Saturday Snippets 28th February 2015

{watching} Pretty in Pink. Which wasn’t what we cued up for family film night. We’d found some Adam Sandler comedy that we thought would do nicely, but when the time came Small was too busy with his game, so he went off with the DS and the small children as his audience, and we watched Pretty in Pink.

It wasn’t like I remembered. And it certainly isn’t how I remember the 80s. Did every American teenager have their own phone line – really? And cars. Did they all have cars (apart from the ones who were so poor they only had a mattress on the floor and a bike). And I do wish they’d filmed the other ending, the one that’s in the book.

{eating} bacon, salad, part baked baguettes. Pretty good and very quick dinner. One of my go to after movie meals.

{learning} about the 1920s. Big is branching out in her reenactment, and taking part in the multiperiod reenactment over May bank holiday at Kentwell. Which is a whole new learning curve – she’s doing a lot of work on it. (You can read her take on it on her blog from 9 in the morning.)

{planning} a trip to the Zoo. We’re going to Colchester Zoo tomorrow to learn about frogs. They have a handy app for iPads so Smallest has been planning our day. It will involve penguins apparently 🙂

{practising} being creative. Which today was more about photography than drawing. I got some absolutely beautiful flowers for review (coming very soon, and including a discount code too) and spent a bit of time playing with closeups, and posting definitely not #nofilter pictures to instagram. (More like #allthefilters 😉 )

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Big, like I said above, is immersing herself in the 1920s, and in research techniques, organising and project planning. Small has finished the second of his Christmas games, and I’m still working on persuading him to write them up. Smallest is taking more and more of a lead in her own learning, and it’s a pleasure to assist. Tigerboy can bypass the lock on an iPad, play in minecraft, and manage angry pigs and downhill racer. Sometimes that boy makes me nervous 😉