This morning I made the startling discovery that this isn't the first time I have done JEDI July! Back in the days before Lydia and I were lucky enough to have computers at our disposal, we both used to keep written summer holiday diaries. These diaries usually began on August 1st and continued until whenever we ended up being too far behind to bother catching up. However, for some reason back in 2000 I started one in July and this goes right the way through from the 4th to the 31st.
Naturally, I shall therefore take an extract from the corresponding 13th July for your reading pleasure:
"Mum picked Kevin, Lydia and I up at 3.10pm. We went home but, once again, me and Kevin didn't play football. We watched fifteen-to-one before we watched 'the worst witch' at 4.35pm, which was the programme we really wanted to watch. Kevin went home at 5.00pm and then I went upstairs to play with my electric train track. No sooner than I had done this, Lydia called for me to play skipping with her. I had tea, played more with my track and packed it away. Mum put gel on my verruca, bed at 8.40pm."
I am pleased to report that nothing from this extract (apart from tea) now forms part of my day-to-day activities!
Having had a very quiet Monday morning at home, Lydia and I drove down to the village at around 2 as L wanted to have a look in a few charity shops for books on her uni reading list. Despite not being able to find the ones she wanted, we spent an enjoyable half an hour searching, and even I flicked through a book or two (shock horror!). After this we were going to get an ice cream but it seemed a little too cold so we instead bought some candy sticks and strawberry laces from Martins and ate them on the prom. While we were sat there it became a lot warmer so on our way to the library I decided to pop into another newsagent to get some ice creams after all. Lydia had a quick skirt around the library for books without success then joined me in eating our ices on the bench outside.
We then went for a mad drive around Blackfield and the surrounding area, during which I was delighted to be the recipient of a wave from some random dude by the roadside! After so many occasions where Andy, Lydia and I have been surprising innocent bystanders with our beep and wave antics, it was fantastic to have the message returned for a change (albeit minus the beep)!
On return home I decided to begin the daunting task of clearing out the bottom shed. (I had intended to make a start this morning but had become distracted and ended up procrastinating, as always.) As there were so many cobwebs I thought the best course of action would be to get absolutely everything out, so that I could purge the shed and its 'furniture' of all undesirable ming. This not particularly well though-out idea led to the creation of the scene below...
That's right - a huge pile of muddled mess. And there was more rubbish out of shot.
Naturally, when it came to putting things back in place after tea, everything I wanted to access seemed to be at the bottom of the pile. There was also a rather a lot of old toys and battered equipment that we no longer want or need that seemed always to be in the way of the useful stuff. However, after much huffing and puffing, hoovering, lugging things around and trying to arrange stuff so it all fitted, I finished up with something noticeably more organised than it had been before I started, which surely means it was worth the effort.
The question now is - will it last???
Anyhoo, I'm off as getting to bed on time last night was actually very satisfying and I would certainly benefit from repeating the exercise. Catch you later dudes!
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