We lost the sky remote control at some point yesterday afternoon, which wasn’t a problem until the children went to bed as it was stuck on Nick jr anyway and I turned the tv off as soon as they went to bed (dreams of a tv free life – ah what bliss!). But this morning it meant the children had cast around for alternative pursuits and come up with a Halloween songs and sound effects cd. It has the usual ‘classics’ such as Monster Mash and Ghostbusters but then a few rather more tenuous linked titles such as Devil in Disguise by Elvis, so we talked about that for a while.
Scarlett wanted to know why it looked really sunny outside but when she opened the window to talk to the chickens it was really cold so we talked about cloud cover and clear skies. Tarly wanted to play Starfall again but we never quite got there (really must do that Grand Playroom Sort Out I have planned which will enable the permanent set up of a laptop for their use in there) but we did have several communal rounds of Zoo Tycoon.
We did some baking – cheese scones and chocolate chip cookies. The scones were lovely, the cookies got forgotten as Lucy and The Rs arrived and I got carried away talking instead of cookie monitoring and while they were still totally edible I am quite choosy about cookies and only really like chewy ones – these were well onto the side of crispy and crunchy. They’ll get eaten here though – Ady’s home :).
The children seem to have benefitted from reduced contact with each other and all went off to play quite nicely, with various things being played with. It did degenerate into trashing at one point which I called a halt to once something actually got broken, yelled a bit, lectured about ‘how to treat our home’ and they all very efficiently tidied everything up again :). Lucy and I chatted and then they headed off and we returned to Zoo Tycoon.
Ady arrived home bearing gifts of freshly dug out of the ground carrots for Scarlett from a photoshoot he’d been at, Skippy for Davies from a trip to Costco on his way home. And erm, a big tub of washing powder for me 😆 Oh and some cider! He knows how to charm a woman, that Ady ;). The children ate carrots, skippy sandwiches and hoovered up various baking for tea and I read them a HUGE pile of about 12 library books so that I can take them all back tomorrow.
And that’s about it really, a fairly unremarkable day, not terribly unlike yesterday but nice to have every now and again. Tomorrow I’m working all day and on Friday I’m taking them to Fishbourne as they have half term activities going on which we’ll get into free and Ady is at QVC by train so I can use his car to get there too. The activities have been going on all week so hopefully it won’t be too packed with half-termers.
You do know you can use the buttons on the sky box to change channels? 😉
And yes, chewy cookies beat crunchy ones 🙂
Comment by Alison — 24 October 2007 @ 10:29 pm
Yeah I did have a quick go last night but it took forever as kids tv is in the 600s and I wanted to watch BBC1. I gave up around 300 something! 😆
Comment by Nic — 24 October 2007 @ 10:37 pm
what is skippy?
Comment by Sarah — 25 October 2007 @ 7:28 am
Can we come to Fishbourne with you?
Comment by Roslyn — 25 October 2007 @ 8:11 am
Nic … after sometime of not replacing our battery in the remote, I realised that you can press the “tv guide” button on the sky box, which cuts down button-pressing considerably. This enabled us to not have to bother replacing the batteries for several more weeks 😉
Comment by Alison — 25 October 2007 @ 10:23 am
Is ady going to make another QVC appearance?
Sarah – Skippy is “american” style peanut butter. It is peanut butter for people who don’t like peanut butter to taste of… peanuts. It gives you a massive sugar rush after one mouthful. I quite like it in small doses but I don’t regard it as peanut butter – it’s more like a confection. If I want peanut butter I prefer “proper” peanut butter that tastes cruchy, salty and peanutty!
Comment by simon — 25 October 2007 @ 11:04 am
… or Nic has taken to feeding the kids with kangaroo meat.
Comment by simon — 25 October 2007 @ 11:06 am
Ooh Alison, thanks, I was going through the whole 600 channels with up and down. That was just like a Viz letters page tip 😉 😆
Si, kangaroo meat would be nice, but clearly we’d rear out own rather than buy it in from Costco ;).
Ros, yes, that’d be ace 🙂 Working today but will email you later to arrange 🙂 x
Comment by Nic — 25 October 2007 @ 11:38 am