Disorganised

Oh dear. Today could have been so simple: with both kids at all day sports clubs I could have got so much done. Sadly the morning was lost like this:

-Call K's riding school to confirm time of class
-Inform K she has, as I suspected and she denied, 15 minutes to be in the car.
-Sigh loudly (10 minutes later) when K reappears looking no different but asking if I've washed her jodhpurs.
-Drop K at riding school (in clean jodhpurs).
-Buy bread for lunches.
-Make C's lunch, drop C (with lunch, but no coat) at basketball.
-Make K's lunch.
-Pause for mug of tea.
-Drop K's lunch and coat at riding school, drop C's coat at basketball.
-Go to local supermarket and discover freezer full of venison.
-Transfer all venison to my freezer.

And all too soon it was time to collect Conor, and friend, from basketball where - despite a bad cough - he'd had a great time. He was particularly delighted with my idea (how did it take so long?) to burn some iTunes playlists onto CDs to play in the car. So he was able to have his favourite Bruce song on the way home (Born in the USA, of course).

Katherine had a similarly fine time at her horse-riding, particularly since she was on her favourite horse, and got to do lots of jumping. Normally she doesn't enjoy that much but a recent revelation that jumping while cantering rather than trotting is more comfortable has changed all that.

On the way to pick her up I snapped this, the edge of the grey blanket that has covered my corner of the world this afternoon - after a blustery blue-sky morning. There is a glimmer of hope on the horizon, with what looks like a decent sunset over in the mountains where another blipper lives. Perhaps that's coming our way tomorrow.

Lazy pasta dinner and some blip catch-up time. Long overdue. I've been a very bad blipper.