I’ve been very busy drafting a 2007 round up (which predictably doesn’t round the year up at all, just kind of verbatims it all back again!) and now it’s 2am and I’ve only got to September and I need to blog today!
I had a very late start to the day. Ady brought me a cup of tea upstairs around 8am, replaced it untouched with a new one around 9am and when I croaked that I thought I really needed some more sleep he went off again and I finally woke around 10am when Tarly came slamming into the room, put all the lights on and went for a wee in the ensuite bathroom! I did feel loads better for it though (and have probably ruined all the good it did me by staying up late now :roll:).
So a lazy day was in order here really. Davies was keen to investigate an Incredibles X box game he got for Christmas, both children played with the plasticine and their DSs, Scarlett did some drawing, I went through my clothes and gathered some stuff for ebaying, photographed and listed it all while Ady cooked roast chicken for lunch.
We ate around 2pm, started watching Surfs Up but deemed it rubbish so gave up on that and had half a plan to go and walk our lunch off at the beach but then got caught up watching some art programme on tv and were inspired to get the watercolours out instead. We all had a go, including Ady and if I remember I’ll photo our efforts and add them in tomorrow. Both children are enjoying the different effects and learning lots by experimenting with colours. I was painting on normal white paper and the difference between that and the proper watercolour card that is in their pads is amazing – am very tempted to get myself a watercolour pad too. 🙂
We degenerated back into DSing / laptopping and then my parents arrived while Ady was in the bath. They stayed a couple of hours, both had a go at Brain Training, the children had baths, we all ate Christmas cake and then they left and the children went (late) to bed. Ady stayed up til midnight watching Band of Brothers on one of the Sky channels (apparently he’s ‘in training’ for tomorrow) and now I really must go to bed as we have loads of stuff to get done tomorrow so I can’t be laying in bed til 10am again!
The Works do quite good, cheap watercolour pads or you can soak normal paper in water then smooth it out and tape it down to a board to dry – aparently that works just as well and is obviously cheaper but you have to plan a day or two in advance to doi t!