And furthermore…

We finished our festive film fest and headed off to swimming lessons. We were slightly late anyway and then once Davies had gotten changed and headed poolside Tarly decided she needed a wee so we were later still getting to the spectator area which meant that I didn’t get my usual seat right at the front and we were a few rows back. Behind the three other ‘swimming mums’ all with younger siblings to keep entertained. Two turned round straightaway and were all smiley and said things like ‘now you’re not going to fall down are you?’ 😆 referencing my graceful tumble of a few weeks ago. And then they all kept turning round to chat to me and Tarly, one in particular made about five attempts at proper conversation. I’m a bit unused to this behaviour in after school stuff as normally everyone knows each other and I’m fairly speedily marked out as ‘the one who doesn’t send her kids to school’ which coupled with my own slight aloofness means I rarely exchange more than a smile with most of the other parents. It was quite nice though 🙂 I suspect I will probably return to my front seat watching Davies’ progress so when he dissects the lesson in minute detail afterwards I can speak with confidence back having watched it closely rather than chatting with the other mums but it was nice to feel ‘normal’ for half an hour :lol:. Scarlett was a nightmare for most of it, she gets really bored and I was employing all my very best distraction techniques while trying to peer at Davies and respond to friendly overtures so I felt a bit stretched, but we did talk about the disabled man who wheelchairs to the poolside and then swims with a float between his rather wasted knees, discussed which was our favourite swimming cap of the ones being sported by the lane swimmers, talked about Davies’s swimming – and Scarlett got to see him do two whole widths with relative ease and get given his certificate :), it’s all suddenly clicked for him I think, so hopefully next term should see some real progress, but how lovely that he can actually really swim :). Finally Scarlett and I played a game of guessing how old people were – she was fab with the children, I’d say she got them all spot on and then guessed the mums ages as 32, 34 and 36 which was probably fairly accurate. Then she blew it by guessing the lad of a lifeguard to be 38 when he was probably still grazing his teens and the elderly lifeguard as 89 to which I laughed and said he must have had a very hard life so she swung the other way and said he must be 27 then (I reckon he was around 60ish) :lol:.

Home for bath, tea, Simpsons and bed for them while Ady and I played supermarket tag with me dashing off for a forgotten ingredient for dinner only to realise ten minutes after I got home that we were missing another, even more vital thing so Ady went off to get that 😆 Tomorrow morning I’m working and tomorrow afternoon is end of term Badgers film night which Scarlett is invited along to as her first official Badger night with a proper start in January. She’s torn between great excitement and downright fear!