Petits Haricots

to the end of the week! we’re not packed, if it weren’t for the fact we are in a caravan at the other end, we might even be at the stage of missing the first day of our holiday [we’ve done that before] but the girls would be v disappointed - especially BB who has been in an absolute tizzy of excitement.

had to go into work this pm, for a critical meeting - hmm, just what i needed! managed not to cry, went to A and E to ask for more antibiotics, and howled there instead honestly, i need a holiday. this one might not do the trick though!! i am looking forward to it, and will be working hard to make it a success for the children and my sis - who btw has been feeling exceptionally rough this week [hugs for her, she rang on wed in desperation, so i mobilised gp and parents her way, and then events overtook me and i didn’t get back, thankfully she is ok]. i had already bought a sufficiency of yellow moon crafts [you might remember the boxes!!], but with SB being out of action, we have added ‘a few’ more!! SB also has 3 new ds games, the waterproof thingies, and we have packed the older bigger pushchair for her, so i think we have done what we can. i have 2 huge boxes of dressings to take with me - that and craft kits etc means the car as full as when we take the tent!!

so, where are we? well BB is doing alright really at trying to be considerate. she is a gorgeous girl, and she is trying [in both senses!] SB is obviously an emotional roller coaster. we have continued on with by the clock painkillers, as i think that if we control things well, she will be hopefully less weepy. She certainly is trying to use the crutched now, and managed to not be on a lap all the time - though needed 100% presence - which we could do, though didn’t aid packing! she has played loads with the gifts from merry’s girls - so another thankyou to them! particularly the girl dressing one.

nana and grandad  came over [they were going to babysit for us tonight, but after SB’s accident we cancelled!] and that gave both girls a boost - particularly BB. they also bore gifts, so SB did a lot of fuzzy felt. BB did some airdrying clay stuff with nana - very proud.

so i guess that is us signing off for a bit. though chris’s parents are housesitting [well, we have good pub access!! also lots of things need watering], they are unlikely to be blogsitting!

Speaking of good pub access, they seem to have rather less good access to good bands - thank goodness for a midnight finish of high angst wailing!

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poor SB. she had a dreadful night, and a dreadful day. bless her. chris and i also similar in dreadful night and day, as really you just want to wipe away the pain.

today, SB finally really grasped she wouldn’t be better by the weekend. i had been gently leading her to that, but the addition of the half plaster today - which she hates thoroughly - convinced her. the fact that we had already ordered waterproof thingummies didn’t appease at all. it hurt to have her dressing changed, the plaster is hot and heavy. she is miserable ++. i was still worried at the look of the skin injury [much more of a concern than the break] but prob most is a partial thickness with 1 large and 3 small full thickness areas. i had quite a discussion with what seems to be our family orthopaedic surgeon [well, he did little nanny’s hip, and i moved mum to him with her christmas factor]. he has a lovely and confident manner. so the plan is for me to dress it [ bit of a worry that] every 3 days and when we come back a reassessment wrt healing. so i am nervous that i will miss it if it starts to look infected [cos it looks truly dreadful!] but if i am worried, i guess a and e is our friend!

but yes, it looks awful, and she is on horrible antibiotics, and she feels down and waily and basically needed 100% hugs all day. this has left BB somewhat less than impressed, but TBH, she was much better about it than she could have been. [actually, should give BB quite a credit here really for taking second place without much tantrums] a combination of watching ballet shoes, finding nemo, playing games and the new ds game of zoo hospital which arrived today [she bought it] and giving analgesia [both paracetamol and ibuprofen] in max dose by the clock got us through, and i have cuddled her off to sleep.

just paranoid about healing!!

obviously we are not packed, we haven’t done anything round the house, and i am back at work tomorrow [no choice to take time off tomorrow]. hope SB ok without me [guilt of working parent]

arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

thankyou to merry and girls for presents, although SB not in an investigative mood earlier, she had a good look at them this evening and is really happy and glad to have lovely friends. she was also touched by email from various HE friends - thankyou.

i am starting at the end of the day, as this is where my head is parked. Poor SB got herself trapped in the bike wheel cycling back in tandem from judo. when chris carried in i had a look and heart jumped into mouth as a clear full thickness off in quite a large area - pretty much the whole of one side of her foot. so hopped into car and a+e . the consultant looked at it and we got x-rayed - calcaneal hairline fracture, but no weight bearing allowed. the full thickness friction burn has been dressed, and she is on antibiotics. looks really awful. i am worried about it. it is going to take ages to heal at best, and i am going to head in sand about other alternatives.

