First time we went to Melrose there was Small, who really was small, and Big, who wasn’t. We went when he was toddling, and before he was talking, then missed last year as Big said she’d rather go to school. She changed her mind on that weeks later (oops) and had been looking forward to this for months.
First departure from the norm was our departure – within the timescale I was hoping for, and therefore despite the best efforts of well hidden petrol stations and nearly closed A1s, we arrived at a very decent time in daylight. The children instantly departed while I lugged bags up to the top floor, and I barely saw them until Small came and asked to go to bed. Only time all week he did that mind you!
Got first bottle of wine open, crochet out, and then Matt came up with a laptop and a page full of C code, resulting in me twittering to ask Andrea/ Ron the syntax for pulling something out of a 2D C array. (It’s been a long time. 😉 ) Had a really pleasant evening just chatting and fiddling with code.
Monday I went out into town to get saline solution and forgot that I was supposed to be buying baby lotion so that Big could do facepainting. She was very unhappy with me 🙁 That might have been the first night that I cleaned pans and played blokus as well, though I can’t really remember now. That’s one of the drawbacks to not blogging throughout, being completely incapable of remembering which activity belonged to which day.
Tuesday was orchestra in the morning (my children did not join) and computer game workshop in the afternoon (which you couldn’t have dragged them away from with the proverbial wild horses). I think all children not in quarantine of age 4 and up joined in with the game workshop tbh, Matt looked a little overwhelmed at times as he disappeared under piles of pictures of good guys, bad guys and backgrounds 😀 He chose Small’s pictures for the first level to be demonstrated and Small bounced throughout the demo of his work appearing in a game projected onto a wall. I think the workshop will really stand out for all the kids when they remember this Melrose, that and the crimped hair that just about every little girl had. Small spent at least one day dressed as a pirate chasing any girl with crimped hair – it worked better after he’d explained that was what he was doing. He really looks unbearably cute in the captain hook outfit, most ppl thought he was Prince Charming though!
Weds I’d hoped to swim, but instead, Big went to dynamic earth with t-bird and family and Small and I went into town again, this time to buy fabric to make the hood from the batman costume that we’d bought the pattern for the day before. (Which means that somewhere along the line I’ve missed a trip to town -should have got a discount in that fabric shop tbh!) I then spent the whole morning agonising about cutting out fabric – give me yarn and hook or needles and I’m fine, but sewing really isn’t my forte. Determined to crack that this year, very inspired by the craftzine blog that I’m following on twitter, with links to books like Jeaneology: Crafty Ways to Reinvent Your Old Blues
. Skirt on the front cover is actually one I could consider wearing…
anyway, I’ve digressed rather. Let’s see, I also did more knitting sessions, with SB, and Michelle’s C, a crochet session with Maddy, played much Blokus
(have added to amazon wishlist as mentioned previously), drank wine, chatted with ppl, stayed up far too late washing pans (and the skin on my hands is letting me know about it, vaseline intensive care here we come) and thoroughly enjoyed myself. Don’t know whether we’ll get to come again, given that it’s highly unlikely we’ll be even flexi-schooling by next year, but at least it was a good one to go out on.
Oh, I left early as had developed nasty head cold and just wanted to be home in my own bed (where I stayed until 12.30 today, so right decision methinks) and cleaned my room before we left. I found two false nails and a stray earring, so I’m looking forward to hearing that the warden was impressed at how clean the hostel was as we left, given it was obviously much cleaner than when we arrived!
Leave a Reply