Work all day for me today. I spent some time on the desk where among other things I helped an 84 year old man (he told me, he said ‘I’m 84 you know’ ;)) find a postcode for the Glanurk estate so he could write to Tiggy Legge-Berke who he used to know when she was a small child because he knew her grandfather and her father. He told me some war anecdotes and spoke all wistfully about Powys so it was nice to be able to show him some pictures on the internet. I do like that aspect of my job lots 🙂
It was an odd day veering between really busy for short bursts and then dead quiet. I managed to get a good haul of books about stone age and prehistoric man along with a copy of Walking with Cavemen [DVD] [2003]
which Davies is very pleased with as it has lots of information and various little crafty project suggestions. A quick flick through showed most of them to be making stuff with airdrying clay but I imagine he will adapt them to include old toilet rolls, plenty of sellotape and the empty plastic shell things that my disposable contact lenses come in as they are his basic materials for most things he makes 😆
Ady had been home with Davies and Scarlett in the morning and my Mum in the afternoon. Davies had spent some time finishing his cavemen area which now boasts a shelter and tools, a football stadium he is creating for Ady’s birthday present which folds out and includes all of us and various friends in the crowd, goals, loads of little details and has Simon Cowell in the crowd holding a banner that says ‘Ady’s got talent!’ 😆 It’s fab
Davies has also been working on his book – a notebook that he has entitled ‘walking with cavemen’ and he is illustrating and writing loads of information in including how to make fire, how to make shelters, what food cavemen ate and how they hunted.He is doing a fair bit of writing in it with fairly minimal help and really enjoying it.
Scarlett had been making a mini me, a house and a garden, all out of coloured in paper and cardboard which was also really good. My Mum seemed impresssed (‘you’re getting really clever!’). She’s really coming along with that sort of thing and starting to get really good at imagining something in her head and then setting about creating it to match her vision.
They also spent some time in the garden and did a fair bit of chicken herding I think as the foolish birds have started to wander further into the garden and discovered the front lawn which must seem like the promised land to them as they have long since killed all the grass in their area and we’ve put chipped bark down on it instead.
I was shown all the various wonderful things they’d made and then cooked their dinner which they ate watching the first two episodes of Walking with Cavemen before having the second third of the Charlie Small book. I’d have carried on til the end but it was getting late and we didn’t have dinner til gone 10pm in the end.
I’ve done some needle felting as Tasha and I have the postponed craft fair a week today and I don’t seem to have gotten very much further with things to display / sell. My aim is another 2 rag rugs, the Tasha-doll I’m making finished and a handful of small needle felted things to show / sell on the night and a folder showing other stuff I have made in the hopes I can take some commissions for custom made stuff. I’m making a Very Hungry Caterpillar at the moment which I will probably sell as a badge but I have a plan for novelty hats and bags on themes and think a really cool bag or hat with various foods from the story along with the caterpillar would be nice.