Off to the car boot sale again this morning. I’m feeling a bit car-boot-sale-ed out to be honest, but we’ll be giving them a miss for the next couple of weeks anyway and then we’re planning to attend one as sellers rather than buyers so I should be about ready for the winter break by then I reckon.
I’d been looking for some science kits and spotted a couple of good ones today – a circuit and electronics type one and a build a robot type kit which I bartered down to two quid for the two. Davies got a (very annoying, it’s already been confiscated twice :roll:) voice changer thing and I got a couple of tops for him too.
Then we went to my parents for lunch. I had various favours saved up to ask my mum, all of which she said yes to, so that was a result 🙂 including the final one which was cutting my hair. It’s been about 3 months since I had it cut shorter with her doing the final phase and I thought I’d save £20 and get her to do it again, simply chopping the same length off all over to keep the layers in. It appeared to be nowhere near that simple and she got quite hysterical about the whole thing eventually refusing to cut any more off as it was going all wonky and she was worried she’d cut it too short. It was indeed very uneven but I managed to hack off a few more bits myself at home and after washing and leaving to dry it seems fine now. Fortunately I have a lot of hair and it’s natural rather random pattern of curls and waves lends itself quite well to abuse and rough handling (what a queer notion eh? 😉 ) and forgives even the most haphazzard attacks on it with a pair of blunt scissors 😆
Scarlett sat and observed the haircutting while playing barbie.com on Mum’s laptop, while Ady and Davies did the first electronics kit. Eventually we decided to come home to give the kids an early night and I sat and did the robot building kit with them while Ady cooked their tea. Scarlett was fairly oblivious to it other than the basic definition of a robot which was included in the kit and Davies certainly didn’t grasp all of the wiring stuff but got an good basic idea of what it was all about. Electronics is not something he’s ever shown any great interest in to be honest, but I did GCSE Electronics and at the very least I thought a basic idea of how things work might grab his attention. An element of it did (he liked the fact that somewhere along the line the previous owner had cross circuit wired it so the switch worked opposite with ON being OFF and vice versa) and it reassured me that in exposing and introducing him to electronics I had at least opened that avenue of opportunity if that’s something he he later follows. 🙂
I finished off the tardis for goody bags and spent some time playing with the superplexus ball, the children went to bed and I cooked a lovely roast chicken dinner.