Week 412: Pratchett

The water butts are now out of water, except for the hard to reach dregs. I can’t wait for it to rain but when will it? On Wednesday I spent 3 hours unable to connect my work laptop to the internet, a problem that I was only able to solve by uninstalling and reinstalling the VPN. It was very annoying! I am still annoyed! 3 hours! We’ve introduced universal basic income for the kids. Both get £1 per week plus extra for doing chores. The chores are either 20p chores: sort washing, hang washing, water 5 plants, find things in their rooms to throw away, fill bird feeders or 50p chores: Water tomatoes, put away toilet rolls. Pay day is Saturday. This week the kids earnt 80p and £1.70 in additionals. E and I are currently reading our fifth consecutive Terry Pratchett book - The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents. If you read to any eight year olds on the reg I really recommend this one, along with Pratchett’s Bromeliad Trilogy. This one is so good I kept making up reasons in the…