TBH, at the moment i am wondering what i am being punished for.

Bless her, she is really upset because on top of that we are going this weekend for our 2 week caravan holiday with my sister and children - beach, pool, ice-skating, walks etc. oh yes, she can’t do any of them. total crapness.

eearlier in the day we had a lovely time at the deep end doing science experiments and playing, but TBH, that seems decades ago.

sh thought this was good music to choose to cheer you up. it made me cry - you know you are messed up when s club 7 makes you cry!

she did like doing the karaoke version with me though.

i adore this man and this music - what a wonderful world if i listen to this back to back for a bit it REALLY helps!

and a bit of satchmo and ella - summertime!

for a different summertime version. i enjoy heifetz playing i think he had a really light touch with the violin - ideally suited for gershwin, as really easy to be overly indulgent with the music - singers get away with it, the violin doesn’t! He arranged a fair number of gershwin’s pieces, and was particularly good at sounding like 2 violins! a violin hero of mine - click through some of the other links!
this also helps - i believe it is also a favourite of Jax - somewhere over the rainbow

anyone else needing a chillpill and a musical rescue remedy?

Which is pretty much what the kids did today.

Up, a bit of screen time (Pingu and Magic school bus) before getting dressed so we could go across the road to buy bread, milk and marg to have breakie with a bit of Hama beading on the side.  After breakfast SB went off without the smallest reminder and did some maths (subtracting things like £6.13 - £4.85) and piano practise - though had to be reminded a bit how to borrow when subtracting. BB moslty played with the Geomags - she is really into them at the mo, we finally need to get some more I think. That and random 3 yo games with random objects, checked on the mushrooms in the mushroom kit - does;’t like to eat them, but fascinated by growing them.

Then SB started on some more Hama-beading, with BB also doing a bit. Whilst all this was going i was assisting in various ways, and being domestic - washing up, and cleaning out the fridge, cooking chickpeas etc. Sb then moved onto finishing off her T shirt that she was decorating for Amelie (late birthday present) . finished off the design on the front. Decided to write on the back - i wrote it down on paper for her, she spaced it out ok and then finished it off by writing Birthbag instead of birthday ! - it was funny, but I tried not to laugh as she was really upset by it. Helen laughed even more when she got home which didn’t go down well. Will try to rescue it - it hasn’t been ironed to fix it yet. Helen was trying to convinve SB that Ams wouldn’t mind, SB not convinced. all the morning passed without too many arguments
They both went off and did some bits on the Starfall website until lunch was ready.

After lunch I sat down for a ‘five minutes peace’ cuppa and to write an email in my role as Merry’s tech support . BB wanted to do a craft kit she found floating about - making bugs out of pom poms or some such. I said I’d do it once i’d had my tea, but then SB said she would help, so they went off to the kitchen to do it. Not sure how much BB did and how much SB, but they were both happy when I went in to see how they were doing so left them too until they stopped.

They both did some skating about for a bit at some point, so maybe that was now, then Sb helped me start to cook dinner - cutting up the Paneer and onion until H came home.

They played a Dinosaur ludo game - Sb didn’t like getting sent back it seems. Before long it was Ballet, more cooking, home from ballet, playing in the garden, feeding birds, Swimming, home to eat the curry that H finished off  - a treat of cookies that SB bought from the shop (with her own money)  when we got home. Bb to bed, while Sb and h played a game I think. Then I weeded the fruit bed, then time for coffee, chocolate and the last episode of Heroes Series 2 (a bit odd as it was cut very short by the writers strike.

and I’ve even blogged !

I’ve still got to blog my photo meme day from Friday, maybe tomorrow?

yes well, sunday.

i was at work for a lot of the day [and lets gloss over that shall we!], but did get to spend the afternoon and early evening at home with the girls. Although it was yesterday, my brain a bit weak on what we did! i know there was a lot of geomagging, kids k’nex and pattern blocks. SB did an excellent violin practice. we read some books together - and did some french simple words and a lucy chat. i think she had done some maths earlier? not sure!!

