A Pleasant Saturday

It's Saturday afternoon and I've been having a relaxing day so far. What a contrast with a rather stressful day at work yesterday. I won't say too much except that it involved our unauthorised departmental toaster, 3 fire engines and the evacuation of 1800 pupils and staff. The toaster was being used for pupils' life skills but the fact is that toasters are banned in school and as depute head I had to meet with and apologize to the head teacher and the firemen, who were very understanding and pleasant to me about it. The rest of the day was particularly busy and I ended up doing paperwork well into the evening.
So back to Saturday. First of all James brought me my porridge in bed, always a lovely start to the weekend. Then he did the ironing while listening to some of his favourite music (The Yes Album and Yes Close to the Edge) while I took Ally and Davie to collect their glasses from Carol & Craig's. Their prescriptions have both changed a little, and they were pleased with their new frames. Ally mainly wears contact lenses but he needs glasses as a back up and to give his eyes a rest. Then James and I went to Morrisons to get our passport photos taken, but annoyingly the machine was broken and the photos were blank. So we went to Spar. James lost patience while I was brushing my hair in the booth and his hand appeared in through the curtain and pressed the "ready" button before I was finished so my brush was in the first photo! I don't know why I bothered putting on make up for the photo, you are not allowed to smile and you have to tuck your hair behind your ears. Our photos both looked like criminals' mug shots.
I popped round to Marjory and Forrest's with Jenny's birthday present - it doesn't seem like 13 years since she was born. She seemed delighted with her Abercrombie & Fitch t-shirt, I also gave her a copy of Diary of a Parent Trainer. We had a chat about London, where they will be going at Easter.
Lunch with Ally and Davie before Al went into town to meet friends and Davie started rearranging all the furniture in his room to make it better for playing Kinect games on his Xbox 360.
Later on today we are going to the Aye Write Book Festival with Heather and Ewan to see Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer, then Sarah Waters. We first went to it last year and I'm really looking forward to going again. Yes, a pleasant weekend indeed.