We’d been planning to go to Paradise Park today with Ali and Freya, as we have only a few more weeks left on our annual pass before it runs out. But Ali isn’t well and it didn’t seem worth driving over there just for the three of us, and it was too cold to be outside for long anyway and when we put it to the vote the majority – well okay, all three of us – voted to stay home instead.
Kirsty had mentioned an interesting programme they’d been watching and of course anyone who calls themself a Home Educator these days has been laminating, hama beading and watching Chemistry, a volatile history so I thought we’d watch one or the other of those and leap on the bandwagon (whilst singing Another Brick in the Wall, what with that being our anthem and that). But the Chemistry thing doesn’t seem to exist on iplayer anymore so I guess we’ll have to remain not proper Home Educators after all. We watched the first episode of the How the Earth made us and Davies and I enjoyed it, Scarlett got a bit restless halfway and wriggled off to do some drawing instead. I think Davies struggled with the whole hour to be honest, it did feel rather stretched out but we enjoyed it nonetheless.
It was nearly lunchtime by that point but I wanted to go to the library to do some photocopying of birth certificate etc to get my (fourth) CRB check form sent off for my Waste Prevention Advisor position – did I mention I got offered the position this week? I can’t remember. And we needed a few bits from the supermarket too. So we gathered up some library books we’d finished with and nipped into Lancing to return them, get some more, photocopy the forms, get the application in the post and have a wander round the Co-Op for various food items.
Back home again I went to make lunch, managed to shout at Scarlett for being careless with her DS (she leapt up when I asked her to give some old manky grapes to the chickens and forgot it was on charge with the lead stretched across her so it went flying) and then spent over half an hour dealing with the fall out from that of her sobbing and saying she was rubbish at everything while Davies and I came up with a huge long list of all the things she is great at. Some of our list had me feeling like I was in a bad Monty Python sketch (Me: you’re great with animals, remember how many baby chicks you have looked after and helped us to rear S: *great wails of sorrow* but some of them died‘). Then her and I went out to the chickens, she brought two of them into the kitchen to show them the house they used to live in when they were chicks, forgot her woe and cheered up and we were able to have lunch. Phew.
Davies did some Xboxing while Scarlett made my Valentines Day present – a hand painted glass bottle 🙂 and presented it to me early :). I mostly drank tea and read Chris Evans autobiography.
I did the kids tea, Davies came and helped me with that and then while they were eating I chopped some firewood for sticks and got a fire lit. Ady tends to always do that task but he’s been getting home later than usual and really once it gets dark it’s good to have the fire lit, both pyschologically and because if it doesn’t get lit til after 7pm it can take a good hour or so before it’s properly warmed up. Unless of course your name is David in which case you simply bank it up til the chimney is lit 😆
Ady arrived home, I read a bit of The Dreamfighter and the kids went to bed. I got a text message which delighted us all and we’re looking forward to seeing friends at the weekend. 🙂
I made pizza for dinner, Ady had to go back out to buy a decent tin opener as our pound shop one died and flatly refused to open another tin can. Ever. We tried to work out which bit of the can to puncture with the small and scarily sharp looking attachment on my penknife, sensibly gave up before one of us got hurt and he went to Sainsburys to buy a new one. It cost over a fiver but we’re justifying it as an ‘essential piece of kitchen kit’ and both agreed our pizza tasted all the better for the tinned pineapple and tuna having been opened with a quality tin opener 😆
I had to sit with Tarly while she fell asleep but she was almost asleep when she called me in so I just stroked her hair and whispered lovely things to her and she drifted off really quickly. Davies then called me up to show me all the Simpsons pictures he’d been drawing and pinning up on his wall. Must photograph them, he’s gotten very good at them very quickly.
Most tins have the ring pulls on now don’t they?
Comment by Michelle — 14 February 2010 @ 7:19 pm
lol, not value tins like what we have ;).
Comment by Nic — 15 February 2010 @ 6:40 pm
i have the bbc chemistry thing on disc if you want to borrow it?
Comment by Liza — 16 February 2010 @ 2:32 am