a rather less successful reading lesson

but all in all a pleasant afternoon and evening. Dd didn’t request the tv on when we got in – instead she wanted her bi blocks out. Then it was tea time, and she wanted to play dominoes, so we had three games, and she won all three. After tea and bath, we went for a reading lesson instead of watching Maggie, but that didn’t work too well – she may well have been a bit too tired for it, and the concentration certainly wasn’t there. I think there are some sounds that she struggles with – I was sent to Speech and Drama lessons for a lisp, and I think she’s got a touch of one too. But a lot of the problem tonight was that it was funnier to make daft noises than it was to comply with the instructions, so I quit. No point in getting myself stirred up over it. We’ll fit it in tomorrow I hope – we aren’t planning on going out until her dance class, so hopefully we’ll have time for a few things that are outstanding – some planting, two reading lessons, card for grandfather, couple of competition entries, plus I’ve some stuff to post (so that’s a nice walk to the post office as well) and some papers to find for some phone calls I’ve got to make.

Ooh, hadn’t realised there was that much outstanding, sounds like we’re going to have a busy day! We also bought some scone mix (sorry Roslyn ) as I thought that might be an easy was in to doing some baking together. It doesn’t have any instructions with it though (apart from just add cold water), so I don’t know what temperature to bake it at – should be interesting.


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