Weekend snippets February 7th 2016

{watching} The Killing on Netflix. While cuddling up under the warmest snuggliest blanket ever. 

{listening} to Country music. Always. And arguing over the lyrics. Obviously.

{walking} in the woods. Loads of people there today, and lots of signs of Spring. No bluebells yet though.

{throwing out} a whole bunch of cheap charity biros. And wondering why we have so many pencils. So very many pencils. I don’t think I’ve got them all together yet either. I also found a cheap calligraphy set and two cheap fountain pens. But not my half decent fountain pen sadly. 

{visiting} the library. To discover that once again the lost book had reappeared on my card, and my fines had gone up to £36. I give up. The book only costs £13 to replace, and I’ve paid that twice over in fines now. I got cards sorted out for the kids, but I won’t be getting any books out for me. Except maybe ebooks, if there’s anything on that system. 

{feeling} that there’s something I’ve forgotten.

52 memories.

image (Yuck! Said the yak, from maverick books)

Snapshots.

Big went on another art trip, this time to the Saatchi gallery. Journey home was somewhat traumatic and they were over three hours late, so she missed swimming. Small has ordered a foil of his own, fencing is definitely his thing apparently. Smallest has had a good few days – did I mention last week that she swam in her lesson? And last night she read her first ordinary book (not a learning to read book) and suddenly she’s happy to give everything a go. Can’t wait for her to move on to chapter books. Tigerboy appears to be thinking about potty training, which would be nice.


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2 responses to “Weekend snippets February 7th 2016”

  1. We saw a bluebell yesterday. M took a picture as I didn’t have my phone with me. It didn’t look very happy. It was as if it had started opening and then realised the foolishness of the exercise, trying to go back from whence it had come.

  2. Oh and I once lost a library book. Best thing for lost books I did was as suggested by my library. Buy the book (then it is deleted from their system I think). When it turns up (I told them I knew it was in the house somewhere), they said to take it and the receipt in for a refund. So did just that.

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