I had this plan to go to bed all early and sober last night. I blame Ali for it not happening 😉 So I was not as enthusiastic about getting up with the children at 6.30 this morning as I perhaps could have been, so Davies actually said ‘I’ll look after Tarly Mummy’ and swept her off downstairs, plied her with something to eat (not sure what) and put a Winnie The Pooh film on for her. When Ady and I finally surfaced a good hour later he was so proud of himself and explained ‘I love my little sister very much. I like looking after her!’ Bless 🙂
It’s been Davies’ turn to be the child I adore most of this week actually. We had a few rocky times a few weeks back but we seem to have both gotten over whatever it was and he’s been lovely this week. Really grown up, really helpful and you can just see the glimmers of the man he might become – many shades of his Daddy in him so it’s no surprise how lovable I’m finding him just now. 🙂
So we went off to find a car boot sale this morning and the one we were expecting to be there wasn’t so we went further to the one I’ve visited with Julie a couple of times. Scarlett and I went round together and Ady and Davies went off bargain hunting together. They brought back a cuddly Shawn the sheep, a Wallace hand puppet and some cuddly character from Chicken Run. Oh yes Davies is a fully paid up member of the Aardman fanclub 😉 And all for under a pound you know! Tarly and I splashed out and spent a whole two quid which netted us an almost mint condition fun bus thing, a Polly Pocket light up thingy and this peg and block thing that I have trawled the internet trying to track down but can’t and given it’s retro packaging I would say could well be older than me! A true haul! 🙂 And they have been played with all day today so well worth the investment 😉
We dropped Ady off at my parents to go logging with Dad and came home so I could antibacterial wipe and spray all the car boot booty and make lunch ready for Dad and Ady to return. Dad stayed awhile and then when he left I went to do our week’s food shopping for next week.
When I got home Ady and Davies went outside for an hour or so. They cleaned out my car which was being used as some sort of holding bay for a load of work related stuff out of Ady’s car from when we went to Melrose, messed about with some bedding plants and generally got muddy! Me and Scarlett played with the block and peg things, did some jigsaws, she helped me unpack the shopping and then she put glittery gloopy pink make up on her and I to make us both look all ‘fritty’. 🙂
Davies and I had a bit of a session with coins earlier, he has a spiderman wallet with a load of loose change so we counted all the coins, seperated them into denominations and then talked about how a 2p piece was worth two of a penny and so on all the way up to a pound coin – imgaine that is worth 100 of those pennies! and so on. I don’t know if we’ll go much further with it yet, after all I only truly realised the value of money at 31 years old (;-)) but it was a good, well illustrated start.
So now, the children are asleep, we’ve had a bath, we’ve had a lovely roast dinner, I have turned the TV off in disgust at Sian and Russell winning Just the two of us and now I am being asounded and awe struck by the beauty of both the subject matter and the putting together of the Planet Earth show on BBC1. We’re recording it for the children, I hope Davies at least is as captivated by it as we are being….
Yeah, loved Planet Earth! And impressed by your bargains – that’s the best sort of shopping!
Comment by Joanna — 05 March 2006 @ 10:57 pm
Indeed it’s entirely my fault that you were reluctant to embrace the day at that time. Apologies! That and the fact that 06:30 is the middle of the night!
Great car-booting, does sound like bargains were found and fun was had!
Have also recorded Planet Earth and hoping to get to see it sometime in next few days.
Am intrigued about the peg and block thing.
See you Friday – have I got that right?
Am drinking and not working AGAIN!
Comment by Ali — 05 March 2006 @ 11:07 pm
Can’t believe you got that Polly thing so cheap!!! They don’t make them anymore and it’s a nightmare finding them for Boo. Envy here!
Sian and Russell! NOOOOOOO!!!
Comment by Roslyn — 06 March 2006 @ 9:14 am