Chasing the Friday Afternoon Blues

Sometimes when I pick the kids up on a Friday we make executive and spontaneous decisions about what we will do. Afternoons when we pick up a take-away and a DVD and come home and get changed into our jammies are always popular.

However, the last two times we did this we were caught out, most recently by sister-in-law who thought maybe we were all sick, but more embarassingly first time by a lady from a government department who arrived at 4 o'clock in the afternoon to carry out the latest stage of a survey we have been involved in because the Dolly Molly is a millenium baby.

Now, that was embarrassing. AND more importantly my chips were frozen by the time she'd finished.

Recently we have come up with an alternative Friday afternoon activity. It involves closing the blackout blinds in the playroom, plugging in SingStar on the Playstation, turning on the disco light-ball and standing on the sofa singing our wee (and not so wee!) hearts out.

Today was such a day, rainy, windy, cold, windy, wet and windy. So we had a SingStar session to cheer us all up.

It's a terrible thing to be able to admit, but I've discovered I do a pretty mean version of Bucks Fizz 'Making your Mind Up!' The very knowledge of that useless fact should be enough to keep any prospective visitors away from our door on a Friday - just in case!