another of those busy days

We made it to breastfeeding group, although the soft play area was shut off which was a disappointment. Dd behaved well and ate well, apart from the irritating tendency to hide under the table and leap out shouting boo while I was trying to persuade ds to feed.

Then we went off to ds’s photo shoot – he is going to be the local cloth clad baby for a new campaign to get ppl to reduce, reuse, recycle. well, assuming that the piccies come out ok. This was arranged by Sarah and so we went to her shop to do the piccies. Amusingly as the introductions were being done, the lady from the council said, I know dd already – turned out she’d been to woodcraft folk last week to do a talk on the three rs there. After that we called in at Yeoman’s camping supplies to have yet another look at camping accessories, and then came home. Long day out and about, and I think we did pretty well through most of it.

Another reading lesson tonight – I’ve decided that I can’t cope with the “I can’t read” complaints, so we’re going to work through 100EL to see if that will help. Dd crawled all over the sofa during the lesson, and ds (who was feeding) kept coming off to see what was going on, but we made it through.

It’s the local group meet tomorrow, but I lost the phone number that dp brought back from woodcraft folk, and although I got a different one out of the EO handbook, I haven’t managed to connect with the ppl concerned yet, so I don’t think we’re going to make the meeting (I don’t know where it is which is a bit of a handicap). Shame, so I’m just going to have to think of something else to do.

We might do this and maybe some more planting – everything we planted so far has died!


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