As previously mentioned, L needed a lie in on Sat morning, something to do with us all staying up far too late chatting 🙂 Plus she arrived here with a stinking head cold, and while she could have done with some pampering and lying around time, instead she had these two smallish ppl desperate for every second of her time 😉
So we didn’t go swimming – didn’t think it would help the cold or the tired but eventually it becamse obvious that getting out of the house would be a good plan, so after a leisurely lunch time (and finally getting through to the swimming teacher and arranging Small’s lessons starting Tues at 5), we dragged ourselves off down to the beach. At the house it was grey and a little foggy almost, so we all set off in jumpers, and I didn’t even pick up the sun tan lotions or hats, and I laughed at Big who insisted on taking a towel so they could paddle.
Halfway down the high street and I wasn’t laughing any more, nor was I wearing my jumper. The sky was blue, the sun was out and it was seriously warm. Only problem with that was the lack of suntan lotion, and I tried two shops, neither of which had any. Ah well, it was quite late in the afternoon, so I just hoped 🙁
We spent about an hour on the beach and L was the only one who didn’t paddle as converse all stars and skinny jeans are not really conducive to the endeavour. Small was having a fantastic time, hoiking his trousers up around his knees and leaping and screaming. Even Tim enjoyed it I think 🙂 Eventually L and I dragged Big away from the water so we could visit the Remnant shop, and Tim followed on with Small a few minutes later. Got the rest of the fabric needed for the teddy bear (yet to work out where I’m going to source the enormous amount of stuffing required!) and discovered that they do teddy bear joints in there. And animal eyes. So we bought large blue eyes, and looked at the joints, and the woman helping us this time said she thought the pattern (Simplicity 3787) was just plain wrong, and that joints of that size would result in a russion body builder bear. She advised getting started with it and then looking to see what size joints appeared to be required and coming back in at that point. Which seemed like good advice 🙂
Called in on D and S on the way back for a drink and sat in the garden while the children played, mainly amicably. And then home for a chinese take out – slightly better than the indian take out from the night before, so looks like I’m just going to have to get my curries from Sainsburys. Or learn to make them myself!
Leave a Reply