One could get disheartened…

Cinema again today. We saw The Wild. Very well animated, very weak storyline, too many similarities to Madagascar to carry it off really. No catchy soundtrack, not much charm, no catchphrases and generally rather forgetable. Davies watched it all but Tarly struggled with it about an hour in and then bumped her chin (ouch) on the arm of the chair where she was wriggling and cried, loudly 🙁 I managed to pacify her and she cheered up again for the ending but really it was a fifteen minute story with unecessarily complicated bits that she struggled to follow. Eddie Izzard’s koala was the redeeming feature for me really 😉 Like Eddie 🙂 Both children agreed they much prefered Curious George out of the two films anyway, but enjoyed the two cinema trips in a week experience lots! Thanks film education 🙂

We just had time to drop a couple of library books in and grab a plastic bag full of toy dinosaurs on the way to home ed group. The only attendees this week were us, Julie and Lucy. As last week was due to be our last week at the venue anyway we totted up the money and realised we’d used up all our funds so have cancelled it for next week and will start meeting at a local park each week instead. Come September if we have sufficient numbers to hire a venue again we will do so, if not we’ll move our get togethers indoors somewhere (soft play?). I like the idea of having *something* we do weekly to refer new people to but can’t be doing with the responsibility of being the one to fix themes and hire venues every week. I’m glad we did it for the four weeks as I’ve met at least four new contacts but as Julie and I (and often Lucy) meet weekly anyway it makes sense to just publicise that locally and refer any new HE folk to that get together as ‘local events for Worthing’. The theme was dinosaurs so they all played with the plastic dinos for a bit and then just ran around really. They found a ball and a hoop which they invented various games for and then Lucy brought in her cd played and a Spanish holiday song cd (birdie song, agadoo etc) so all the children danced to that for a while. Rebecca and Maisie danced together for ages – they are very similar in nature and make cute little friends actually, far more alike than either of them is to Tarly so we ahhhed at them holding hands and quietly dancing together. 🙂

Lucy, Rebecca and Richard came back for coffee afterwards but Rebecca didn’t really want to leave Lucy to play, despite Davies’ constant offers, Richard ignored all the various baby friendly toys we offered and wanted to climb the stairs with a view to falling back down them or play with the coal dust covered companion set on the hearth so Lucy I struggled but just about managed to chat about camping. She’s coming along to Kessingland which will be great and her husband, Colin, has done exactly what I would have done if finances would have allowed and dashed out and spent a fortune on everything with the word ‘camping’ infront of it 😆 Seeing them again tomorrow as we’re going to Drusillas (will be there from 11 Ros if you’re around?).

I did the children’s tea while they played ‘Curious George’ and then tidied up with very thorough micro-management from me 🙄

Looking forward to getting outside tomorrow, we’ve been indoors all week, so rain or not we’ll be out there tomorrow for at least a part of the day.