Can’t actually remember what went on this morning (maybe there’s a drawback to not brightkiting after all 😉 ) although I’m sure there was something that I was planning on blogging. Then just before lunchtime we decided we’d walk out with Tim to look at bikes at the other independent bikeshop in town. Tim wanted some lubricant as he’s sorting his bike out and we wanted to see what was available for the rest of us.
The bloke in the shop was very good. He thought that Big could actually go for a small frame woman’s bike, and brought out a Bronx vintage for her to try. She did really well on it after he dragged the seat down absolutely as far as it would go – considering that she’s not really ridden a bike much at all, I was impressed that she managed to ride it at all!
For Small there was another Bronx bike, that I cannot for the life of me find online, beginning to wonder if it is actually last year’s model. This one needed the back mudguard removing before the seat could be lowered for him to be comfortable enough, but once it was sorted, he was well away. I have told Tim that he will be doing the running around the park holding Small steady though!
And for me there was a Dawes Duchess, which I really liked. Very comfortable seat.
However, as the total bill at this particular shop came to £750 for all three bikes, we left without any. Small was not impressed, hardly surprising after he actually got to ride a bike 🙁 So we stopped at Subway for a consolation lunch out and ate it sitting under the shade of a local tree 🙂
Then we stopped at the other independent bike shop, and discovered they have a very similar range for adult bikes and a much worse one for children. But they don’t have helpful staff who drag bikes out and get you to ride them round their little carpark.
The visit was nearly once stop too far for Small, but he recovered enough to stop off in a charity shop and buy himself a Doctor Who Annual 2007
and a battleships game. Big and I bought yarn 🙂
Back home and I got my maths out and Tim retreated to his office to work. I found tennis on TV, which I do enjoy, and Big took up her favourite hobby of annoying Small. After they’d come almost to blows several times, he eventually ended up pounding on her head, and was sent to his room, where he took up shouting and screaming.
It was not a good end to the afternoon 🙁
Small pulled it together enough to go to Beavers, where according to the sheet I was handed at the end, they did experiments. He didn’t seem convinced when I asked him what they’d done. I took my maths and sat outside in the car – part of the reason Big is displeased with me atm, as she says I drop her off places, but I stay with him. I pointed out that when she was younger I waited outside places for her too, but she wasn’t buying it.
I remember as an oldest child being displeased when my younger siblings got what I saw as preferential treatment. It wasn’t things like parents waiting to pick them up though, it was them not having to do their fair share of housework, at an age when I knew that I had to do housework. She doesn’t equate the diffference in ages though, and no matter how much I try to explain the difference between the words equal and same, I’m not making headway on this.
Bleargh.
Wish I could remember what happened this morning. I think Big started reading her library book, Mill Girl
, and she thinks its good, so that was hopeful. And I think Small was making things, some kind of bookworm that involved a toilet roll and a very sad balloon.
Ah yes, that was pretty much it. He wanted boxes, that I didn’t have, and something else that I didn’t have either, and I came to the conclusion that I need to put together a craft box for him so that he can make things when he wants too.
Yes, that took us up to lunchtime, as related above.
Ah, I’ve remembered the other thing! Tim was going on his run this morning and Big went with him. I thought he’d be back in a couple of minutes with her upset and whingy, but apparently she did really well and they arrived back smily but out of breath. She says she isn’t going out with him tomorrow though 😉
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