Mooching morning, active afternoon

I slept in this morning, which was much needed 🙂 We didn’t have any plans for today so I happily spent the morning on the sofa online uploading photos and reading lots of blogs and forums and email lists about the review and stuff. Davies spent a couple of hours on the xbox and managed to get through 3 levels on a W&G to get him to the last level, which he is now desperate to complete.

Scarlett and Ady cooked the dinner – Scarlett did loads apparently including peeling and chopping and mashing, mixing and so on. She said Ady didn’t let her touch the oven which I normally do but in fairness most of the pans would have been too heavy for her anyway. They produced a delicious roast chicken, with homemade yorkshire puddings and gravy, 3 types of potatoes (roast, boiled and mashed), carrots, peas, suet pudding. It was very nice.

We decided to walk down to Brooklands for an ice cream for puddiing and try the geocache function on Ady’s new phone. We failed to find the first one and as we were all scrambling about in nettles and getting stung were happy to quickly give up but we found the second one 🙂 We filled in the log, decided against swapping anything and ummed and ahhed over the travelbug in there but couldn’t get online to geospeak easily to check what conditions there were attached to it. I still think we need to consider how to do it as the phone function is great and tells you all nearby caches, gives local info and coordinates and then guides you in with a compass feature, how many feet you are away and how many degrees left or right you need to turn but doesn’t give the sort of specific instructions and clues I’ve seen on others’ machines. But hey, we found it 🙂

We had a quick play in the park with Davies showing Ady how he walks over the top of the climbing frame by which time the cafe was closed. I’d been up for wandering over to the beach but we were getting tired so walked back home, calling at a shop on the way for ice creams / ice lollies.

Back at home Ady did some watering in the garden, Davies and Scarlett had a bath and hairwash and I cycled up to the allotment. It rained heavily here last night so I only gave the plot a quick water, picked some sweet peas, pulled some garlic and then realised I had to get it home on the bike so stopped pulling garlic! I managed a rough braid of the 10 or 12 I’d pulled and draped them across the front of the bike to get them home.

I brushed Tarly’s hair and we read some Charlie Small then it was bedtime for them and bathtime for me. I’m really pleased to have had some support over the review from non-HE friends and feel I should do some more research to know how to point them in the right direction to makes their voices heard too. Reading all the press today on it has made me a little more positive