A lazy start to the day and we planned to go shopping in the morning but while I was having one more cup of tea and the children were already playing cavemen outside (latest game) my Dad arrived so he stayed for a couple of hours instead.
Ady changed the blade on his chainsaw for him and we chatted and drank even more tea and coffee while the children continued to play cavemen. This involved making a camp, building a fire, gathering flints from the garden and creating tools and finding sticks to use as spears. They are really keen to learn more about cavemen so I’ll try and track down some books for us to read. A combination of Stig of the Dump and Forest School along with much talk of the camping season nearly upon us seems to have been the catalyst for this latest interest.
Dad left, the children had lunch and we set off to Magic Lantern. We’d thought there was a car boot sale at a nearby rec. to the theatre so had allowed loads of time as the traffic always builds up there when the car boot sale is on but it wasn’t there so we had half an hour before they were due to be at film club. To kill the time we had a quick wander round a couple of charity shops where Scarlett found a china dog and a resin bush which she thinks is lavender in the 10p basket. Davies happened to have a pocketful of 10p pieces from his lucky dip scheme yesterday so he bought them for her :).
We dropped them off and they watched Singin in the Rain which they said they really enjoyed although when we arrived slightly early to collect them and went in to sit at the back and watch the end of the film Scarlett was a bit restless and fidgety. 2 hours is a long time for her to sit still though.
Ady and I went off to Tesco for the various things we needed and arrived back in Shoreham with time to look round the other charity shops we’d missed earlier. Didn’t buy anything though.
Back home Davies and Scarlett carried on with their game, came in for tea and went back outside to play some more before coming in the house to have showers in time to sit down and watch Primeval.
I got my bike out of the garage – I got it last year off freecycle and it’s my intention to ride up to the allotment on it in the evening to do the watering to save using the car all the time. Aside from hiring bikes at Centerparcs I’ve not been on a bike since I was 17 and got my first car and I didn’t do a great deal of cycling even before that really but it was fine. I did a circuit round the block and then a bigger circuit, probably only about 20 minutes cycling but quite enjoyable and definitely enough of a confidence booster that I’d happily cycle to the allotment on it now. I might even do so tomorrow evening 🙂
The kids and I watched Primeval and Britain’s Got Talent which they like to sit and watch as judges with pieces of paper to mark people as hit or miss before the judges on TV comment and then see if they were right.
Ady cooked a lovely curry and Davies came back downstairs to show me the lastest two stories he’s ‘written’. He has come up with a load of characters based on rubbish at a tip and is writing all the back stories for each character about how they came to be there before writing about their adventures. I say writing, what he’s really doing is drawing a series of pictures (about 20 per story) and then using them to tell the story but he’s up for either narrating them to me or trying to write them himself.