A blustery Mary Poppins kinda day!

What a day and it's not even 5:30pm yet! Went into work this afternoon where Anne told me what an awful morning they'd had with kids screaming, kicking, peeing and pooing themselves and how they all just really wanted to go home. We hoped the afternoon would get better, but it turned into quite an interesting one.

The kids come in at 12:30 and by 12:45 they were so noisy and horrible that Anne had shouted at them loads and we had to put the climbing frame away coz they couldn't cooperate. Anne and I took them to do register during which we heard Ivy and Asia screaming from the kitchen - the shed had started blowing away!!

Quick interlude to explain the shed situation... over the summer we got a new shed coz the other one had mice. It's made of corrugated iron and a bunch of Dad's put it up. They didn't do a great job, so Anne and Frances' husbands came and had another go. The shed leaked and we've been on at Argos coz it's faulty and generally crap.

So when it detached itself from its base and started taking off it was kinda scary. So we've got loads of excitable screaming kids (24 to be precise) and a shed thats about to take off!! so there's 2 of us with the kids and the rest of the staff are holding down this shed. It was our manager's day off, but we had to phone her and she insisted she came in. We tried to call out someone to take it down for us, but that was gonna cost £200. We rang for the fire brigade, but were told there were 200 people in front of us!! So Lorraine (our manager) got a mallet out and started bashing the shed, trying to flatten it, so we could hold it down until the fire brigade could come. Then Frances remembered her husband was at home, so she called him and he and their son came to try and help.

So the kids are finally being picked up and there's me, Lorraine, Anne, Frances and Katy clinging onto this shed, while Mick and Paul are unscrewing it bit by bit. We had to empty it and take all the bits into the hall. It was kinda scary yet amusing all at the same time. And all the while its still blowing up a gale and the rains pouring down. What a day!!

So by 4:30 the shed was dismantled and in pieces in the hall, the contents were in the hall and we're sitting having a cuppa. And along came the firemen!! We had called to tell them not to bother, but apparently they just come anyway. But they were glad we'd managed to sort it coz they had loads more calls to go on.

So the kids aren't coming in tomorrow. Lorraine's given me the day off coz I stayed late and coz there's no kids. Everyone else will just be cleaning wet, dirty toys and taking the shed to the dump!

What a joy!