If you can’t find the music to get down and boogie all you can do is

Step back in time!

To Friday.

I’d normally work all day on my every other Friday but due to them owing my hours in lieu from the bank holiday I only had to work the afternoon. I later learnt they hadn’t thought this through terribly well as in the morning I’d have done the banking and Baby Rhymetime both of which they had to get someone else to do but it suited me :).

Ady went off to do a couple of Garden Centre visits – his job role is all over the place again, due to various, nothing to do with him factors then he came home to be with Davies and Scarlett for the afternoon while I went off to work. The children and I spent the morning packing all the clothes, books, towels, sleeping bags, fleeces, camping mats etc. stuff that is stored inside. Ady got all the stuff that lives in the garage out and sorted in the afternoon ready for our weekend away. Scarlett had a mammoth trying on session of summer clothes with pretty much everything going into the ebay pile and loads of too big last year stuff coming out. She is now firmly into age 6-7 clothes and anything new I’ve bought recently has even been 7-8 years. I think she is on the taller side of average and Davies is clearly on the shorter side of it although he has grown a bit lately too. Scarlett has plenty of dresses but could probably do with some more cropped trousers as I think that is what she’ll be living in for the next few months – dresses are ok but they tend to hamper her tree climbing tendancies a bit ;). I’ve cut the arms off loads of her thinner material tops though to make t shirts instead of needing to buy new ones :). D is rather short of shorts as it were too so a shorts shopping spree is on the agenda for next payday. I do have stacks of stuff to get on ebay though so that should fund it :).

So Ady came home, I went off to work and it was incredibly hot in the library (as it would be, the heating is centrally controlled and still on :shock:) with the same borrowers who were in 2 weeks ago moaning about how cold it was coming in to moan about how hot it was outside :lol:It really is a British thing talking constantly about the weather isn’t it? I find myself doing it all the time too.

I got home and took Tarly to Rainbows where they made spinners but colouring in discs of card then they were laminated and cut into spirals and string attached. Scarlett drew a Ben 10 chick on hers so decided she didn’t want it to be cut up and asked for it to have a hole punched at the top and the string tied there instead to hang it up. The leaders commented she was much more like a Brownie wanting to do it her own way when usually the Rainbows have to be really encouraged to deviate at all from the leaders example one. I thought that was a bit of a generalisation, particularly given the individuality of most of the small children I know, but sure enough lots of them produced very similar patterns. I had a bit of a chat with the leader about the Guides policy on bullying, violence and discipline generally as she has been a leader for many years across Rainbows, Brownies and Guides. Scarlett took her Fur Real cat round for circle time but I fear nothing will eclipse the real live chick from a couple of weeks ago. Everyone knows her name now and she is getting better at playing with them instead of hanging round with me in the breaks between activities.

Scarlett and I got home and after Ady’s final seven checks that he’d locked the back door / turned off the gas / changed the batteries on the smoke alarms/ packed everything we were off!