Anyay, we bailed out into the garden and played in the tent, and hama beaded. i watered some of the potted veggies. ermm, i think there was more, but the day at work proved stressful, and i guess i have just got a poor memory! i do know that when i got home at nearly midnight both girls were back up again, so i went to bed with sb, and chris with bb. i do believe i would have had no sleep at all without the reassuring presence of a child.

today i have been told SB has done maths and piano. she also has hama beaded, pompom crafted and made ams a t shirt, and we promised not to blog what she wrote on the back [bless her spelling mistakes] but i believe chris alluded to it in a twitter. since that bit wasn’t ironed [fabric pen] might it come out in the wash??

BB also did her t shirt and hama-ed, and happily geomaged and k’nexed. oh, and starfalled some alphabet stuff.
when i got home we played dinosaur ludo, SB to ballet, then to swimming. me and BB just pottered and played on the swings mostly, and collapsed in front of pingu and magic school bus. i must go to bed now as shattered!!

not such a good camping weekend, also not such a good weekend to try and show someone one of the tents - that I had as a teen with my parents. lots of happy memories tied in that tent. we have passed it on anyway, and I hope it is still in working order [and that the new owners do take a digiphoto of the tent step by step as they unfold it so it can be back in order]

I was at work for the morning, but got back in time to have some playing time with the deependers. the children all seemed happy playing together [well, mostly] haven’t found l’s trousers though. wonder if they are playing sardines somewhere!

we did - at BB’s request some ’speriments. i was trying out the beginning of electricity. though both wanted to do it, they didn’t want to do it together as it were, and i guess i am not being the model of patience at the moment, but we got there, had fun - particularly with static in balloons! i think i might start to have to do lesson plans!

We moved onto violin practice with SB, her in charge of how long, and she enjoyed - got to hovis advert! lots of cuddling, did a bit of french [things in the house!] and girls watched some magic school bus. BB to bed and SB and I read the isle of immeter [in the sir cumference series, which she really enjoys]

watching heros and listening to beat of talent free band at pub across the way [with sundry woos and wails!!] . thanks for hugs.

Thursday.

Off to Tots and Nots groups in the morning. Just in time for SB to take part in a French game with Katy. I sat with BB and did a picture with her made from different shapes cut out of paper. Bit of general playing and snack eating. SB did a picture as well. Drew a portrait of Helen. Gina whose does various music teaching there brought along some flutes. so they got to have a go with those. BB was interested, but didn’t want to try. SB managed to get some sound out of it without to much effort. Bit of singing of songs, then SB had her first recorders session with Gina. said she enjoyed it and wants to do some more. It should be becoming a regular thing.

By now BB was pretty grumpy - she wanted to go and watch SB playing, said she was hungry but didn’t want to eat any of the things  I had in the bag. Didn’t want to do anything I suggested etc. - probably tired (had woke me up before 5 am, though went back to sleep later) and hungry (only had eaten half a slice of toast and a modicum of yoghurt ).

Headed off home via Tesco’s for a few things - which was a bad idea - it’s a big Tesco Extra store and buying just a few things seems to involve walking miles. BB was amusing by the bakery counter. I was with SB a bit further along whilst she chose her bread, BB was sat in the trolley shouting out ‘ I want Spooky Spoon bread’ !   Spooky spoon (from the character in Numberjacks) bread being her name for a French stick - ever since we had one that was vaguely spoon shaped at the end and they kids dubbed it Spooky Spoon.

They both amused a mother at the veg bit. They were both begging me to buy a bag of Peas in their pods because they love eating them straight from the pods - but they were imported and rather expensive so I didn’t. Good to have kids who like consider buying bread and vegetables a treat though

Escaped  Tesco and got home to a late lunch of mostly Spooky spoon bread accompanied by a dose of Magic School Bus. SB did piano practice, and handwriting. BB got out her violin and played with that, couldn’t find her maths book which she wanted, so did some leap-padding. then they both got out the Geomags. BB got upset because they kept on sticking to each other and they bickered and argued over which Geomags they each had, could do with more really. I cooked some soup, which neither of the kids seem to like much - probably a tad too spicy for them. Helen came home and read some books with them - I caught one about Alexander Graham Bell.

Then off to bed.

