But before we get there, details of the shopping spree I undertook this afternoon 🙂
Courtesy of the book ppl, I ordered Usborne Internet-Linked French for Beginners with CD
, French club
, Hide and Speak French (Hide & Speak)
(which comes with a collection of activity books, looks a bit young, but Small does like activity books 🙂 ), George’s Secret Key to the Universe
on Jan‘s recommendation and a bunch of Usborne Spotter’s guides because it includes Shells and the seashore as well as a bunch of others that will come in handy.
Looking forward to all that arriving, hope we can keep the momentum up til they do!
Anyway, I got up out of bed to get Big organised for Brownies, and we strolled down to find the assistant leader waiting outside. Now, I should wind back a couple of days, and note that Tim took a call from this woman, saying that contrary to what the Brownies would have told us, they weren’t going to the beach this week. Given that our Brownie hadn’t told us anything about it, we were quite pleased to get the call. But note the *not* going to the beach bit, because the first thing the leader said was “so do you want to go the beach then?”
No, I’m not following either. And neither was Big. When we’d quizzed her about the beach thing following the call she said that they’d said they might be going to the beach but not when, and we certainly hadn’t gone equipped this evening. She was wearing a gilet and short sleeved shirt, no cardigan and doodle shoes, not really beach wear for a cool slightly damp evening.
Anyways, when offered the beach, she looked decidedly less than impressed. The one other little girl there was bouncing up and down with excitement, and Big just started moaning that she didn’t have a cardigan. So I said I would wait with her and if all the other Brownies wanted to go to the beach, then I’d take her home, as we didn’t have time to go back to fetch a cardigan.
Helpfully at this point, the leader said they wouldn’t be going for 15 minutes, meaning that I *did* have time to go back, if I got a move on, so I promptly did, going home as swiftly as I could (which, let’s face it, is not very swift atm), chucking her coat, cardy and boots in her bag, then leaping (yeah, right) into the car and heading back to drop it all off.
Was really glad I’d had that lie down!
Dropped the bag off and was told in passing that I’d to pick her up somewhere else than usual, and came out a little less than impressed at the whole shebang. There was a group of mothers clustered at the gates having a very similar conversation, so I joined in, to check whether anyone else had known about it, and basically, no they hadn’t. One of them was very complaining but I didn’t join in with that bit. Beginning to wonder whether this Brownie group is just going to evaporate away from us though 🙁
Home and thought I’d pick up and deal with the swimming forms as I’d to pick Big up from near the swimming pool. Then of course discovered that we didn’t actually have the direct debit form 🙁 So went early for the pick up, paid for her first two lessons and coastal card with cash, and picked up the direct debit form which I’ve to drop off tomorrow all filled in and signed up.
Picked up Big to find her in another negative spin, this time about the singing practises they’ve been invited too, which run from 5.30 to 7.30 on a tuesday evening for 4 weeks. Only slight hitch being that her swimming lessons start a week before that and are at 5. Given the practise is 2 hours long (2 hours? And they want Rainbows to do that too? I can’t see that that’s going to go down well with very many parents) I daresay she could get by with arriving half an hour late, but she’s not impressed with the idea. I’ll try to talk with Brown Owl next week.
So that was our evening. Got home to find Small listening to Meat Loaf again, think he really rather likes it 🙂
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