Kentwell was fab – and blogged so well by Michelle that I shan’t really bother 😛 except to say that we saw Rebecca, J and R and that was lovely 😀 Oh, and the car petered out on the A11 sliproad, which was less lovely, but it started again after a few minutes, so could have been worse.
On Saturday the Rainedrops departed, much to the distress of our lot – we must get organised and meet up over the summer 🙂 There were about 5 things we could have done that day, but I don’t think we did any of them in the end; none of us deal well with too much choice 😆
Monday was CHEF sport, which L decided she would like to try, since J would not be doing it. Unfortunately the traffic was bad, so L and K missed a fair chunk of their session, but enjoyed it anyway, while J played with J who was also off sport, thanks to surgery. We ended up staying rather longer than expected, but decided not to go to the park as well since J was rather tired and the weather didn’t look promising. It’s not the same without Susan and K anyway. We were waiting for a call from a friend to say that lots of Suma stuff had arrived and we should go and pick it up, so didn’t really want to go home and then have to turn around and come back. Gina came to the rescue with an offer of playing at their house, which turned into lunch – just as the other friend phoned and asked if we’d like lunch there, so we could have had two lunches that day 😀 Picked up lots of Suma stuff, then talked briefly about dog-sitting and whether we might be able to do it for them as kennels wanted £17.50 a day, plus £25, plus this plus that – and our children have been desperate for a dog since before we moved so we thought this might be a good opportunity to see how it would suit us 🙂
Stayed there longer than planned too, so ended up having to squeeze Bob in with the soya milk and huge bags of flour, sugar and oats (sorry if any of your cartons are squished Gina!) as we dashed to the dentist, where we were all congratulated on nice teeth, Bob had a quick clean and A refused to open her mouth at all. Ah well!
Tuesday was swimming, which J could not do, but neither could J (there are too many Js!) so they sat together while the rest of us went in. Yet again there was no teacher *sigh* so I ended up handing A over to someone else in the toddler pool and going in with the children who should have been having a lesson. We started off doing the usual across the pool type stuff, then got out some woggles and used those to practise kicking alone and then in pairs, but fairly soon we all decided it was best for most of them to just have fun with the floats while I helped one or two at a time to do lengths. Fun, but not ideal – although at least they got to stay there for longer, since the improver class was very small and also had no teacher so they just joined in 🙂
After swimming we drove to a car park and collected a large dog 😀 with a new collar tag (the children watched it being engraved with or phone number), some worming tablets (giving those to a dog is soo much easier than thrusting them down our cats’ throats 😆 ), a large bed, lots of blankets and towels and a huge sack of food. We had a quick demo of how to use the halti and then K jumped in the boot with our (temporary) new golden retriever, Joy. As soon as we got home we had to run in, leaving K in the car with Joy, and stuff the cats into their travel basket so that Bob could take them to the vet for poorly-timed boosters. Not ideal for them to meet Joy from inside a plastic box, but otherwise we feared they would hide and we would not be able to find them an hour later when it was time to go 🙁 Then we took Joy for her first walk in the field at the back of the house, with the children taking it in turns to hold the lead once we’d established that she was not going to pull them over. K even very nobly picked up her poo, when I pointed out that if they wanted to have their own dog they would have to do that. I was impressed!
On Wednesday we were carless, while the garage tried to work out why the car has been cutting out again. Once again, it seems to be the computer sensor bit getting itself in a muddle for no real reason – apparently a common fault with Zafiras – so not a lot they can do about it. They reset the computer error thingie (highly technical, I know) just in case it was still showing the old message from last year when we had the same problem and said to go back when it did it again. So we had the car back in time to go and pick Bob up from his late meeting. We could have made it to the Gymnastics competition too, but J couldn’t have taken part and K wasn’t sure he wanted to, so they both decided they would rather go pond-dipping with the Cubs instead. Since J was only allowed to go with an adult to accompany him, thanks to cast, Akela said K could go too 🙂 So we picked Bob up, shovelled down a quick tea and they scooted off to the pond while L, A and I pootled.
Thursday was Tots and Nots, where we did lots of fun Aztec related things, including making masks, cooking and eating tortillas and a chocolate tasting 🙂 Rebecca, J and R came along too 😀 and we finished really late, but having had a great time – and still only done about half the things Gina and I had talked about for Aztecs, so with activities ready for next week 😀
