and stiff, in a bizarre all things at once sort of way!
Not sure where this morning went really although I did answer the phone twice – once to my Mum and once to Lynda, both of which were longish phonecalls. We finally got out of the house to go to Tasha’s but stopped for petrol and then nipped into a big warehouse near the local recycling centre which is a hugh charity shop on the way. I got a load of bags of the wool used for needle felting all priced at just 70 pence each – bargain! Tasha had sent me a text asking if I had any cocoa as she was baking and had run out and the garage hadn’t got any so we popped back to the local shop for some and I decided to nip home too and collect my needle felting stuff so I could show Tasha how to do it as she’d been interested last time we talked about it. All of which seemed to take ages so we didn’t get to hers till nearly midday.
The kids disappeared upstairs with DSs when we arrived and Tasha and I had a good chat about all sorts of things. They then all decided they were hungry so we had lunch. Scarlett came back downstairs and said the boys were leaving her out so she did some needle felting and made a cat and a daisy and showed Tasha how to do it. She did manage to break 2 needles by bending them so I stopped her after that as I need to get some more (and a handle I think, to protect them a bit longer!) so she spent the rest of the time sprawled across me playing her DS while Tasha and I carried on chatting.
Davies and Toby started watching a film and then played playstation for a while before going back upstairs.They did come back to see if Tarly wanted to play but she declined (good for her I thought! ;)) and then they seemed to get bored of each other. Davies said on the way home they’d both got bored of the game they were playing and couldn’t think of anything else to play. It was 4pm by then so we decided to head for home.
At home the kids put on Princes Quest which I’d brought home from work and has been here a couple of weeks. They put it on really reluctantly as I said I was taking it back to work tomorrow but it drew them both in really quickly and they both really enjoyed it. They had tea while watching it.
I read a fair chunk of Dear Mr Sprouts (Its True)
My back is really stiff again and as I’m fairly sure it’s from sitting on the sofa with my laptop I’m trying to think of solutions which don’t simply involve never sitting on the sofa with my laptop again.
And the final news of the day, brought to you before she even knows herself is that Tarly will be doing Forest School from next week too! They didn’t have enough takers so have opened it out to younger children which she will no doubt be utterly thrilled about when I tell her in the morning :).
Sitting at the table with your laptop would probably be better for your back. Are D & S doing the tuesday morning forest school??
Comment by Liza — 18 April 2009 @ 12:56 am
Oh, well that was a nice result then re Forest School 🙂
Comment by Alison — 18 April 2009 @ 10:40 am
surprised that they didn’t get enough takers, the trial day here had to get split into two sessions so many ppl wanted to do it!
Comment by jax — 18 April 2009 @ 12:18 pm
Don’t mention the table Liza – I did once but I think I got away with it 😉
Yep tues am forest school for kids.
Jax, I’m surprised too although it was a narrow age range of 8-10 to begin with, it’s not cheap either at £75 each for the 10 sessions, so £150 for my two (gulp).
Comment by Nic — 18 April 2009 @ 10:46 pm
How much? Ours was £3.50 per session. P’raps yours is longer than ours though? Ours was 2 hours long.
Ours was run by The WIldlife Trust. Who is running your one? I need to see how I can get another course going and The Wildlife Trust haven’t replaced the guy who was brilliant and sadly died two months ago.
Comment by Michelle — 20 April 2009 @ 12:22 am
It’s 3 hours each time. I thought £7.50 was quite steep too but I think it’s more a price quoted by the Wildlife Trust (yes, also run by them here, the local Sussex branch) and then divided by however many kids participate so maybe less children in this group? It had better be good though at £15 a week for my two! (although I’m paying upfront so will write the cost off after this week!)
Comment by Nic — 20 April 2009 @ 12:34 am