Today was my deadline before my second extension for my TMA, so obviously I was frantically writing it up and trying to finish it off yesterday. :/ Wonder if I’ll ever get to a point where I don’t run my head into deadlines before I start doing something about whatever it is I’m doing? Anyway, given that it was my fault I was in a rush and not theirs, I was very good and laid it outside to assist with knitting when requested, and both children did indeed knit.
Small found a kit he’s had for quite a while and decided he absolutely had to knit immediately. We did a row together, and he pretty much got it – today he did another row by himself. Obviously it’s a totally individual knitting style he’s developed, but it appears to work for him – I am beginning to wonder if he’s actually more left handed than right though as he appears to do far more with his left that I would expect. I know he does all his writing and drawing right handed, but it’s with a very awkward grip, so I’m considering how to explore this further.
Big has got started on her baby knitting, she’s working on the lower left hat from this pattern. It’s far and away the thinnest yarn she’s worked with, but she’s coping with it really well – I had to do a row this afternoon to get her back to the right number of stitches, but it wasn’t disastrously astray, just several extra loops that hadn’t quite made it off the needle where they should.
Our main activity today though was the Ecotech trip. Coming from a part of the country with dual carriageways and so on, I’d looked at the distance, 67 miles, and thought, oh, about an hour, that’ll be fine, and got an unpleasant awakening when we plugged it into the satnav and that said 1hr 20. Turned out even that was optimistic and we were nearly 10 minutes late, which meant we arrived just as everyone was being gathered into a group – ie pretty much perfect 😉
Morning session for us was building model turbines, which Big loved, particularly as she sat with SB, and Chris kept an eye on her when I had to extricate Small for increasing frustration levels. He struggled with the day – he didn’t actually want to go when I proposed it, but I think overall he enjoyed it, he just really doesn’t do group activities, not least as he always seems to come up with an idea diametrically opposed to what everyone else in the group wants to do, so he doesn’t get to do it. Hm. Must think about this some more. I think overall that maturity with infrequent group exposure in the meantime will get us there, but I must keep an eye on it and make sure that he doesn’t just get set in a way of non participation just because that’s what he does. Or doesn’t, iyswim 😉
Afternoon activity was a trip up the turbine, apparently it’s the only one in the world open to the public, and rather put the entrance fee in perspective. Though given that there were activities, I didn’t think it was terribly steep – £9 for the two children and I got in free. The cafe was excellent as well – they didn’t have anything as a sandwich filling that Small eats, but were very happy to just do him some (nice) bread and butter, and didn’t even charge for it, bonus!
Trip home was just as tiresome, though as I wasn’t feeling under time pressure at least it wasn’t as stressful. Then I sauntered out to post my TMA (Tim hadn’t been up to the post office stroll, I think he has
Oh, although I have missed out the bit where I called up the local Brownie area organiser and arranged for Big to try out at Brownies from tomorrow evening. Sounds really lovely – they need more girls in the pack so as to be able to organise more things, and there are three other girls starting tomorrow, moving up from Rainbows, so she won’t be the only new girl. Fingers crossed this is the start of her making friends in the local area.
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