Today Tim was reading the blogs (as we do) and took time out to dunk the penguin. Small found this fascinating, and was soon set up on the bunnyhero labs site, clicking on various animals for all he was worth. This led to a discussion of how bats find the things they eat (and what it is that they eat), and then of course discussion of echo location and how that would work. You really can find education in just about anything 🙂
Yesterday was our second offset Friday. I don’t think we’ve quite got the hang of this yet. I’d been up late the night before dealing with a problem on a site, and accordingly I wasn’t really in the mood to do anything much in the morning. We went out for lunch again, this time to our local Tesco, where I found a wonderful example of customer consultation – apparently they want to rebuild the already enormous and pretty new store to be even bigger and they’ve got a huge display all about this, and how it’s going to be good for the local area and environmentally friendly, and absolutely marvellous for all concerned. And they really want customers to tell them what they think – which is why the beautiful display is in the basement cafe, and you’d only find it if you went down there on purpose, oh, and they’d run out of the consultation forms as well. The only thing they were missing was a sign saying “Beware of the leopard”.
Other than that, Friday passed by in a dazed way. Today the children have painted their reduced Easter dreamcatchers, and Small is now on cbeebies website, while Big is still playing with the animals. I did ask them earlier what they’ve been doing at school, Small was unable to stand still while telling me about it, but I think the gist of it was that on one day he did some sandpaper letters (but when 0 came and the wind blew they all went away again), and another day he did sandpaper numbers, and there may have been some golden beads involved too. Hm.
Big, by contrast told me that she’d been doing pinpushing. I had no idea what this was, but apparently it’s something to do with drawing round the shape of a continent on the same coloured paper, and then putting it on felt and pushing pins into it to perforate the paper (or in her words make little circles) and then you can push the continent out of the paper. You can’t use scissors because it goes in and out a lot. There has also been science (pickling an egg in vinegar and recording observations every hour), 10 minutes reading every morning (I wonder how they stop her when ten minutes is up? Here I only succeed at the end of the day by turning the light out and then she can’t read any more!), maths and some other stuff she wasn’t entirely clear about.
Tim has gone out to look for fence panels – he’s finally admitted that he doesn’t actually want a summer hobby of rebuilding the fence panel by panel. And we need to sort out a plan for the garden – I’m wilting just thinking about it. I’ve to put some washing in, and I might sort out the kitchen too. Tomorrow is yet another party in Brighouse (for one reason or another we’ve to be up that way for the next three weekends running 🙁 ) and then the merry whirl of working week starts again.
I feel like I’m in some bizarre race – if I can figure out how to reorganise my life to live in a different place I might win enough time to enjoy it, until then it’s just racing faster and faster to get everything done in time, and I don’t ever quite manage it. There’s washing out on the line that’s been out there since Monday or Tuesday – but I never seem to get to it at a time when it’s dry. Does anyone else feel that it’s almost like someone swapped April and May around this year? Still, at least it means I don’t need to be watering the poor pot bound fruit trees. I’d really hoped we’d be moved somewhere where I could plant them out, but it doesn’t look very likely in the near future.
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