is the place where I sit
there isn’t any other place quite like it
It’s not at the bottom
and it’s not at the top
but this is the place where I always stop.
By Kermit’s nephew Robin. A ditty for all occassions that one really, a bit like supercalifragalisticexpialidocious – a word to say when you don’t know what to say (and yes I imagine I have spelt that incorrectly 😉 )
But anyway…
Today started with logic games – we got this peg game thingy from the Wizard store yesterday, which is basically a simplified version of the mastermind game which I certainly had a version of as a child although I don’t think I ever bothered working out how to play it. So yesterday the children just played at making patterns with the pegs but this morning I sat and taught Davies how to play it properly. We chatted about what the techinique of applying logic was all about, played it ‘open’ a couple of times (e.g. with nothing hidden and every move discussed) – then he played at being ‘Code Defender’ (as the instructions insist on dramatically calling it) and I was ‘Code Attacker’ – then we swapped roles. We played in the same style as we play battleships with me explaining every move and walking him through it, but the idea is sinking in and he is learning all sorts of new words 🙂 I quite enjoyed it too and it is certainly good mental practise for some of the logic puzzles I have been messing with this afternoon ;-).
I spent some time IMing and phone chatting with various people and the children played with sticklebricks – Davies recreated all of the weird and wonderful pictures on the front of the sticklebricks boxes and I did several loads of washing, several loads of putting away clean and dry laundry and drank lots of tea.
Ali and Freya arrived for a very pleasant afternoon. I got some much needed reassurance about various things (thanks mate 🙂 ) and eventually the children did take themselves off to play. I introduced Ali to the delights of Holy Clothing and we drank more tea 🙂 And ate chocolate 🙂 The children did put on a show at one point although I confess to struggling to follow the plot there did seem to be one somewhere and it was complete with music using a saxoflute, which later got threatened with confiscation! They ended up watching Madagascar – always a winner!
Davies sat up a bit past bedtime as we happened upon Brainiac whilst channel flicking so he got to sit and watch that with us, sparking all sorts of science questions, ideas for experiments and so on – excellent educational viewing 🙂 When I went to kiss him goodnight he was in bed having drawn a replacement for the temporary tattoo of Alex the lion from Madagascar which he’d been sporting for three baths and had finally worn off (it came free with a box of microwave popcorn) with biro and then drawn a recreation of a can crushed by air pressure experiment on his other arm – erm, art and science anyone? 😉
Children asleep and rather good curry (with the end of the bombay potatoes made for Alison, Layla and Si last week and frozen) plenty of wine and we’ve just watched The Second Coming on video which arrived via ebay this morning. We watched this when it was on TV a few years back and it was the first time I’d come across Christopher Eccleston and Russell T Davies, so I was thrilled when they were both involved in similar capacities in the last series of Doctor Who (and am still mourning the passing of Christopher). We were living in Manchester, where it is set, at the time which made it all the more real as we knew all of the places refered to very well and it has been one of those things you see or read which just stays with you. (Similar to Last Train for me). I’ve sat glued to it and found it even better than I remembered. 🙂
And now my head is all spinny from wine, wearing my glasses today which always makes my vision go all trippy and altogether too much spiritual questionning and logic puzzles of all sorts!
Kermit?? I think you’ll find it has a slightly more prestigious literary source than the Muppets 😉 The Robin might be a clue …
Comment by Alison — 22 April 2006 @ 10:08 am
yeah, yeah AA Milne. But Robin used to sing it to a tune and that was the version I was doing 😉
Comment by Nic — 22 April 2006 @ 10:36 am
Holy clothing?? I never saw you as a holy clothing person. Where’s the cleavage?
Comment by Joyce — 22 April 2006 @ 5:10 pm
I couldn’t see it either!
Comment by Roslyn — 22 April 2006 @ 5:34 pm