Sociable weekend

Yesterday was B&L’s joint birthday party, which was great. The magician who’d been hired kept the children enthralled for an hour, but then he did used to work with Lenny Henry. The weather was lovely and everyone enjoyed themselves and consumed far too many sherbet flying saucers. It featured a unique a capella version of Pass The Parcel, and a guest appearance of Tidy Your Room! We dragged them away with the promise of buying (rubber) ducks to race today at the town fête thing, but unfortunately the recent rain meant that the river was flowing too fast (rubber ducks have a maximum speed?) and so the race was cancelled. In the evening I mostly shifted boxes to make more room in the house. No unpacking to speak of, though!

Our second visit to our new local church went well, and then back for getting the house ready for a nice long visit from K&R and family (not the authors of the standard book on C), plus bonus visit from F and children who happened to be passing by. Some more going to the fête, lots of eating, computer games playing, running about loons, and having a nice time. Next to the fête was a community room which turns itself into a local history museum on summer weekends, and I popped in searching for a French Market that we thought was part of the fête but is next week. Mmmm brioche. Anyway, the museum was small and I was due back to child mind, but I did manage to see the Roman pots, the skull and the fact that there were lots of things to read another time and take the children to.

Also this week I managed to finally read Peepo to the children (supposedly L, but the boys joined in too) when they were in the right mood to talk about its history. We went through the pictures comparing their house to ours, the main character to A, and I said that it could have been about their grandfather.

Katy is trying to reassert normality on the home education front after the huge hiatus of moving house and then going away for a fortnight, which has met with more resistance than it should have done, but has started to bear fruit (and should meet with less resistance next week).