sunny saturday

yesterday had some stressful at work moments, but it was lovely to escape and drive in the sun to a flying visit to the puddles, and give a number of the family a big hug. whilst i was at work, SB had her last day of holiday orchestra and the concert. as usual she enjoyed the experience. must see when it is over summer before barracudas, or maybe even pgl, as we have a discount thingy…

today was fabulously sunny, and i had planned to go out cycling or a nice long walk and geocache. however, i think i am allergic to icelandic volcano dust, and have extreme allergic rhinitis and cold symptoms, and have sneezed so hard that my chest now in permanent pain!! so i thought the better of it. As i blog, i am listening to a birthday present – thankyou!

fabulous!

anyway, got up, messed around with girls. SB read her aquila magazine, and did the puzzles and sudoko, and we spent a while estimating the amount of urine one may pass over a life time… BB read another book!!

she was so proud of this achievement, that she declared she was so good at reading that she can now do it with her eyes shut. lol!! having got a pet dragon from her magazine [toxic] she spent a lot of the day playing with that! SB did a fair bit of music theory as well.

we went out into the garden, and chris put up our other camping acquisition – a tarp. we liked it muchly!! i thought we should try some ‘proper’ painting, and took out watercolours and paper. we all had a go fiddling about with it until we got some interesting results we were pleased with. SB got the hang of colour washing and letting colours blend. BB used the watercolour pencils happily, and i did some messing about! we spent a LOT of time messing about with the paints, and it was just nice to be in the sun together with no pressures. We have finished the second book of story of the world [finally!] so will start the next one, but then after that go back to the first again. I read to BB some book people first science/fact books [ ‘Wonderwise Collection’, 20 Books, Retail Price £119.80 (Wonderwise)], and felt they were too oversimplified really, but she enjoyed them. since they were from book ppl, not too expensive, and one day will donate to local library.

since we have cut down some trees and pruned others in the garden, i bought some mushroom dowels from thompson and morgan. unfortunately our logs aren’t actually quite the right wood or size, but never mind, have done it now! drilling, filing waxing and currently soaking. hoping to get some mushrooms!!

finished with dr who and then bedtime stories.