It’s going to be one of those weeks :-(

Not a great week so far. First off, we get a phone call on Saturday saying that michs nan had died Something that we had been expecting for a while (she has been very ill with cancer for a couple of years) but still something that hits you a bit. funeral in Cardiff on Monday
Then the oven door won’t shut while we are trying to cook sunday lunch. It shuts and then a couple of mins later opens about an inch. This means that if you don’t notice and just go and grab the controls to adjust the temp or something you find your fingers welding themselves instantly to the knob (oooer missus) while the oven goes mad attempting to heat the kitchen to 180C. Can’t complain really – the oven was shit and basically thrown in free with the kitchen about 6 years ago so I guess we have had our moneys worth.

Given michs mum is in Wales sorting out things for the funeral, we had a bit of a problem with Jake and picking him up from School. Helpfully, this morning while I was taking him to school his friends mum caught me up with “Hi Jakes dad, would Alex like to come around tonight for tea? Alex would love to show him our new house”. Excellent. Problem solved. I tootle off to work…

4:30pm this afternoon I get a phonecall from Mich. “You know you left a note saying go pick Jake up from Alex’s house?”

“errr…yes” I reply.

“He has moved. I assume you got the new address?”…

Bugger. All I know is that it has a loft conversion. Mich isn’t impressed with this snippit of information. In the end she manages to dig up their old phone number and helpfully, it turns out that they took the number with them. Sprog1 rescued.
Driving home I ring home as I vaguely remember there was something I was meant to pick up in tescos on my way home (Mich did ask me more than ten mins ago so of course, I had forgotten completely). “Bread. And strawberries.” Ah yes, I remember. “Oh, and the oven door has fallen off”.

Great. I get home to find the oven door in the conservatory on the floor bent to buggery. God knows what happened to it… I daren’t ask.

Finally, I attempt to wrap up michs present (her birthday tomorrow). I go to get the roll of wrapping paper that I have just bought in tescos. Shit. Where is it. I search the car and it is missing. I must have left it at tescos. How the hell can I loose a 1.2m long roll of wrapping paper when all I have is some strawberries and a loaf? Checking the reciept, I certainly paid for it :-/
Oh well, luckily mich has some birthday wrapping paper (good call – all I had found was easter paper) although she seems reluctant to wrap it herself.

Still, at least the oven no longer having a door gave us the perfect excuse to get an uber chinese. Not all shit then