Ady and Davies went off to YACs this morning. Ady is now an almost official parent-helper I think and was the only adult permitted to stay today as they were doing a dig and they encourage adults to be hands-off otherwise they take over apparentely. I love that Ady is going, partially as he seems to enjoy as much, if not more than Davies, partially because they have so very little that is something they do just the two of them together and partially because it means Tarly and I get to have one to one time too. They’ll miss the next session because we’ll be away and I’ve a feeling they don’t meet in August anyway. I may well see if Dad can have Tarly for any future sessions that I happen to be working for (or even just bring Tarly to work with me actually) so that Ady can carry on attending.
The dig was good, Davies came home and told me about flint and chalk, how flint can be different colours, what he’d dug up (mostly pottery) and which dates it was from and was most enthusiastic. Ady even more so ;).
Scarlett and I had breakfast and watched a couple of episodes of Wildlife SOS which is one of her favourite shows (have just been looking at their website, might try and organise a group visit there). Then we tackled a task we’ve been meaning to do for ages and went through her wardrobe and drawers trying on every item of clothing in there. She’s ended up with loads of clothes that fit and she is happy to wear rather than rotating the same few garments. We also ended up with a HUGE pile of clothes she has outgrown or doesn’t like. I seperated them into age 3-5 years, age 5-7 years and age 7-9 years and bagged them up, stuck them on freecycle and they were collected within the hour :). She now does not possess a skirt or dress or anything other than nightwear which is pink. I kept a tiny pile of clothes I had loved her in including the silver outfit she wore for Kirsty and James’ wedding. She is such a funny mix of girlie and vehemently NOT girlie :).
Back to some more wildlife documentaries and some lunch and then Ady and Davies arrived home.
Scarlett and I went out for a couple of hours in the afternoon – a trip to the big charity shop to see if they had any demijohns for my homebrewing adventures (no 🙁 ) and then to Morrisons for beer and picnic supplies for tomorrow and then into town for Fathers Day cards for my Dad. We have long since stopped buying any cards for each other between the four of us as it seems crazy paying a fiver for a card to say things we are capable of saying to each other far more sincerely and a waste of paper too but my parents are quite big on ‘nice’ cards so I wanted to find sone for minimum price and maximum shallow impressing effect ;).
We had a quick look in a couple of shops and while I was looking at flipflops and Scarlett was looking at toys in one shop she picked up a couple of toy frogs that you could squish and their insides pop out as they are liquid inside. She brought it over to show me and say ‘Look, you can make it look like these two are mating’ as she popped out the relevant bits into cavities from one to the other. All very innocent and IMO exactly how a young child should view the mating process of animals. Except she had approached and shown the wrong grown up! 😆 😆 She’d wandered over in my general direction, misplaced where my voice had come from as I’d not looked up and assumed the woman standing where I had been was me so demonstrated the mating frogs to her 😆 The woman found this hysterical (thankfully) and once I’d gotten over my initial embarrassment so did I 😆
Back home again Ady cooked dinner for children, Scarlett played with the ducks and chickens, Davies and I watched Doctor Who and then the kids and I watched a really good programme about the Top Ten Natural Wonders of the World. They included giant redwood trees, the Grand Canyon, Great Barrier Reef, Mount Everest, a volcano, Victoria Falls and more. The number one was one of my personal Must See Before I Die sights of the Northern (or indeed Southern) Lights. We decided we’d all actually like to see all of them (although I can tick off Grand Canyon at least).
Ady and I had duck for dinner which was very lovely (and scared Scarlett when Ady asked me how long to cook it for and she assumed we meant Sploosh or Lucky :lol:) and watched an Aussie version of River Cottage where the guy was having to protect his veggies from possoms.