anyone remember those days? Ah those happy days when blogging was more about influencing the google ads and not using paragraphs than anything else! 😆
There is no relevance to this, I just couldn’t think of a title by the way.
A fairly quiet morning as the children were playing with their new DS games – Davies got a Ben 10 one and Tarly got Dolphin Island which she’s been desperate for since playing it with Liza ages ago. I’ve a feeling she’ll need a lot of assistance to complete it but she’s happy :).
I had a couple of parcels that needed to go to the post office and as our little local one did indeed get closed down despite all the protests we decided to walk into Lancing rather than drive and go there. I can’t recall our conversations but I know we chatted all the way. We went to the post office first to get rid of the parcels and then wandered around Woolworths, the charity shops (where Tarly spent her 50pence she’d brought with her on a soft toy huskie, inevitable christened Timmy, as all her toy dogs are currently named – she went up to the counter with her purse and completed the transaction all alone. I got a stained glass flower kit and a sparkly jewel punching machine for putting pretty rivets on material) and the supermarket for various vegetables. We then got cakes from the bakers (plural, we got something in both the bakers in town) and then sat on the bench outside the library to eat them.
We called into the library and they chose 2 books and 2 films each to borrow and then we came home. We were out for a good couple of hours and it was really nice :).
I did some of the stained glass flower kit which Tarly helped with, Davies played more DS. Then Tarly did some craft stuff with lots of glitter and glue.
They had tea and then Ady came home. I’d been starting to stress over the Dad’s Special Rhyme Time which I’m running at the library tomorrow, worrying that some of the Dads simply won’t know the songs so as we don’t have a printer at home I went back to the library to print off some song sheets. It was really quiet and instead of sitting in the office Yvonne and Jan insisted I sit at the desk with them and do it so we had a very fun hour laughing and joking while I typed out the words to all the songs and nursery rhymes I could think of and photocopied them many times over.
Ady and the children were out in the garden when I got in so I brought the children in to get ready for bed and read them the books they’d chosen at the library and a couple of chapters of Famous Five (no let up there – Davies agrees it would be good to be able to read himself so he could take them up to bed and carry on reading after I’ve read my couple of chapters each night but Tarly is still adamant she wants all 21 books read to her. I found this which made me chuckle today as it’s something I’ve been saying about them. We’re planning to do a bit of trail down to Cornwall at the end of June finishing at the Eden Project with a stop near Corfe castle so that should mean something to the children as it was apparently the inspiration for Kirrin Castle another visit to Ginger Pop might be in order too 🙂 ) before they went off to bed. I popped out to see the chickens and Scarlett was already asleep by the time I came back in. Davies was still awake at long gone 11 though.
I’ve collated all my song sheets ready for the morning, enjoyed my far more modest than usual number of alcohol units (cutting down) and am off to bed.