Yesterday we got on to the lemonade game when we were trying to explain profit to Big. That in itself was a diversion after she’d declared herself unable to add 10p and 5p together. What with one thing and another though, she was off and about practising practical maths skills all day. After lots of time on the lemonade game herself, we took turns playing while she was haring about outside – Small spent most of his day in the garden, dressed in a bewildering assortment of clothes that arrived in a parcel from the portico (and thanks very much for that, he adores pretty much all of it 🙂 )
Some time later in the day we got onto cooking again, as mentioned elsewhere, Big cooked Hole to go beside her Toad 🙂 I was slightly nervous about this as I’ve heard that yorkshire puddings are notoriously difficult, and as I don’t like them (not being from yorkshire you see) I’ve never cooked them before. Nevertheless we had a go, and I’m told they turned out well. I’d retired to bed for a lie down by this point – I’m not good at my first day of period pain.
Can’t really think what else the day consisted of, I know I waded through loads of paperwork and threw out a bin load of envelopes. Oh, and I think I voted as well, do enjoy this postal voting business, although I could do without them making it so complicated. What’s with having a part of the paper that is perforated but you aren’t supposed to remove?
Today has been slightly more hectic. We stirred ourselves early this morning to go over to look at a house in West Yorkshire – it was OK, and also had a large enough garden that the children could hurl themselves around it screaming. On the way over we took a stab at explaining average to Big – I’m never sure how much of this she takes in, but discussion of the tortoise and the hare seemed to get us somewhere.
After house viewing and some more exploring, we had a quick trip to Morrisons, and then went off the path to join in a bring and share lunch. Turned out that two of the other guest families there lived on the same road as the house we’d been viewing, so we got lots more background information 😀 Lovely afternoon – went out for a walk with the latest addition to the off the path menagerie, and the kids as usual had a wail of a time in the garden.
We stopped for tea, and haven’t been back terribly long – just long enough to pour exhausted children into bed. I’m not going to be terribly far behind them – I just want to read a little of First Meetings: In the Enderverse
that I’ve borrowed. Been a weekend of prequels – on Friday my signed copies of Falling Free
and Cordelia’s Honor
arrived, and I enjoyed the first last night, as well as watching a terrible film, which I won’t recommend 😀 Despite that, it’s been a good weekend.
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