Proper Sunday like

Started with a lay-in. A real proper, slept all the way through til nearly 10am lay in. Lovely :). I really am a 830 or later sort of riser and had at least 5 out of the last 7 mornings earlier than that so I needed to make up my deficit – and going to bed earlier does not count, it has to be staying in it later!

Davies read a book to Ady and I and then Scarlett and I read a book together then Davies wanted to start painting his room. I had this idea of a professional looking mural tying together his various passions and stuff in his room chanelling his path through obsessions such as Wallace and Gromit memorabilia, Doctor Who toys and of course his life size dalek, his current Ben 10 ‘thing’ and so on. Davies on the other hand wanted to take the opportunity to showcase his own artistic talents. And I guess not many 7 year olds get to paint on walls without being yelled at 😆 What we’ve started with is a collaborative effort which sort of takes in both our ideas, sort of, ish. We have a tardis, an army of flying daleks, the dalek spacecraft, various planets (from our imagination, not real ones) and the orange logo from Doctor Who which we’re going to write Davies on instead. It looks pretty good actually, if very definitely the work mainly of a child.

Scarlett sat downstairs and did cutting and sticking. She found a card making stash we’d got off a freecycler crammed with Christmas card making stuff so was happily making Christmas cards when we came back downstairs. Davies decided to do one too and did a lovely one with santa on the front and ‘to mummy, love Davies’ inside 🙂 He then did an amazing card for Ady where he snipped off the corners of the card and used them inside along with various other bits to create a boat on the sea. It’s fab, I must take a photo of it, it’s the sort of thing you’d see at a craft shop made by a proper card maker :).

Ady cooked roast dinner for 3pm ish so we had that and watched The Simpsons then I dragged everyone out for a walk. The weather was warm but overcast so we decided to head down to the beach. We took a detour through the industrial estate where I used to work so it was over half an hour before we actually got to the sea. Davies and I walked together and played a game where we told a story together – one person would start and stop at a crucial mid sentence point when the other one had to take over. It was hilarious as he has the same surreal sense of humour as me so while the story made very little sense we were highly entertained by each others nonsense :). He then had one of those assault on the senses moments that one of the women in the can’t read can’t write programme was talking about last week when we walked past somewhere with road sign, loads of factory names and so on all at once. He read ‘rabbit’ and ‘biffa’ on the skips, ‘bacon’ on a property for sale board, Winston Road on the street name sign and ‘tyres’ on a banner. It’s so exciting!! 🙂

At the beach were a load of kite surfers setting up and going out, it was high tide and fairly rough so probably perfect conditions so there were plenty of cool stunts to watch, some of them go right up in the air on their kites – it looks amazing fun 🙂

Predictably within minutes both children had their shoes off and were in the sea. When I moaned at Davies he said ‘well you didn’t tell us not to’ which was fair enough, but I’d kind of assumed they wouldn’t. They did have great fun though and they were the ones who had to walk home in wet clothes. When it started to rain on the way home and Ady and I got wet too Scarlett said ‘well I knew it was going to rain and I thought I’d rather get wet having fun in the sea than being miserable walking in the rain!’ 😆

We walked home a different way and stopped to get the children chocolate on the way. By the time we got home we’d been out for over 2 hours and felt very virtuous for working off our roast :). The children had a long bath that made their hands and feet all wrinkly followed by hot chocolate and toast. In lieu of a story we watched Mio Mao on youtube as they’d been telling me about it and singing the theme tune and I had no idea what they were on about.