Otherwise I won’t catch up!
Slept in late, must have needed it. The kids had sorted out their own breakfast – hurrah! I’ve been lecturing Davies lately about getting a bit more self-reliant as he is *nearly ten!*. I think some of it is going in. He is very hard to be cross with for long as he has so little attitude and when I point out something he is doing wrong / annoying he tend to agree, promise to try harder and at does seem to try. Probably just as well, I couldn’t cope with two who shout back ;).
Kids did some Xboxing, played with the geomags, fell out and made up, I cut Davies’ hair a bit as it was just getting on the neglected side of unkempt rather than a style choice. They played outside with the ducklings.
We had lunch, nipped into Lancing to the pound shop for Chatterbooks supplies (squash, biscuits, felt tips etc.) and then into the library. Got everything ready for Chatterbooks, talked to two of the children from the previous sessions who happened to be in the library and were really pleased to see Davies and Scarlett and the four of them chatted for quite a while together which was nice to see.
New Chatterbooks attendees arrived and we all introduced ourselves. They made name badges, had refreshments etc. Two of the girls remembered Scarlett from Rainbows which was nice :). We did the tour of the library, chose books by their covers, did the book cover jigsaw, designed our own book jackets and talked about illustrations. It all felt slightly rushed (we had squashed two sessions into one) and tough getting to know names etc so quickly but I think it went well. Certainly less obviously disruptive children this time, which is good.
I did some photocopying for Badgers, caught up with various colleagues, the kids collected a MASSIVE pile of audiobooks I’d ordered in for them, Scarlett chose a heap of non fiction books about animals (she has about 35 items on her library ticket at the moment!) and then we came home.
I made them bacon and mashed potatoes for their tea, hung some washing out, brought some in (just before it started to rain), made pastry and cooked more bacon for quiches (for dinner, for having cold for lunches and for the freezer for a dinner next week), turned some very sad bananas into cupcakes and chatted to Ady who had arrived home. Nipped to the supermarket for more supplies leaving the others in the gartden, came home to recall too late I’d left a quiche baking blind in while I was gone 😳 so made some more pastry.
I read the kids a chapter of Scarecrow along with a non-fiction books about food chains and food webs which was interesting. They went to bed, I had a bath, finished making dinner and Ady and I caught up with Doctor Who.