Morning…There’s a hole in our garden dear Good morning Gang, dear Good Morning Gang, there’s a hole in our garden dear Good Morning Gang, there’s a hole!…the words don’t really flow but building work has started on our kitchen / diner extension and in case you hadn’t got the picture there’s a hole and its huge! Winston must now stay in his run, husband must now be dressed and decent earlier, my front lawn must now be a mud pile, a sand pile, a brick pile with no grass visible and I must sadly be prepared for mess inside and out :-/

First our final performance of the Nativity to parents..hoping for no big sneezes, no key people absent, no forgotten words and no mishaps with children, props or technology!  Then later this evening Beauty and the Beast press night. Hoping for…the same!

It might only be Tuesday but it has been a long term, everyone is losing the plot and saying things that can be misconstrued or are ridiculous.

Misconstrued comment number one “You’ve lost a flap”..of course my colleague was in fact referring to a door plastic flap but the minds of colleagues were smutty.

Misconstrued comment number two..”Have you got any bun cases?”..of course referring to..

Misconstrued comment number three..after a conversation about wearing two pairs of knickers one underneath and one over the top to keep tights up it was decided that the over the top pair of pants could stupidly be referred to as muffin snugglers! A colleague bought in some delicious white chocolate and raspberry muffins yesterday and today she snuck out a tin from her cupboard and said “I’m a muffin smuggler”.. sadly we laughed.

Watching my colleague preparing individual name tracing sheets for each of the children I helpfully said “you will have to change the names”…what a ridiculous thing to say, of course they will! As I said its been a long term and we need to break up.

Morning…Son is feeling sorry for Winston the rabbit with these cold nights so for the second night on the trot he has spent it inside not out. He vacated his double storey mansion with night time ground sheet covering to take up new but hopefully temporary night time diggings.. a cat litter box in a bedroom of our centrally heated house, just in case he gets a wee bit chilly!

Husband feeling sorry for me and “I’ve got too much to do!” so took me to buy a Christmas tree. Feeling sorry for himself and his hurting shoulder he promptly fell asleep on the sofa!  After decorating the tree and doing housework my back went so I felt sorry for myself. Son needed picking up from Windsor and having done three shows in one day I felt sorry for him…husbands sorriness for anyone disappeared so he wanted him to catch the train.. its down to me! I asked husband whilst I was out chauffeuring to empty the washing machine and when I got back an hour later you guessed it…sigh…yes, he now needs to go to the Dr on account of failing shoulder, ears and brain…we are officially a pair of old crocks!

Afternoon…please add to Dr’s list for husband, failing legs and arms! I cannot see why else a large cardboard box was left at the back door for me to trip over instead of opening the door and putting it in the recycling bin just outside. You never know what might get inside the box and get thrown away…

What is it with cats and the places they find to sleep in or on?

Not sure there is a part for a CAT in Fiddler On The Roof..

Friend- We’ll find one!

Friend- Bit crowded on the roof!

Friend- Tiddles On The Roof!

Mother -In -Law- Fiddler And Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

Friend- ooo, I feel a musical mash coming up! Animal themed.

Husband- Fiddler On The Hoof, The Sound Of Moosic,

Friend- Cats

Friend-Brilliant Andrew!

Husband- Whiskers Down The Wind, Camelot

Friend- Feline On The Roof

Me- A Tail Of Two Kitties

Friend- Purr Chance To Dream

Friend- Please stop!!!

Morning…Travellers didn’t fall off their trunkies, angels looked gorgeous holding their tea lights and turning at the end to show the word ‘Love’ and a heart in glitter on their angel cape wings, headdresses and mouse tails a bit of a distraction for small children but first costume run actually went okay which was a relief!

Today we perform to our first audience..the Pre-School!

Just dropped both sons off at the station as youngest son has to be at Windsor Theatre by 9.30 am….just as well I shouted at eldest son twice as silence was followed by an expletive which gave me the impression he had fallen back asleep! However both caught respective trains and it is Friday!

Morning…Tired but sadly no excuse for being out of touch with the modern world. Yesterday a colleague who had bought a Shelf Elf told me all about the naughty things he did..my face looked confused and I said “does it do it all by itself?” I was imagining a high tech robot of an elf! Instead..

Then a discussion on advent calendars and someone said ” My friend got a benefit one”…there was me imagining an overly generous benefit office handing out advent calendars at Christmas. Instead..

and at £50 each not sure its one to give away!

Fiddler rehearsal last night and more Nativity today..must try and get with it!

Good luck to son and cast with opening night of Beauty and the Beast at Windsor today.

Morning…exhausted by 7 am..did the station run with several minutes to spare..a miracle! Bought petrol, lunch and sitting in the staff car park in the dark with one other car..a miracle! Yesterday house was a film set and my job was supplying props, wigs, clothing out of the “you have everything in your roof”..a miracle! And guess what..I found the army shirt that my two sons searched for when back was bad and vowed was no where to be seen..unfortunately the day after it was needed…a predictable miracle!

24 days…my boys of 19 and 22 can now have a chocolate from their advent calendar..they wanted one last week so a miracle they have not already started on them!

Friend- sounds to me like you are fast using up your quota of Christmas miracles…leave a few for the rest of us!