Hunting

There was a mammoth car boot sale on the localish green today so we headed over to that first thing. It was almost too big with no logic to the layout or organised rows or anything – car boot sales and the like should always be organised by people like Helen who like to categorise and order, in neatly formed rows, by type of merchandise on offer with clearly marked prices and so on. 😆 Scarlett and I went off together and Ady went with Davies as it is just not feasible to walk in a foursome round such bedlam. Tarly got 3 Barbie books including another annual which hasn’t been filled in at all so she’s been enjoying putting that right. Then we spotted a Barbie laptop (very similar to this one) – Davies has a V Tech one that my Mum got him from a charity shop ages ago and it’s one of those toys I’d have never bought him but have been surprised at how much he plays with it – often in bed at night or bringing it out in the car. The woman was telling me how she didn’t know if it even worked and how it had been in her garage for ages and then opened it up to find it did work and decided she wanted £3 for it. I offered £2, she refused and held out for £3 so Tarly and I started to walk away. She came chasing after us saying she’d take £2 after all. 🙂 It looked pretty grubby so I was thinking I might have still paid too much but when we got it home it cleaned up perfectly and she loves it, and they cost loads more than I’d realised new so that was a bit of a bargain – wish I’d kept it back for Christmas or birthday now! She then decided we needed to get something for Davies next so with her eagle eyes she soon spotted a Trapdoor annual and we got that for him – again totally unmarked so he has already filled out his own name in the ‘this book belongs to…’ bit. Grand total of £3.50 spent by Tarly and me.

Ady and Davies had got a free Shaun the sheep rucksack because Davies convinced the stall holder what a fan he was but Ady refused to shell out any money for it (we already have one at home in our ‘collection’ and it was very grubby. It’s been through the wash and is now drying on the line looking pretty much like new :). And two identical Wallace and Gromit alarm clocks, bringing our Wallace and Gromit alarm clock count up to 3 now 🙄 and a W&G air freshner too. Their grand total spend was £3.00 so bargains galore all round :).

We then popped into Sainsburys for a few bits and pieces, Boots where Tarly and I went and chose a new hairbrush each. She has suddenly decided she enjoys brushing my hair and as we were previously a non-brushing household (Ady clearly doesn’t need a hairbrush, Davies doesn’t need one either, I have never really bothered and Scarlett has always been averse to brushing) all of our hairbrushes were either cheap and nasty hair pulling ones or novelty pink plastic ones. Lucy has a lovely soft hairbrush which Tarly always likes to use on her own hair when we go round there and it makes it all shiny and glossy too so we invested in a couple of nice proper hairbrushes. :). We also popped into the next door shoe shop which sells real proper crocs rather than the cheapo imitation ones Tarly and I are sporting just to check what the difference is. The real ones are far more shoe-like, clearly better quality and maybe slightly heavier, but I’m still very happy with the ones we have in terms of price. 🙂

We came home for lunch and to make some rice crispie cake chocolate nests with mini eggs in them. I made the nests and Scarlett was in charge of putting out the cake cases and putting mini eggs in each nest. Then back out again to drop Easter eggs off for my parents and Frazer. My Mum is ill – some sort of flu bug which is laying her very low and she’s not someone prone to illness or giving in to it, so we won’t be seeing them this weekend. Dropped their eggs off and collection a couple from them to the kids, kept my distance from ill people and then we went over to Chris and Julie’s.

The children played in the garden, Julie made little Easter baskets which they all decorated and then we sent them inside the house while we hid loads of mini eggs round the garden before letting them out to find them. 🙂 We ate some of the crispie nests we’d taken over and I would have pictures but my camera appears to have died. Ady is convinced it is due to me keeping it in my bag /pocket rather than a proper case round my neck coupled with it going to the beach 3 times this week – I am more convinced it is just retired. Fortunately one thing we are not short of in this house is digital cameras, which is just as well as I peeped on ebay with a view to replacing mine and they still go for loads of money :shock:.

We left there around 6pm ish to get home in time for Dr Who (not to watch it, we did that later while eating dinner, just needed to get home in time to tape it) and bed for the kids. We’ve laid out the eggs they’ve had from various family / friends topped up with lots of hidden mini eggs and now we are actually without any arrangements tomorrow which is lovely. I think we’ll probably eat lots of chocolate, maybe have a roast dinner at lunchtime (lamb, just to complete the circle of life from earlier this week 😉 ) and then maybe walk down to the beach :). Had a very funny conversation with the children about what the Easter Bunny has got to do with Jesus and all his hokey -cokey dead alive shenanigans but managed to liken it to Jesus / Father Christmas without actually explaining anything. I think the lure of presents / chocolate is probably sufficient reason not to worry too much about all the politics of the season for your average 4 and 6 year olds really. 😆