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8 DAY IN THE LIFE

BACK TO SCHOOL

Christine Hamilton-Kelly, cook at Greendown Community School, downs tools and reveals all
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I usually wake just before the We have a mad rush at break
Rousell alarm rings at 6.30 a.m; accord- time. The children enjoy a bun
ing to how my arthritis hits me I or cake; keeps them going until
TV & Hi-Fi either bounce or crawl out of lunchtime - after the children
bed! Have a quick look at the the adults come for their coffee
Aerial weather hoping that the sun's and try to resist the home-made
Specialist shining - if it is the body feels cakes and biscuits (but often
instantly better - then an even
don't)! The rest of the team arrive
For free quotes and high quicker look in the mirror and (more puffing and panting!) and
quality, guaranteed pray that this week we 'win the we get a spurt on ready for lunch
workmanship, ring pools' so that I can have plastic and do our best to persuade/
813601 or 0836- surgery: I would settle for a face cajole the children into trying a
lift but prefer to have the whole salad or ploughman's. On the
242636 (Mobile)
body changed (anything resem- whole they eat quite sensibly, it's
bling Sophia Loren would be not all beans & chips!
OK!) We then have our lunch; I try
Downstairs, switch on the to have a salad or jacket potato
POLAR coffee-maker; the cats nearly & beans (high fibre!) Then I
Refrigeration Services trip me up waiting for their usually sweep the dining hall: I
of Swindon breakfast. Sooty, who is old and could delegate but feel that I'm
arthritic (a bit like me!) brings up In the stew. losing pounds pushing the broom
SALES - SERVICE
REPAIRS COMMERCIAL the rear and waits patiently for Christine getting the goodies ready around what seems to be as big as
& DOMESTIC the other two to finish before he for break and lunchtime. the deck of the QE2. I'm on my
24 HOUR attempts to eat his amidst much
BREAKDOWN On to the second cup of coffee own again in the afternoon; it's
COVERAGE sneezing and wheezing - poor and decide I must move if I'm quiet and I settle down to do my
boy! Then it's the birds' turn, going to do something with my books.
they wait like vultures on the hair this morning. Before I leave I promise myself every week
bean-sticks knowing that I'm the house I wake my other half that I'll do the shopping all in one
24 hr. Mobile no. 0860 522522 about to throw out the scraps and our daughter - saying three go, but inevitably we need odds
Office Hours (0793) 850665 from last night's meal, etc. - times "Are you awake": I'm sure and bits during the week, so it's
what a feast! I then sit and peruse they both say "Yes" in their a stop-off at the corner shop
9ink- worth (066641) 430 (anytime
last night's Adver and yesterday's sleep! (Carrefour) and to the library -
Telegraph. I arrive at Greendown at it's wonderful to have a library
around 7.30; it's so peaceful. My , on the doorstep'. When I enter
kitchen has a super view, I can the Link I promise myself I will
work and watch the teachers and start swimming again after work,
SAME DAY LOCAL students arrive, always getting a but haven't got there yet.
CALL OUT INC EVENINGS 'wave from Elizabeth and Wendy. At home, a quick bath to wash
Then into the strip: off with my off the smell of cooking, then
togs and don the overall, pinny read for a while, I find it helps me
and hat - Sensations gear has got wind down; then I'm ready for
nothing on this outfit - sexy, the next round, usually house-
smart but most of all serviceable. work and with a bit of luck an
Having seen nurses in the same hour in the garden (sitting if it's
'AUTOMATIC SPECIALISTS
ALL WORK hats I wonder why they look so hot and working if it's not).
'ALL WASHING MACHINES
GUARANTEED fetching whilst I look like a spin- If it's Guides or any other ac-
ster matron from a mental home! tivity Bryony does then it's a
* TUMBLE & SPIN DRYERS ETC.
LARGE Set to work: on with the bread separate meal for her: Brian
COMPETITIVE RATES
MOBILE STOCK ready for iced buns and dough- never comes home 'til 7.30 and
SWINDON 643785 nuts, then light the equipment so we eat them. After that, un-
kneeling on the floor with a less I'm picking Bryony up from
PROP: MR HUNT lighted taper in my hand - I feel somewhere, it's feet up, eyes
a bit like Florence Nightingale at on 'the box'. I have great im-
Scutari! Jameson's waffle keeps pulses to knit, but in the sixteen
SAUNA SUNBEDS SAUNA me company until 9 a.m. when years of our marriage have only
my assistant cook, Gaye, arrives. completed one cardigan, for
... HOME USE OR COMMERCIAL •.. I can see her pedalling up the hill Bryony; the rest are half-finished
... TUBE TESTING AND REPLACEMENT ... puffing and panting. (Thank in various carrier-bags pushed
Goodness I can be lazy now and under the stairs out of sight!
just get in the car! Mind you, I go to bed about 10.30 and
Gaye and my other ladies are as read for about half-an-hour,
fit as fiddles and lovely and slim then I lie and think about what's
- is there a moral there some- happened during the day and
where?) thank "Him upstairs" for giving
... RANGE OF MODELS TO CHOOSE FROM ••• By 9.30 we are often splattered me a pleasant day, lovely family,
•.. WEEKLY HIRE ... with chocolate from 'topping' super job and great colleagues.
TEL. SWINDON the doughnuts or sticky with "Should I do 40 iced buns or 60
EISURE TIME 772025 icing from the buns, and forever tomorrow? . . What about the
trying to resist the bits of flapjack shortbread? . . Have we got
that will stick to the corners of enough coconut squares or Welsh
OR V ISIT SHOWROOM: LYDIARD MILLICENT
the tins. biscuits? . . Z7777. .