Swimming lesson for Davies this morning. He only managed two swimming sessions last week despite good intentions on our part for daily swimming but did really well at showing no fear and being really very happy underwater. He can do a semblence of swimming doggy paddle style but can get around and doesn’t sink. Today he happily jumped into the pool and while he doesn’t do great at listening to the instructor (way too busy chatting to the children next to him :roll:) he does put 100% effort in. I really hope Scarlett’s name comes to the top of the waiting list soon after she turns five as I think they will very likely be in the same lesson if so and them learning together would be good for them both.
The weather was doing what it’s been doing for the last week or so and raining, greyly, but we decided to drive to our usual car boot sale haunt for a while anyway, only to find it was closed ‘due to bad weather’, as was the next one we drove to aswell. We needed more chick food anyway which is next door to that venue so we got some of that while we were there and then I phoned my parents to arrange to go over there for lunch. We popped home for a while before heading over to them.
We had a nice couple of hours, with us showing them the pictures of the week. Dad was on bad form, doing lots of teasing and loaded comments but I managed not to rise to the bait and after 3 hours we came home on the basis that the weather had changed and I could try and get some washing done and dry. Four loads are currently out on the line with a fifth languishing in the machine ready to be pegged out and a further six or so loads ready sorted to go in the machine. I’ve washed all the really muddy stuff, it’s mostly the smoke scented stuff and things like fleeces to go now. Hopefully we’ll have a nice-ish day tomorrow so I can get it all dry, otherwise I sense a trip to the launderette to tumble dry it all coming on before we all run out of clothes.
Once home the children played in the garden, Ady did some clearing of the triangle infront of our house which has been planted up with shrubs for years but we’ve decided to give back to lawn while I did lots of internetting :). I cooked the childrens’ tea, they went to bed and Ady cooked a roast dinner. We took some pictures of the chicks and let them free range for a while. Still no idea what they are, the pictures show their combs and wattles as far redder than they are in real life which was what prompted someone on my US forum to suggest they were roos last time I posted, but as I noticed at least one of them was starting to develop a cluck rather than a cheep I’m guessing it won’t be too much longer before we hear our first crow. The children loved them being out and free and both spent ages talking to them and picking them up. Ady now has it in his head he will slaughter any cockerels for is to eat so I am ever more desperate for them to be hens :lol:.
Tomorrow Ady returns to work, as do I, with a training session in the afternoon, followed by Davies’ Beavers session in the evening, so back to life with a thud. I’ve been in touch with YHA about Okehampton in November for the next NicCamps – if anyone is up for it and not already on the NicCamps yahoo list shout and I’ll send you an invite. 🙂