Books!

Well thanks to Helen I’ve bought books today! Haven’t bought books for ages though and one was a tried and tested much enjoyed library book that I finally took back yesterday as someone else was waiting for it and will be a good addition to our bookshelves and the other was the set various people seem to have or be buying today of the Born with a bang, lava to life, mammals that morph series, which looks very good and will go perfectly alongside the couple of Eric Maddern books on the subject that we have and bring out fairly regularly. The whole ‘how did it all start and how did we get here? question is one Scarlett has been asking about a lot so I can justify the purchasing I reckon :).

This morning Davies and I did more of his paintings, he finished off all the painting bits and left them ready to dry before he drew in the details. That took a good hour and a half. Meanwhile Ady and Scarlett were outside, battening down the chicken run against the wind and rain that we’ve had this week and is set to continue including creating a sheltered outside bit for them under some waterproof sheeting. Then they made our garden look like we’ve spent a fortune buying plants off the telly 😆

looking at that picture reminds me we must gather some worms to put in those plastic bottle wormeries they’ve made too.

The kids watched Shrek while I made some cheese scones and chocolate brownies before our friends Kev and Sue arrived. Kev and Ady have been friends for nearly 30 years and been through some very tough times together including the tragic death of Kev’s wife (asthma attack aged just 19 🙁 – Ady had gone to school with her and that’s how he met Kev). Lifes have grown apart and they don’t see each other so much but text each other very regularly (both ardent Pompey fans :)) and when they get together it’s like they only saw each other yesterday. Ady has some very good friends that he goes way back to boyhood with and shared very strong bonds with which probably replace his family for him really. Kev and Sue are both in their mid 50s and Sue has 3 sons and 4 grandsons so they are a generation apart from me really but are lovely people. Davies and Scarlett lasted all of about five minutes before dragging Sue off to show her their bedrooms and then Scarlett clambered all over Kev showing him her DS 😆 she is discerning with her affections, but when she does give them it is wholehearted! They stayed for a couple of hours chatting and partaking of cheese scones before heading off.

Ady and Scarlett played with the toy animals for a while with Scarlett adamantly insisting to Ady that polar bears and penguins would *never* meet apart from in a zoo, while Davies drew in all his details on the now dry paintings. Then they went off to get dinner cooking while Davies told me what he wanted to write for all his labels and I told him which letters to use. Probably the most writing he’s ever done all at once.

Then there was something of a Simpsons-fest for about 2 hours while we all had dinner and the children got into pjs and watched the last one before bed. There were two more but we recorded them for them – surely 4 episodes in a row is enough yellow animated humour for anyone?! I parcelled up all the trains we’ve sold on ebay ready to be posted tomorrow and then settled down to watch Lost. I did have a post with loads of links of all the places we’re planning to visit in the next few months so I could start to work them into my diary but I accidentally closed the tab with the post on it so I lost that. Will try and do it again tomorrow.