BB, no its not sandstone, its sand rock! [so literal that girl, she has a favourite rock, so it can’t be a stone]

SB enjoying reading the sir cumference books with me in an evening, also various biography style - bell, edison, franklin etc

i am enjoying the smell of may blossom. my infant school had lots of hawthorns, and so this time of year always makes me think of the dusty den amongst them. i have def been feeling old of late. [mid life crisis?]

BB really enjoying doing stuff - she often asks for crafs, speriments, baking or her maths or writing books. cute really.

SB coming downstairs at nearly 11, rubbing eyes and pretending she has been trying to sleep, when i can tell what she has been doing is playing animal crossing for 2 hours!

I find it a bit amazing we have now done 4 photoblog thingies!

i am going to nominate today as the home-ed day in photos meme [please see previous in sidebar!], and will hopefully get the photos up! it is atypical, because i was at home, because i bailed out of a group today and declared duvet, and rainbows was cancelled. maybe chris will do one as well! thing is, i prob need the photos to remember what we did
8:00 they were both up with chris, so they prob watched something! had breakfast

9:00 I’m up! BB is doing alphabetting [using alphabet stencils to write the letters] SB is colouring in a rainbows picture, and then looking at the difference between the roman alphabet and ours. i read some dinodoor books with BB, we all do family members in french.

10:00 getting dressed and cleaning teeth. i look round at house and decided to spend the day in the garden! [ in fact t-bird gave me the idea with her tent-ed] SB makes a great go at putting up mini-tent [with BB being not too unhelpful, and even nearly helping on occasion!] . I shew them my bag of selected options [not exclusive, they could have gone and got somethig else], and both started with colouring. BB with crayons in a bible book [bought by chris’s parents] and SB in pencil on nice paper. She drew the garden first, and then started drawing my portrait.BB did some before the code.

11:00 sees us discussing the weather in french - well, learning some of the weather words and popping them into saying it is hot and sunny. we read part of a book about food chains, and then had a fruit break. SB chose the ladybird book about the spanish armada [no I’m arder!] for me to read to her. BB liked the guns, and then went off to play in the garden. [I am concerned about her!]

12:00 sees SB doing singapore maths 2B [halfway through] and BB and i looking at the extremely greedy starlings eating all the fat balls, and deciding to have a go at making our own. with a break for a who has the silliest face competition. SB finishes her maths and does it with us.

13:00 mostly lunchtime. SB made lunch whilst i put lard [yuk what a truly awful smell, but the birds have never eaten them when made with veggie fat] over our nut, fruit, seed and mealworm mix. SB made peanut butter sarnies for BB, avocado sandwiches for me [using same knife, so slightly unusual!] and cheese for her [fresh knife!] and we watched some nina and the neurons. About now i thought, ooh, we have done alot today, lets make it our photoblog day! luckily i always take a lot of photo when i am at home to prove i was there. BB did some fab geomags - she wanted to make a square [cube]

14:00 BB did a short violin practice - mostly just enjoying making noise. chris and BB went off to get some pallets from the orchard down the road to use to make an ad hoc empty compost bin [we have filled all of ours] . SB was going to do violin, but took rather a long time getting organised about it! we did do a violin practice too.

15:00 has us back out in the garden. BB in the sandpit and SB drawing with fabric pens on a white t-shirt. both then did lots of playing in sandpit, with water, on slide etc. chris made compost bin, i played hide and seek, and took some flower photos.

16:00 children happily playing, SB did some pot watering and had an icecream. i potted up the yard long beans and put into greenhouse [oops, forgot to say that in the garden blog - must put that right!]

17:00 no more photos. both girls in desperate need of a bath!! after that some tidying up in the garden by me, whilst they watched pingu. a recap on french words we have looked at today.
18:30 judo for SB, i read bob the builder books to BB, we had tea and I put BB to bed.

19:30 SB home and fed, a short look at zoo tycoon for DS and then also to bed [by chris] whilst i potted up toms and cucurbits.

