Oh yes!

I did my usual morning rounds of getting breakfast, letting chickens out and feeding them, feeding the cat and so on before finally sitting down with my tea – oh I could so be a farmer 😆

Davies and Scarlett were playing with plasticine which they carried on with pausing to eat, get dressed and then tidying up ready to go out. We were off round to visit Caz, the new friend we met last week with 7yo A and nearly 5yo E – both boys :). The four children had really hit it off last week and we’d been invited round to their house to play. When we arrived the children took their coats and shoes off and were spirited straight off into the house by A and E. They came back for food at lunchtime when we all sat and ate together and then they disappeared again til I ferreted them out at hometime. A very successful visit there :). They played a very lengthy game of Doctor Who and we could hear all four of them really enjoying themselves.

Caz and her husband Bid were both there and the three of us sat and chatted non stop too, exchanging basic and brief life stories and lengthy and indepth home education stories. They are both teachers by trade although both work part time at it and Caz is building up a gardening round and studying horticulture too. I’d felt like I’d clicked with Caz last week and continued to feel like that and really liked Bid too – I think Ady would get on well with them both too, they remind me a lot of friends of ours who emigrated away and despite having very different backgrounds there were lots of likeminded things and common dreams and aspirations too which was great. A really enjoyable few hours which we’ll hopefully repeat again soon :). And a constant supply of tea too! Funny how people seem to come into your life at times who you would have had nothing in common with previously but seem perfect to have around right now sometimes…

We left there at 330pm and came home – D and S DS’d and started watching the Simpsons Movie. Then it was time for swimming. They both had a good lesson – Scarlett must have drunk so much water from grinning all the way through the lesson. She’s rubbish at listening, keeps calling out to the instructor to get feedback on how she’s doing (which the instructor is handling really well by giving her the feedback patiently and listening to her without disrupting the lesson for everyone else – I can’t tell Scarlett off, it’s sheer delight and enthusiasm!) but is loving every minute of it and I know once she really gets into the swing of it the fact she is enjoying it so much will mean she gets it all so much quicker once the novelty of being there has worn off and she’s actually getting somewhere with the swimming side of things! Davies continues to do well – they are easily the two most water confident children in the pool even though they might be the least far along in actually learning to swim 😆 I reckon that’s a pretty good start.

Showers and hairwash there for them and then they both managed to do most of their dressing themselves as I’d told them they’d have to now they are both there with me passing clothes and dealing with keeping wet and dry stuff seperate for them – summer with less clothes and less fiddly shoes will make all the difference there I’m sure.

We were most entertained to note the bottom level (below ground level) of the car park had flooded to over a foot deep – wish I’d had the camera as it was really funny seeing a swimming pool in the car park of a swimming pool :lol:. We got blustered about – the pool is right on the seafront – running back to the car and got in for the children to have dinner while I prepared my dinner, clean teeth and get pjs on while I hoovered and then they watched me lay and light a fire before we snuggled up for a couple more chapters about Plop. We’ve had various conversations about ‘turns of phrase’ today including ‘off the hook’ and a couple of others I can’t recall now with them most interested in the origin of sayings. I suspect Davies watching QI with us the other night has led to him thinking about such things.

They went to bed, I had a bath and a delicious dinner (nigella recipe potato gratin, divine :)) and am about to head off to bed as I’m working in the morning at a training session in Worthing. And tomorrow Ady comes home. And also tomorrow Torchwood is back. Woo hoo! 🙂