Another day, another film!
Today it was Ice Age: The Meltdown we’ve got the first Ice Age film on dvd and although it’s been watched I wouldn’t really say it was a favourite but this was the film the children enjoyed most so far this week.
We managed to leave on time to get to Brighton and park and dash into the cinema, I’d taken popcorn and maltesers with me stashed in my bag 🙂 We listened to Phil Collins all the way there with me singing very loudly and playing the drums on the steering wheel 😳 We took the same seats we’d had yesterday but the cinema was far less busy than it had been yesterday. We’d been spotting Home Educated people then and trying to decide what marked ‘us’ out and decided it was mainly messy hair and rainbow clothes (oh what a stereotype!) along with small groups and better manners (how cross do I get with the groups of schoolchildren with zero manners barging past littler children on stairs and in narrow corridors at the cinema!!!). Scarlett really enjoyed this film and ‘participated’ in it, gasping, exclaiming and saying ‘oh no!’ and ‘don’t die!’ in the appropriate places and deciding that ‘the squirrel is my favourite character’. Davies made several comments throughout which made me laugh / agree / smile accordingly. It was nice. 🙂 Davies and I also had a whispered conversation about the fact there really had been an Ice Age in past history during a slow bit of the film.
We talked about it a bit on the way back to the car with Davies planning to build an ‘Ice Age’ scene and us discussing making fimo characters to play with in it. We talked about our favourite bits of the film and laughed over a few of the funny bits again. We talked about mammals and how they are still around today, I mentioned that birthing live young and feeding them mothers’ milk were good indicators of mammals in much the same was as the walking on two legs is a carnivore and four legs is a herbivore rule to the dinosaurs – not exhaustive and with exceptions, but a good starting point. So we talked about examples of mammals we could think of. Then Tarly requested James Blunt on the stereo so we stopped talking and listened to him instead. 😆
We popped home as I’d managed to forget my mobile (again :roll:) and then headed round to Lucy’s. Julie, Jack and Maisie were already there so we joined the general melee and had a thoroughly lovely afternoon. Tarly had a potential moment which I managed to avert and deal with in a way I felt proud of, Julie, Lucy and I had various interesting conversations about sexuality, nature vs nurture, parenting and residential Home Ed get togethers. I do enjoy the time spent in that company and I know the children do too. 🙂
Julie, Jack and Maisie left but we trailed along for another hour or so before heading for home, which meant Davies and Scarlett had eaten another few sandwiches and didn’t need any ‘real’ food (not that I am in the habit of giving them ‘real food’ anyway 😉 ) so they had fruit for tea while watching Wallace and Gromit and were both fast asleep not long after 7pm. 🙂
I’ve had lovely email and IM chats with a couple of people, further increasing my warm fuzzy female friendship vibe (along with a couple of glasses of wine 😉 ). Tomorrow we have the last in our film fest with Polar Express which I’m about to read some reviews of so I at least have some idea of the plotline before we get there. And that will leave me pretty much all filmed out and glad of the chance to not sit in the dark watching animated animals with American accents save the world, learn all about friendship, families and loyalties ;-).