21:00 with the binging of the church bells, the tv switched on and we watch the apprentice and blog. the end of atypical home ed day. with thanks to katy for being understanding of me need to duvet, as we should have been doing science and latin in the morning, which we do all really enjoy. i just needed some home time.

photos to be sourced and added [of course, to make it actually a photoblog!]

was RSPB walk day. we got there bright and early, which was nice, so all set off in the warmth rather than the heat. What a change a few weeks makes! def a nature walk, we looked at oak apples, saw how ‘the photo tree’ had suddenly become covered in leaves, listened to birds, saw the bracken growing, the bluebells fading, and actually saw a greater spotted woodpecker!

was a lovely walk, and we all really enjoyed it. bB wore herslef out a bit with all the running up and down the steps [her absolute favourite bit!] and we stopped just in time for a picnic on what shall henceforth be called Michelle’s bench! a gentle meander back to the car, and then to the manor house. girls didn’t quite gel. i think late nights, having seen quite a bit of each other and the heat. however, bit of stage-manageing here and there, and a number of apologies from my girls and it was OK. SB a bit all legs and arms though, and had hurt C a number of times, so went home wailing because she had upset her, and now worried about visiting again

oh, and BB calls ants and woodlice ‘antistons’ at the moment. not sure why! she does seem to have a thing for squishing them.

not very pc, but i was listening to jerusalem on classic fm, reminding me of this cd leeds festival chorus made whilst i was in it. it was good fun! so listen to a few excerpts! or youtube another version of jerusalem and i was glad

my left leg is covered in gysnormous and extremely itchy fly bites. my right leg totally not! of course i have scratched the tops off etc, but aargh the itch!

anyway, on return from work today i baked cinnamon shortbreads in gingerbread man shape with BB, read to both bB and SB some french words book [ la famille and les jouets] and a book about bees. i took sb to swimming, and she is coming along nicely. cannot for the life of me remember which badge she is going for though. no doubt we will get one at some point this term.

SB had also been to group sport this am, which she reallly enjoys, and ballet, which she adores, so always a busy sporty day for her.

Oh BB and i filled up the bird feeders, as michelle says, we keep the RSPB afloat with the amount of birdfood we get through at the moment.

i am seeing if we can afford for me to consider being part time - ie 3 day week. if we can [with chris earning something] then i might try and wangle that by next april if i can. i think i night currently have work phobia - i wake up nervous as if i either have exam, or if something dreadful about to happen. don’t think this can be normal. i am not sure we can really afford it, but then i think that i might not be able to afford to not do it IYSWIM. however, must have a bit of job security before i decide to make it riskier!

well here anyway, as SB and BB had a row about it!

before i start, why is it that as soon as i friends ans family flickr due to an overly persistant re-contacter, chris links to our blog from an everone view photo!! sigh!

anyway, it was another hot one today! started off in the cool with piano practice with SB. she wants to do more piano than violin at the moment, so i am hoping to facilitate that, but keep the violin ticking over. certainly her piano playing is coming on in leaps and bounds at the moment, and i guess this increases the enthusiasm. i’m going to try and find an easy duet book as well for that. [actually if i did more violin duets with her that would prob be a good thing too!]

SB then got on with some maths and handwriting whilst BB and I made some cheese scones [had to hide some so we would have some for tomorrows picnic!!]. we then did some lucy chat books at the beach - v helpful i now know the word for shark! and BB did some alphabet recognition.

All piled out into the garden under the gazebo to do some more crocodile making. SB has embellished hers so much with papier mache that hers is more of a thorny devil. bB’s was more minimalistic, and then she wailed because it was too wet to play with general outside play. chris and i both did bits of hoeing fruit bed, chris weeded some veg patch, i planted and SB watered. we have started hacking at the yew trees as well.

had some camping pancake mix left, so added cocoa powder to it for a chocolate pancake treat [bB’s idea] we all prefer plain! Then put up one of our tents in the garden for the girls to play with [the cheapy 2 person ‘festival tent’]

cooling down now - phew!

We had a sparkly start to the day, Butterbean found the glitter left from Thursday and decided she needed to make a glittery picture first thing. sauffice to say we have a nice pot of mixed glitter colours for xmas and the Dyson looks very sparkly inside…….. She had fun though.

Rousted around a bit after that to get out for a HE group felting session, managed to get there on time, which we often don’t manage. Since we did needle felting a couple of years ago at Kessingland this was a nice compliment to that. Helen who was organising the session had a nice simple technique for younger kids that worked well.

You use a Ziploc bag and a piece of bubble wrap in a rectangle about twice the size of the bag
1. Lay out 3 thin layers of wool in alternating directions for the background on top of the bubblewrap.

