Park. And stuff.

It’s all go being a minor local HE celeb you know 😉

I’ve now had 2 people putting themselves forward for the role as my PA which made me laugh. Not the notion that I’d be needing a PA you understand – that is entirely plausible. I’ll be needing my phone answered, my emails replied to, my spelling checked when typing comments on the Argus website and my table kept clean and tidy to name but a few tasks.

Not even the idea that working for me would be some sort of prize job. For a start there would be very little in the way of renumeration – I’m hardly flush with the cash these days.

No, what really made me laugh was the idea that I’d have not one but two children home all day with me under the guise of being Home Educated when the genuine reason for them not being in school is so that I can keep them in domestic servitude. PA? Hardly, I’ve already got two of them! 😆

Scarlett managed to bump her head on the radiator while playing Horsey rides with Davies first thing this morning. PA Davies was deputised to kiss that better.

I made my own cup of tea, poured cereal into bowls for the children and let the chickens out and fed them all myself. I like to keep it real, stay in touch with my roots, that sort of thing.

I whizzed round the shop to get a copy of the paper and left the children to look after each other. That seemed to go swimmingly.

We packed a picnic and headed off to the p.a.r.k. Lucy and I had arranged to go there and sit for as long as we could before needing to aquiesce to children’s demands to go home and stop playing with each other. Our children are not known for getting on well with each other for any length of time. Usually. But today they proved us all wrong and we sat in the park for over 4 hours while they all got along swimmingly. Life is so much better since we arranged marriages and betrothed them all to each other – the pre-marriage guidance counselling we set up has ironed out all the problems between the four of them and they are on track for a long and happy life together.

There was much hilarity in the park when the park cat – she does seem to be genuinely the Park Cat and spent most of the day loving being with all the children – got cornered by 3 massive dogs and they staged a Hairy McLary-esque panto across the fields chasing each other. The children mostly got dirty and had fun together while we chatted.

Back home I made pizza dough (bored of pretending I use Davies and Scarlett as PAs now) and let the little chicks out within the big chickens area to see what would happen. It all seems like it’s going to be a straightforward introduction to each other. The children spent some time out there with them all and then came in to finish off the colouring and drawing they’d been doing before it was dinner time.

I ran them a bath to wash off the park grime, chatted to Ali on the phone and restrained myself from engaging any further with the loony man commenting on the Argus thread. Just as well really as he has this evening proved himself to be quite deranged!

Ady came home and he and Scarlett read together with her attempting the odd words here and there, while Davies made a start on his Mr Gum book. He did well but I suspect it is just too fast paced a read to appeal when he is still at spelling out stage. He’s certainly getting there though 🙂

I read them because I’d ordered in various award winning books for us and some of which Scarlett had been asking me to do as she looks at it in bed and then I finished off with a chapter of Mr Gum read aloud to them.

Ady and I played ‘name the tune first’ with his Mp3 player, both had baths, and I cooked dinner. Scarlett came back out of bed to sing along to some Michael Jackson and then we had dinner.

We’re planning on heading off with the tent for the weekend in the morning, so I probably won’t be around til Sunday evening.