Wore my glasses today as I’m getting though a bottle of eye drops every couple of days with my contact lenses atm. Need to sort that out really, but last year when it happened they couldn’t really explain it, it’s some sort of hayfever related thing which creates protein build up (or gunk as it is techinically known 😉 ) and then coats the lenses. This makes my vision all blurry and can be cleared very temporarily with eye drops but it makes my mascara run and eye drops are expensive! A pair lenses (I use the all day all night ones) are supposed to last a month but during the summer I could do with a new set weekly. Wondering whether to go to daily disposables through the summer perhaps? Not sure, will make an opticians appointment for next week sometime and ask them.
Anyway I rarely, if ever wear my glasses. When I do I would love to think of them as an accessory giving me a whole new dimension to my appearance akin to Lisa Loeb, or make me look intelligent like Alison & Jax manage, or wise like Helen, or funky like Kirsty. Instead I suspect I look like Nic wearing glasses – not really any different but without the head tipped back mascara running eyedrop application every few minutes 😀 By coincidence Ali was also wearing her glasses today so I suspect we looked like Nic & Ali pretending to be teachers or something!
Anyway… this morning there was the chance my Granny would be coming over (now she’d have had a comment to make about them making me look slimmer or something I’m sure!) so I had everyone dressed by 9am, no mean feat around here! I got some washing done and on the line and compiled my camping list. The children appeared with some workbooks (WTF!!?? 🙂 ) and Davies sat happily doing a cat in the hat one while Tarly messed about with some letter formation ones. On the back cover of the CITH one was a cut out optical illusion – two circles of card, fish on one, fish bowl on the other, glue them together with string in the middle, spin them and the fish appears to be in the bowl. So we made that and D was of course thrilled with this given his interest in optical illustions, his love of CITH and his burgeoning interest in all things animated, I think flick books would be a good next thing to show him actually, must google and see what I can find.
We went over to Ali’s where the children pretty much left us alone and played in the garden. The price to pay for this was my two covered head to foot (with copious amounts in their very thick hair!) with ash from an incinarator! We decided this was not so bad and even let them back out again after lunch but when it all went quiet in the garden and I went out panicked about their disappearance from a secure garden I found they had managed to lean on a fence panel which had given way and let them into the alleyway running behind the gardens. They were all out there looking confused, dazed and slightly bewildered as they truly seemed to believe they had found some sort of secret door to another world or something! 🙂 We brought them in at that point but they did continue to play fairly well although there were casualties in a very wet bathroom floor I believe…
Ali and I did some stitching and bitching 🙂 Ali failing to complete Freya’s costume for the party tomorrow and me making some headway with cuddly Totty for Tarly. Nice though 🙂
We came home and the children disappeared into the playroom to play some game – Ady has tidied up so I don’t even know which toys they were playing with but it sounded fun! Ady arrived and took over bathing them (apparently the bath water was very black 🙂 ) and I went over to my parents to get some water from their pond for our tadpoles. We started with about 100 frogspawn and now have about 50 tadpoles, they seem to be developing back legs OK and then dying shortly after the front legs sprout and their tails reduce. Need to read up on them a bit, but we did know we would lose most of them. Ady and the children transfered the live ones to the fresh water and looked in depth at all the dead ones at their various stages of development which they seemed to enjoy.
It’s been a lovely day actually and furthermore It’s Friday 🙂 🙂
LOL at us with our ‘teachery’ glasses on – you actually do look quite different with glasses on, and I seem to recall you weren’t even doing cleavage today, so even, er, differenter.
They did have that ‘secret door’ Enid Blyton/Narnia (oooh sacrilege combining those I expect) look about them didn’t they? Like real kids in story books. Aaaah. Mystery of the Secret Horse Poo Lane…
Sorry about the ash – I suspect we will have to start emptying the incinerator before visitors from now on, since all visiting children now know about the ash and seem to make a beeline.
Upstairs, by the way, they did a bit of semi-workbookish puzzle stuff in F’s comic about dinosaurs, so kind of edjikayshunal too. They also had managed to spill water out of a tightly lidded jar of water, but carefully avoided knocking over a foolishly placed pint glass of water. Gotta luv ’em, eh? Davies had sensibly organised them to mop up water with F’s swimming costume!
Was a nice visit, see you tomorrow.
Does Davies like Captain Underpants? Flp-o-rama is an excellent animation technique, imo!
I’d never heard of Captain Underpants before but a quick google shows him to be exactly his sort of thing – thanks Dani, will investigate further 🙂