2. make your design on top.

3. Pour warm soapy water over the top to carefully to wet the wool.

4. Flatten down the wool to ensure it is all wet, re-arranging the design if necessary.

5. fold over the bubblewrap and slide into the ziploc bag. Squeeze out the air and seal.

6. Agitate - rub gently , roll up,  throw from hand to hand - whatever. You basically need to move the wool fibres around to get them to felt together, but not so much so that you mess up the desing to much. The longer you do it the more felted it gets.
7. Remove, rinse out soap and allow to dry.

Both girls enjoyed it, though BB did get me to  to the felting process and  I helped her  a bit lay out the design, though the ideas where all her’s. SB did hers all by herlself, tthough it could have done with a bit more felting.

After group we stopped at various shops for various things, got too hot (must get car air con fixed before we go away on hols) got home and all hid the playroom to cool off, Helen came home, had dinner etc. She did some French reading some of the Lucie Chat books I think.
Other than that, what else has been going on?

Thursday we went to  Merry’s for Amilies 6th birthday. Made cards first, which took up most of the remaining time in the morning, SB put so much Pritt stick glue on heres that she tend had to stick lots of glitter and etc. to cover up the glue. ended up looking like a house in a snow storm !! Did a bit of maths, Made picnic. Off to Merrys, picnbic turned into lunch on the table, off to the park where grownups lounged under a tree whilst kids got hot in the playground.

Home later than intended, BB fell asleep in the car then couldn’t quite decide if she was asleep or awake for the next hour or so when I put her into bed.

H and me caught up with this weeks Apprentice - excellent stuff. do wonder if sacking 2 for one of the weeks is part of the program design - otherwise surely it’d be a week longer run? but hey, it’s entertainment not real Life.

There was also Tuesday, but nothing exciting happened - library, unloading car of all the camping gear, lots of washing,  handwriting, music practice, my parents came round.

Now it’s the weekend and so many things want doing around the house and garden esp.  and we are going out tomorrow for our monthly woodland/bird walk with the Old Manor family. Want to go camping again though really.

I put a 2l bottle of fizzy water in the freezer yesterday to cool down for taking out. Of course I forgot about it and it got left in there.

I found it and took it out this evening whilst getting dinner, left it on the pantry floor by the freezer.

About an hour later, while having dinner there was an very loud bang , and what sounded a bit like broken glass tinkling about. So loud I thought maybe there had been some explosion outisde, H thought someone had shot through one of the windows.

But no, it was the bottle which had rather dramatically exploded - presumably the freezing and expansion of the bottle had caused some damage/weakened the bottle, then as it defrosted the pressure rose as the CO2 gas was released - and bang it went, spraying ice everywhere. Fizzy ice is rather odd.

SB loves the drama group, but she leaves by 9.30 and returns at 12.30. at 15.20 she goes to rainbows and returns at 17.00, at 18.20 she goes to judo and returns at 19.40. ie, I get to see v little of her on my day free, and I MISS HER! especially today when crappy with migraine, and the heat really hit me just as she was about. we played castle keep and did violin practice, but that was about it. bleurgh. at bedtime we have nearly finished the orchard book of arthur and the round table [a good book, but it couldn’t really follow on to michael morpurgo’s fab gawain and seem fab]

BB and I have had plenty of time together, and BB is also a delight more often than a tantrum throwing stroppy 3 year old! today we sowed loads of seeds together, watered and potted on [some things might not survive!], she then chose to play with pattern blocks with me for ages [and i had to be careful to only do the allowed bits!] and then we made towers and walls with the wooden bricks. being still dirty from the seeds, we had a bath.
She started getting a bit, well, 3 so we went outside for a run, and read a book all about tigers. i made lunch in time for SB’s return home, but i think the outside bit was the last straw for the migraine i was desperately pretending wasn;t there, so i had to lie down for a bit - grr - in a cool room. cue much wailing and jumping on me to see if better yet. however, chris got out paddling pool and as the temp in the shade became more bearable, i sat out and we narrated stories for each other - BB mostly being a crocodile!

sorted tea and BB then watched a MSB and to bed, SB returned and watched MSB and to bed, and chris has gone out. SB not settling v well, as not used to daddy out.