My favourite saying at the moment is "I am nothing if not . . . . . ."  Makes me feel good about myself I suppose.

Well today I am nothing if not resourceful.

I don’t have the use of a car during the day, hubby needs it.  I’d already had a lift off my mom to the library and completely forgot that I needed to go to the butchers down the road.

When I mentioned to the children that we were going to walk I was met with one yes, one maybe and one no.  Plus our pushchair was still in the car with hubby.

Needing my lamb chops for dinner I had to get creative.  And yes I know I could have made them all walk, but wasn’t in the mood for any moaning or cries of "pick me up".

So I decided to get out the wheelbarrow.  Yes, that’s right the wheelbarrow. This was met with a lot of enthusiasm as you can imagine.  I washed it out, dried it and put padding in it along with two cushions and a blanket.

I managed to get all three of them in quite cosily and then discovered we had a flat tyre.  We found the pump, sorted it out and got back in again. 

I then held my breath in the hope that the wheelbarrow would actually carry the weight.  And took the pump for good measure.

I was pushing the equivalent of my own weight (goodness knows how those ants do it!) so had to stop a few times.  Luckily it was down hill to the shops and I had already agreed with my son that he would walk up the hill to save my back.  His weight alone is 4 1/2 stone.

We had lots of smiles from passing people and a few happy comments.  My sister told me they were laughing at me and called me a lunatic, a sentiment for which was echoed by my friend (the lunatic part that is). 

However, the children were really happy, thought it was a bit of fun and we now have a new toy to play with in the garden.

I shall worry about my bad back in a couple of days but you can’t say I haven’t done my bit for the environment.  The only carbon from us was of the dioxide variety from me panting there and back!