I decided to let everyone sleep til they woke naturally this morning – Ady aside of course. So I woke at 9am, Scarlett at 10am and Davies at 1030am. They had breakfast and got dressed, I did lots of laundry.
Davies finished off the last bit on an xbox game which means he’s completed it while Scarlett spent time with the ducks and chickens and quails. I forgot to mention in yesterdays blogpost that when we got home yesterday afternoon one of the bantam chicks was missing. I searched for quite a while before finding it, on it’s side, trapped and looking dead behind a bit of mesh in the garden. All the hens had abandoned it and left it for dead and I thought it probably was. We brought it inside, forced some water into it’s beak and put it under a heat lamp. It went from probably minutes from death to alert and chirping within the hour and against all odds we stuck it back outside with the others where it rejoined the gaggle of hens who all think they are it’s mother and is now totally fine. It is a cockerel so won’t actually be one we want to keep but is a very pretty bird and it would have been a horrid way to die.
Ady appeared home at lunchtime having been passing so he joined us for half an hour or so and when he left the rest of us decided pancakes were in order for lunch – partially as we’d got the taste for them thanks to SB’s petition yesterday and partially because they are an excellent way of dealing with egg gluts. Also Scarlett had specifically requested a ‘family night’ as she calls them when we all eat together so we’d planned dinner late for them, early for us which meant a decent lunch was in order for the kids to tide them over.
In the afternoon I spent ages plotting WOOFing hosts we’ve decided to approach on a map of the UK and then the kids and I read out some more and gave them yes and marked them on the map or no votes – we have 198 to get through and plot before we can even start contacting them to see if they would accept us as WOOFers on the dates we are hoping for. Will blog the whole process in greater detail in the relevant place soon.
Scarlett and I did her lipbalm making kit which involved melting some vaseline type stuff in a bain marie, adding colour and flavour and putting it into little pots. Quite fiddly but quite pleasing results :). She then did some drawings of dolphins and spent loads of time colouring them in and adding detail such as underwater fish and seagulls getting up to stuff in the sky.
Davies got out a maths set with protractor, set squares and compass etc in it and I showed him how to make a flower picture with the compass and talked about angles and degrees. We cut a circle into various fractions and tested them with the protractor until I felt a bit uncomfortable and he looked a bit bored so we stopped 😆 He then created a marble run style assault course for some Wallace and Gromit figures similar to the Xbox game he’d been playing and I went back to uploading photos to flickr.
Ady came home and we all did some more adding potential hosts to our long list until it was time to head out to a localish venue for Ady and I to give blood. It was my tenth donation and I got given a ‘bronze award’ of a certificate and a little pin badge. It was Ady’s 9th donation so he’ll get one next time. They were running late despite us having appointments and we realised it was going to be far too late to get home and start cooking dinner for the kids so we called into the chippie for fish and chips for them instead.
Davies and Scarlett ate while I read the first couple of chapters of Michael Morpurgo’s ‘Why the Whales Came
Dinner while watching a couple of episodes of Outnumbered. My diary has filled back up again nicely after our few weeks of hanging about the house so I’m looking forward to lots happening again in the next couple of weeks :).