Given the number of Harry Potters in print, I find it slightly amazing how few there are in the charity shops in this town – our only find today was Azkaban, and we already have two copies of that. Oh well, we are sorted from the library right atm, I just wanted to be sure we had the books for the in between library phase we’ve got in our very near future.
Not that it’s going to be very near if I can’t get off my backside. My plan today was to go to old house, but having been up until about 2 in the morning with Big with a sore toe (I didn’t know she’d been cutting her own toenails, and she’s overdone it rather drastically on one which is now digging into the side of her toe instead of growing out straight. Hohum.) I instead lay in bed late. She was in bed late too, reading, and Small didn’t make it downstairs either, so all in all, as we breakfasted around 11, I couldn’t see we were going to make it out for the afternoon.
Instead we did Yoga
and then they decided it was lunchtime despite the fact it had only just been breakfast time! I’d had rather yummy porridge so didn’t feel the need for a sandwich as well.
After that Big putered and looked at her library book, I Love Yoga
. Then I spent half an hour coaxing, cajoling, pleading and threatening to get them ready to go out for a walk, in the end pointing out if we didn’t they would have no milk or cereal for the morning. This did the trick, and we wandered off into town to check the charity shops and pick up essentials.
Wholefood shop was a bit disappointing on bread flours, I wanted to try something more crunchy, but I couldn’t see anything that fit the bill. Charity shops were extremely disappointing – only purchases were The Story of Anne Frank (DK Readers: Level 3)
, Tiger Tales: And Big Cat Stories (DK Level 3)
and Invaders from Outer Space: Real-Life Stories of UFOs (DK Level 3)
which were bundled together without a price on the outer book, so we got for 79p for the three as that was the only price she could find on them and KS2 Science: Study Book
for 99p. Big is currently sitting reading about Anne Frank with the rest of them on her knee too, so I guess that has to count as a success :lol:.
Small came very near to a computer ban for ridiculously poor behaviour on and around roads, including running across the zebra crossing in Tesco’s carpark without looking. I don’t know what was up with him today actually, he was a pain in all the shops as well, particularly the supermarket where he decided to go on a go slow until told it would mean I’d leave the fake shreddies and go home without cereal for him. I hate having to blackmail him like this but it appears to be the only way to get through to him – reasoning doesn’t work when he’s in this sort of mood, and he’s too big to be picked up and carried about, particularly with a sciatica diagnosis!
Anyway, we also got cauliflower and broccoli which we’re going to have for tea with some pasta so I’ll actually get close to getting 5 a day into them for a change. It can be particularly challenging on days like today, when Small is not in a cooperative mood – we get the banana and apple juice and after that we’re lucky if he’ll eat anything other than bread. However, at Melrose he stole cauliflower out of my curry so I reminded him of that and he agreed that we could have it for tea tonight.
Am now wondering whether I can face imposing further structure on them this evening by suggesting they find their maths books, but Tim is out for the day so I’ve no fall back if Big can’t cope with me. I think I’ll wimp out.
Can’t wait to move away from this place – walked home past a house that had just been yobo-ed as well as passing yet another car accident on the Tesco roundabout. All the pavements are covered in rubbish, broken glass and dog dirt and it’s just depressing. It seems to have got worse just in the year we’ve been here – wonder if the council have run out of money for street cleaners. Not that you should need street cleaners as ppl shouldn’t drop rubbish everywhere 🙁
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