Biff! Crash! Argh! Wallop!

I decided fairly late last night that we should go to the PYO today. I’ve always thought it closed at the end of October so thought we’d get some apples, maybe some sweetcorn, perhaps some raspberries and any other late crops.I stuck a message out on the local facebook list too to see if anyone fancied coming along aswell.

I did some laundry processing and a few online bits and Scarlett and I watched one of the episodes from this dvd I borrowed from work

The kids are in the middle of one of their long running games which seems to be a hybrid of Indiana Jones, Star Wars and various wildlife adventures including toy action figures, lego people and part of Scarlett’s vast collection of cuddly toys and small plastic animals. There would seem to the casual observer and listened to be no plot line and simply a series of instructions from one child to the other to ‘pretend I just did this’ or ‘make them do that’ along with a load of sound effects but they assure me there is more to it and it is riveting them at least. It’s like that bit in Toy Story where Andy’s Mom says ‘we’re leaving in five minutes’ and Andy says ‘five minutes eh?…’ and picks up his toys to start playing with 😆

So we drove to PYO, about 20 minutes later than I’d planned only to find it closed 🙁 Turns out it shut yesterday for the winter. Ah well. We got some petrol and some cash out to pay for gymnastics, stopped at the old fashioned sweet shop (should that be ye olde sweet shoppe?) on the way home for quarters of fizz bombs and sherbert pips and came home for lunch. The irony of going out to pick fresh fruit and vegetables and ending up with bags of sweets was not lost on any of us but we quite enjoyed the ‘up yours then’ ness of it. We had good intentions after all! 😉

Back home we watched an episode of and discussed how fab David Attenboroughs voice is. I would love for him and Stephen Fry to read me bedtime stories every night :). I sent out an email about Longleat, emailed Groombridge Park and Wildwood Trust about potential group visits for next year, did some syncing of my phone and calendar, booked an online food shop for later in the week and ploughed through a pile of paperwork. The kids mostly carried on with their game including building a landscape on the table with dvd cases, glasses of water and a pool on the floor made from an upside down desk pad. After the polar bear / melting ice bit on the dvd Scarlett got out her polar explorers helicopter and jeep and penguins and polar bears joined the game too 😆

Then it was off to gymnastics. I paid the fees and covered Scarlett’s ring up with some surgical tape – Davies has been told next week he needs to cover up or remove his wrist bands (he’s going for covering up, obviously). I left them to it and came home, arriving just before Ady who had been racing to see if he can get home in an hour (he can, but he did kill a pheasant which I hope he won’t be making a habit of). We nipped up to where Sea Scouts is so he knows where to deliver and collect Davies from tomorrow evening and then I went off to pick them up from gymnastics. They were happy and enthusiastic again although they came home with letters asking them to help recruit their friends to join. Scarlett is indeed in the 8+ group which she is probably able for in terms of being as agile as Davies at 9 but it’s odd to see both their names in an 8+ group.

Late dinner for them, then some story – a rather beautifully retold and illustrated version of Aladdin which we read about half of. Baths and dinner for us and some shennanigans with secret santa, a phone call with Babs and a spot of knitting later (still adding to that blanket) it’s bedtime for me. Tomorrow is a totally manic day!