-schools - closed; private schools and paid childcare - open. Cynical? Moi?

I went to work while Husband stayed at home, and tomorrow, assuming the school is closed again we'll reverse the roles. He'll take the car if so, having walked his bike most of the way yesterday. I can live with a day off work, especially if we work out early enough that the school is closed, and if Daughter is good enough to have a lie-in again. I longed to go back to bed this morning ...

I was a bit disappointed that Daughter's playdate for after school disappeared into thin air - I texted the mum to say we'd still have her at any point, and she was welcome to come round for a coffee, but they never materialised. I do wonder if it was because I made it clear (as I thought I should) that it would be Husband at home today. Well, I guess tomorrow if there is no school again I should try to come up with some educational things for Daughter to do. Today has featured Club Penguin (as does every day), some sledging, a walk to the shop and Cranium Hullaballoo, as far as I can tell. Another walk to the shop for rocky road ingredients sounds good, more Hullaballoo, some reading, and as little Club Penguin as I can get away with will do for tomorrow.

Money, money, money ...

Title refers to the Finance & Premises Committee, meeting this evening. However, this is the school blog, not the school governor blog, so what has Daughter been up to? She had a proper afterschool playdate, where I picked up both her and her friend. They played, they had tea, friend was collected (and threw a huge paddy because she didn't want to go home - am perversely flattered by this). She had school photos taken - whole school one day, and individual the next. They're very nice. I have a soft copy of the individual one, and need to order a copy of the whole school one. She went on a field trip. To a field. They had to take wellies in, named wellies, pegged together, in a named bag. I guess they have problems with wellie loss. I put her initials on the clothes peg I used to peg the wellies together, just to be on the safe side. And this afternoon she went on a reciprocal playdate, which also went very well, except at the end when her friend had a tantrum which I'm expected to see replicated at home any time soon (according to Husband it involved some new and innovative ways of misbehaving that Daugher won't have previously been aware of).

I wasn't there because I was Financing and Premising instead. We approved spending some money on some fun things (play equipment and books) and some dull things (insulation and checking out what needs doing with the roof). I was handed a FMSiS document in which I have to record my governor competencies. Obviously having got myself through the heavy-handed promotion process at work in May, and now being partway through converting my old-style (experienced-based) professional logbook in the new style (competency based) I am delighted to be doing this. Not. I think I can consider myself competent in 'understands finance and budgeting' and 'has numeric and analysis skills' and that's about it. Most of the rest is quite school-specific. Ah well.

Oh yes, Daughter had a half term as well, obviously. Husband took the whole week off, and I decided on the Tuesday that I could do enough hours Monday to Wednesday, plus the following Monday (when my parents had Daughter overnight) to add to a little flexi credit I already had ... and not work Thursday as well as Friday. So that was pretty good, especially as I wasn't very keen on cycling to work four days in a row (and on the Tuesday he didn't even take the car out, I am so furious!) She seems quite happy to be back at school, so all is well.