although why I spent them in Sainsburys I can’t imagine!
That was the afternoon though. The morning passed in the standard haze of ‘putering and refereeing small squabbles about who had overrun their turn and so on. Won a knitting machine on freecycle – principle is that we can give it a try, if we don’t like it or get a round tuit, we can put it back on freecycle 🙂
Also, this expands my knowledge of areas of the next somewhat larger town. So far both freecycle trips have taken me to places I really wouldn’t want to live, purely because of the complete lack of anywhere to put a car. Although now that we only have one car it would be almost bearable, but not very.
Picked up knitting machine and headed to Sainsburys and homebase. Homebase deeply horrid – was trying to check out furniture as we’re considering desk/ bookcase arrangements for the children, so that they won’t be hunched over the tv desk using the media centre as their IT workspace. Atm there’s an old dresser taking up a 2m slot of wall that we don’t need, and has little sentimental value as it’s not actually Tim’s dad’s, that got removed to his brother’s house, and it’s his brother’s old one that is here. But all the stuff on it I’m guessing is Tim’s dad’s, and we’re out of inspiration as to what to do with it.
So, homebase. Barely any furniture, and what there was I wouldn’t give roomspace too. Did find a copy of Serenity
for £1.99 (Tim had texted me previously from a different homebase to ask whether he should buy, but my phone was turned off, so he didn’t. Can only assume he didn’t recognise Summer Glau on front cover without his glasses or he wouldn’t have been asking 😉 ) so that was a good consolation prize.
In to Sainburys to see if I could get the cereal that had been out of stock when Tim went the other day. No, would be the answer to that. Couldn’t find the coleslaw either. But Carte D’Or was on offer, so not an entirely wasted trip 😉 Also picked up a Stabilo Easyergo Right Handed pencil
for Small (although in blue, they only stocked blue and pink, although they did have right and left handed) in the hope that it might encourage him to use a more conventional pencil grip.
I know that he manages to write legibly with his fist grip atm, but it does hamper him in things like painting, and I thought it might give him more options as well. Brought it home and got him going – he immediately grabbed it in his fist but that didn’t work too well. Showed him the alternative grip and he was away, it seemed to make no difference to either his speed or legibility. How does he do that? If you asked me to hold pencils totally differently to how I normally do I’m sure it would make a difference to what I produced!
Bought Big some new swimming goggles – can’t buy one without the other. Should have done given the reaction the goggles got – they are not right apparently. She was jealous of the pencil basically 🙁
Spent a bit of time in the garage looking for the Base 10 blocks as they would come in useful for the maths that both of them are doing right now. Couldn’t find them, but we did isolate my stash boxes – I have 5 plastic crates of mixed yarn and material. Tim thinks this is excessive, I don’t. Opinions in the usual place 😉
And that was the afternoon disappeared.
Rustled through the remnants of the veg box and did new potatoes and green beans with salad and a variety of protein sources depending on individual preference for tea. Yet another family meal – Tim and I are enjoying them, Big is ambivalent and Small is unimpressed as he’s being told things like sit on your chair properly by both of us regularly. (We told him that when we didn’t have family meals too tbh.)
Then maths/ reading and bed time. We finished Kaspar
(I cried) and Small is onto regrouping. Did put in order for lots more maths books (before I saw your message Jan, although still interested in what you have as it’ll be different editions and maybe therefore still worthwhile practise?) so they should arrive in a couple of weeks too.
And then Tim and I watched Serenity. And enjoyed it rather a lot actually. Excellent dialogue, fairly high on the gore count and probably rather less annoying than the firefly series must have been.
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