I worked this morning. I spent the first hour putting up a Chatterbooks display – I’d booked the public display space and have created a display using some photographs taken during the sessions and some artwork created during the sessions by the children. I did an hour on the Enquiry Desk (most of which I spent writing up a report of the Chatterbooks sessions) and an hour on the counter.
Davies had YACs this morning and they were at Michelham Priory for the morning learning about weaving and getting their heads round warp and weft. They had an expert guest who showed them how to make linen and talked about various material and weaving type stuff, then they all made pom-poms. Davies made one and brought home a half made one to show me how it was done. Meanwhile Ady and Scarlett spent some time sitting in on the YACs session – Scarlett will probably join when she is 8 which will delight Ady as I suspect he is itching to be a parent helper and that will free him up to do so rather than having to look after Scarlett on the YACs sessions when I am working :). They all three had a look round Michelham Priory before coming home.
I beat them home and arrived just as the beautiful sunny morning turned into an afternoon filled with bursts of heavy rain showers and glorious sunshine. Which put paid to our plans to spend the afternoon at the allotment with Caz & Bid. We had a proper plan including Bid and all the kids doing some food foraging, Caz and I spreading compost and all of us cooking sausages over an open fire and the adults having a well earned bottle of beer as the sun went down.
But no.
So a real genuine rain check taken on those plans I had a cup of tea and some toast and waited for the others to arrive home.
They did and Davies showed me how to make a pom-pom, they all had lunch and then we decided to do a charity shop trawl as Ady needs some new work shoes and has been convinced that charity shops / second hand is the way forward :). We all did well (me: two tops and a scarf, Davies a WALL:E toy, a new top, Edward Scissorhands and the box set of Back to the Future 1, 2 and 3 on video, Scarlett: a soft toy, new top and Lassie ornament) except Ady who didn’t find any shoes so the search continues…
We came home and the kids had tea followed by a bath. Scarlett and I did some baking to use up the egg glut we have from a regular 3-6 eggs a day from the bantams. Two big quiches and a very large lemon meringue pie from scratch (with sweet and savoury pastries) later we don’t have an egg glut any more :). A fair few years ago I started writing recipes in an old blue notebook which is now about half-full with handwritten, ingredient splattered recipes. I’ve always had this sentimental notion that one day one of my children might want it and that it might mean something to them but kept it to myself for fear of being laughed at. Scarlett was looking through it tonight as I looked at the lemon meringue pie recipe and said to me ‘this is special. I like that it has stains from baking in it’. I told her that one say she could have it and she looked all delighted and thrilled 🙂 Oh the joy of raising similarly sentimental offspring 🙂 😉
In the middle of all this we remembered Earth Hour. Our original, post-rain plan had been to attend the walk from Brighton Pier by wind up torch. The Pier is one of the places that turns off it’s lights for the hour. If I’d not got so caught up with my baking I may well have remembered this and cajoled everyone else into it but the rain was still lashing at the windows and Davies and Scarlett were already pj’d up so we settled for turning all the lights out, the TV off and reading by candlelight and fireglow instead which felt suitably inkeeping with the ethos.
I’d got a new Humphrey book from work so we read an hours worth of that before Davies and Scarlett went off to bed and I resumed dinner for Ady and I.
I got sucked in to a Johnny Cash film that Ady was watching and thanks to quite a lot of wine am already feeling like the leaping forward of an hour has already happened.
look, i read! just don’t always comment!!
Comment by HelenHaricot — 28 March 2010 @ 10:49 am
lol, I wasn’t after loads of comments, honest 🙂
I only tend to comment on blogs if I actually have something worth saying, and often I don’t bother saying that if I don’t get past spam traps on the first attempt,,,
I do remember the ‘good old days’ when there were about 14 of us on the blogring and we often used to get 13 comments on every post as everyone went round the ring and left ‘sounds like a great day’ comments on all the blogs 😆
Comment by Nic — 28 March 2010 @ 11:14 am
Tbh, by the time I’ve finished reading one of your posts, I don’t usually have the mental energy left to comment ;-P
Comment by Alison — 28 March 2010 @ 6:11 pm
thinking that Ady’s shoes could prove to be more expensive than buying new in the first place.
Comment by Michelle — 28 March 2010 @ 7:44 pm
lol every chance, but it’s not just a cost saving intention to buy second hand 🙂
Comment by Nic — 28 March 2010 @ 7:47 pm