some of us more than others ;).
Ady has:
* moved all the roof tiles that were nestling round the back of the house in the chicken area and providing a place of refuge for rats aswell as taking up lots of space. They are now stacked infront of the garage and we’ll have one go at selling them before freecycling them. They came off our roof when we built up and so have been kicking around for nearly 8 years, I think it’s time to let them go ;).
* did some chicken renovations to make it both tidier and easier for my Dad to look after them while we’re away at Helmsley. The chicks were fine out overnight and will now stay out all the time.
I have:
* updated my brother’s CV as he is about to be out of work and is on a job hunt. Neither of us had a copy of his old CV on a computer so I had to copy type the old one and add the new bits to update it.
* sorted out all the books. Scarlett and Davies both now have at least half a shelf spare on the bookcases in their bedrooms although the hall bookcase is still full on the bottom two shelves were kids books are kept. I need to go through the upper shelves and be ruthless with the adult books I’ve been keeping too. We now have over 100 books stacked up in the playroom to go through. Some are Dora books and other good condition books that might be worth trying to ebay, many others are ex-library junior reference books which are great but slightly tatty and just not worth keeping anymore. If the children did need reference resources on the subjects they are on we could use the internet or indeed borrow books from the library. We also have a pile of early reader /phonics types books which are simply never going to be used here. I think we’ll bring a fair few of them to camp and hope that someone else can get some use out of them.
* put all the clean laundry that was in piles in various places away. This was quite a mammoth task.
The children did some ‘helping’ Ady move the tiles, plenty of playing outside until their noses were all pink and glowy (it was freezing out there today), some playing with the toy animals and the lego and some time on Ady’s laptop playing various online games.
We all had a game of Pictionary – Davies and I played against Ady and Scarlett and we were clear winners. Davies is very good, he and I are on a similar wavelength so get each others drawings quite quickly. Scarlett is getting good at drawing too but doesn’t quite get the ‘speed is of the essence’ nature of Pictionary 😆
It’s been a nice, relaxed if busy, day at home which we don’t often have. Wouldn’t want them every weekend but just this once was very pleasant.