When I grow up, I’m going to fly an aeroflane

Today started way, way, way too early at about 6am. 🙁 I’ve been so tired just lately and although I am managing to go for a couple of walks a week I am really lacking energy and enthusiasm for anything. We’ve been watching lots of films as part of the free trial on Tesco dvd rental and I don’t think I’ve seen the end of any of them due to falling asleep about an hour into the film every time. Last night was no exception.

So me and the children were up from 6am and we spent our time playing Xbox. I can actually understand why people are into gaming, it is quite addictive 😳 I’ve just won a Willy Wonka X box game on ebay and have bids on Cat in the Hat, Hello Kitty, Super Monkey Ball and Tetris too – all of which I’ll put away for Christmas if I win. Well maybe not the Tetris, that might be for me 😉 I remember spending hours playing on Frazer’s Game Boy years ago on Tetris. Oh and his Donkey Kong, BMX bandit and pacman games too. Funnily enough I never had my own, just used to bribe him with things to let me play his. 😆 We got a second controller for the Xbox – a slightly smaller one than the official one that came with it, which is better for Tarly but she is going to take some getting used to playing with it I reckon, and probably needs to do it when her ability is not being relied on by Davies when they are playing toegether.

Ady had his lie-in (which he bitterly missed last weekend 😉 ) and we headed off nice and early to the local car boot sale. The children were both up fairly late last night – Scarlett well past 9.30pm and so were tired and didn’t do well with the sudden heatwave we’ve had again this weekend (Davies actually has mild sunburn under his eyes :oops:) but we did have a successful day W&G wise with Davies getting a puzzle for 50pence and two books for a pound. Tarly pulled her usual cute blonde princess act and got a free bright pink poodle soft toy from some naive old lady who fell for it. Honestly, that child comes away with something free every single week! 🙄 We bumped into Colin and Lucy there, I was hailed by a lady who used to come to the original Home Ed group I ran with Jenny last year and Ady saw a couple of people from his old work too.

We left there and popped home to collect a picnic then headed up the downs to find a good viewing point for the air show. We started in one field which had a fab view of the sea and the far side of the airfield but after eating we explored a bit further and a ten minute walk netted us an even better corn field, filled with other people settled in with a full panoramic view of the airshow and the crowds who’d paid over a tenner each to get in below. We were there for a couple of hours, the children veered between happily running about, sitting on my lap and eating the picnic. We had a who can make a minstrel last the longest competition, Tarly did loads of drawing and ‘writing’ (Tarly style) in my diary and Ady sat oohing and ahhing, taking photos and video footage of the planes. Tarly and I had a chat about bombs, the world wars, how planes were used for fighting and evacuation of children from cities while there was a WW2 reinactment style dog fight and explosions, Davies and Ady had a slightly more indepth equivalent about wars just out of our earshot. The children were starting to get really restless at the end so we watched what we assumed (judging from what we saw and heard from our garden – about a mile away from the airport – yesterday) was the last couple of jets and then packed up to walk back to the car. We had got a few paces down the lane when our ears were practically blown off by a Mig jet so we headed back to watch that. Tarly went from hating ‘aeroflanes’ to deciding they were the best fun ever and that she wanted to ‘be the one to make them do crazy upside down stuff’ when she grows up (that’d be a pilot then 😉 ) while Davies just stood there with the craziest grin on his face and we were deafened by it roaring over our heads.

When it finally headed off again we started back towards the car. As we crossed one very recently mowed field we spotted a (dead) slow worm. I’ve not seen a slow worm since I was a child – they used to be everywhere, you could guarantee that if you dug about in any long patch of grass you’d find a couple. Don’t know whether they are rarer nowadays or I am just not so into digging about in long patches of grass looking for slow worms now. We had a tank full of them in the classroom when I was about 10 and they were hugely educational, shedding bits of skin and stuff. As we were investigating the slow worm we were spotted by Lucy who was also up there watching the planes with her Mum, R & R.

We headed for home, via a conker tree where the children had tea and early bed. We have had a lovely roast dinner and are drinking the bottle of champagne from Lovely Ros for our anniverary last week as it has been the first time we’ve sat down at a decent hour since then. Thanks Ros 🙂

Tomorrow is a day at home and then we have plans for the rest of the week. So I imagine there will be X Boxing! 🙂