A lovely day of many friends

Started the day with a lie-in, always good :)Then hurtled myself out of bed at 9.47 as Kris was due at 10 (although the agreement had been ’10 – very ish’ to be imprecise! 😉 ) and I wanted to be clean before she arrived. Managed that with time to spare, and then got to spend a pleasant hour and a half, first of all dealing with the fruit trees I bought at Aldi last weekend (I really should have blogged the carry on of a couple of nights ago, me hoisting fruit trees over the garden fence to put them in the garage wrapped up in bubble wrap to protect against the frost. Must have looked highly amusing to anyone not freezing their extremities off pampering their trees) and then just having a cuppa and looking at landrover discoveries online. Can’t wait til she gets her full gardening website up and running, complete with advice, hints, tips and guidance 🙂

Before she arrived Big made a present for C, and after they’d gone, we grabbed a quick lunch, then headed off the path. Lovely afternoon there – I discovered that various small ppl do think I’m alright (got a wonderful snuggle from J, he’s a lovely baby 🙂 ) and was also pleasantly impressed at how Small just kind of joins in with the gang these days.  Loved how M looked after him too.

Big did OK, but basically she’s not really a party gal. She enjoyed the crafts that Jan had laid on, and she played pass the parcel, but she sat out of the rest of the party games, and didn’t really hold her own with a group of girls she didn’t know. She enjoyed herself much more when the rest of the guests went home, leaving our hosts and Barbara’s family. Gave us adults time to converse while our children amused themselves, covering a variety of home education matters, like the current discussion on uk-home-ed about possible forthcoming legislation, straying only briefly into the wider ranges of politics (what role should society play in the raising of children and in their education), with a passing reference to anti big supermarket websites such as tescopoly, every little hurts and fewer reasons.

And then there was a moment of triumph. Small appeared in the doorway with a blood pressure cuff around his arm. That’s a sphygmonometer says Jonathan, can you say sphygmonometer? And Small looked back, and said “spimomeder”. Wahey! This child can talk. 😀

Decent drive home just as the snow started again, and I’m pondering political and other issues, while half-heartedly watching Planet of the Apes [2001] (why is a word that springs to mind!) waiting for the rerun of the Galactica episode I missed earlier in the week. Can’t remember now why I missed it, but fairly sure I did.

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