Was lovely 🙂
The weather looked a bit grim but as we drove over to Slindon it brightened up and was dry if not particularly sunny. It was so mild today too – no need for hats and gloves and actually barely a need for coats. 🙂 We arrived a bit before Chris and Julie so we went into the woods and found a fallen tree which Davies tried to climb up. He got a fair way up so I had a go but used the wrong technique and tried to climb up rather than walk up. Ady had a go and did it straight away, leaping off just before Chris and Julie appeared to witness his splendid feat!
The children all ran ahead, Ady and Chris walked on talking about work and benefits and Julie and I walked together chatting about various things including her offering a morning a month childcare to help me out with my library childcare issue. 🙂 This is very good news as it leaves me with just one morning a month not properly covered, which hopefully between Ady and my Mum is manageable. I have emergency care sorted for any afternoons my Dad can’t manage and I’m feeling hugely more settled about it all than I did this time even last week. 🙂 Chris headed off halfway round the walk and the rest of us carried on to our camp where we did a bit more camp building and then at Davies’ request carried on with our music making from last time. Except this time we had the camera to capture it all 🙂 I debated gathering likely looking leaves to brew up with but decided it would be equally lacking in caffine as my hippy teas already at home. We were so caught up in our hiyayayayaing that we sort of forgot we were in a public place but Ady said at least three lots of people walking their dogs heard the noise and took a different path through the woods rather than walk past us – no doubt picturing goats being sacrificed and a cauldron bubbling in the middle of our teepee structure! 😆
We left and came home to get roast dinner on. There was much debate about what to watch on tv which meant we ended up watching nothing – Ady spent some time in the garden mowing the lawn and chopping up logs for the coming week – we’ve started saving the sawdust from chainsawing logs and using it as cat litter for Candle, which is saving money and surprisingly efficient – far better than the shop bought cat litter we were using. Oh how we’ve taken to this frugality ;). I cut Davies’ hair and at her request cut a fringe into Tarly’s (which she has already pushed off her face so many times it has gone back into her hair, but I do have some locks to keep forever now 🙂 ) and they both had a long bath. Then Davies, Scarlett and I all got out a jigsaw puzzle each and completed them (Davies did a Dora one – very easy and then an alphabet one. We debated how he didn’t know alphabetical order and I called it out as he found the letters – later when he was playing on the compuer an alphabetically ordered keyboard came up for him to enter his name and it was very funny to watch his fingers automatically going to where the letters would be on a qwerty keyboard instead – although I can see the purpose of the alphabet for filing, dictionaries and alphabet puzzles I reckon learning letter placement on a keyboard is probably a more important skill today actually.). Scarlett did a Wallace and Gromit 100 piece puzzle and I did a schmuzzle puzzle where every piece is the same interlocking shape. The children ended up coming over to join in with mine. Really must add to our puzzle collection – they are both into them at the moment and easily able to do 100 pieces and above – another reason to get a table eh?! 🙂
We had roast dinner while watching The Cosby Show which I used to adore and the kids really liked, I drank lots of cherry Coke to bring my caffine levels back in line, then Davies played Zoombinis and Tarly watched Aristocats (her current favourite film). I joined Davies in playing Zoombinis – he’d chosen to try the hardest of the 3 discs and was making an admirable effort and didn’t take too much assistance to get some of the trickier logic bits. Tarly did some more jigsaws and then there was a brief interlude of Goddard family craziness (possibly brought on by caffine rush in my case) of us all singing various songs including Lion Sleeps Tonight and U Can’t Touch This (MC Hammer) which led to me finding that on youtube to show the children the crazy trousers and has possibly coined the phrase ‘Stop. Hammertime’ in our house for the coming week. 🙂 They went to bed, we ate toast and I watched Lost.
I’m now killing time until the breakmaker finishes a loaf as it is smelling quite strongly and I’m concerned it’s overheating so want to wait until it completes the loaf so I can unplug it. And tomorrow, tomorrow I shall drink tea!
Astonishingly, we have now also run out of tea!
Comment by Merry — 19 February 2007 @ 9:15 am