A lot of proverbs/cliches sprung to mind this week after what was really just a silly, stupid mistake!

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The phrases included remembering to read the small print, familiarity breeds contempt, sod's law and I could have kicked myself! To explain, it has been a busy couple of weeks with nativity plays and illness. However, I was extremely proud with myself for still managing to find some odds and sods (yes, another one!) of time to work on a poem for resources on the theme of new. It was, as always (!), the best poem I had ever written, so I jotted down in my diary to make sure to edit and post in time for the January deadline. (Yes, some of you may have guessed what's coming next!)

It wasn't until yesterday, when I rescued the latest writelink newsletter from my email bulk folder (I've no idea why the system repeatedly sends some writelink notifications correctly to my inbox and others incorrectly to the bulk mail/trash box) that the proverbs/cliches came into play, namely read the small print and familiarity breeds contempt. I'd been so busy that I hadn't noticed the deadline's were different this year and instead of January 15 (no December submission), it was December 15 ie two days earlier! well, you've guessed, I could have kicked myself!

Actually this phrase and sod's law, however cliched, nicely sum up much of the past week. My elder son has had a cold but seemed to have managed to fight it off...until the day before his nativity. He had the day off so he would hopefully be well enough for the next day and fortunately made it in for the performance, only for us to find out (too late to prepare our own cameras) that this year they had only videoed the dress rehearsal the day before instead of the actual performance! (He was fabulous too, biased reviewer though I may be!)

Still, my younger son's actual pre-school nativity was to be videoed so at least we'd have a copy of that (I'd made sure I'd checked with the pre-school that we would be able to get copies)...only he ended up in the audience instead of the nativity as he was crying so much he wouldn't go up on stage. Bless him!

Well, as they say, you've got to laugh. At least nothing worse has gone wrong, at least not yet...

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