Monday – Tower of London Despite poorly overhead cables and consequent delayed trains (I was very glad I had printed multiple copies of this before we left as it kept the children occupied for just the right amount of time!) and late start we managed to see everything on our list, which was based on the three hour list but without the yeoman Warder tour and with the addition of the Henry VIII display in the White Tower, a walk past Traitors Gate, a look at the scaffold site and a visit to the Fusiliers Museum. We also followed the Irish guards (buttons in sets of four) as they marched to collect the Word 🙂
Tube trouble delayed us on the way home but K still managed to make it to Beavers, just a little late and not in uniform.
Tuesday – Laura’s Star at our local cinema. Nice and gentle, lovely music, much enjoyed by all 🙂 Then home for a quick work blitz before violin, which started and ended late thanks to traffic holding the teacher up, leaving us with just enough time to get K dressed up and to Gymnastics for their Hallowe’en session. J and M also dressed up for their session, but turned out to be the only ones who had. M decided not to dress up after all, which left J’s way clear to win the best costume prize 😉
Wednesday – The Crimson Wing Mystery – a film about flamingos, which we nearly missed thanks to yet more traffic problems, but when we arrived and asked if it was too late the cinema staff seemed very happy to let us in. The children and I crept into the cinema, with me whispering dire warnings to them about not disturbing anybody and just quickly finding a place to sit even if we weren’t all together… to find that there were two other families there – 5 people in all, all of whom we knew – so we actually more than doubled the audience numbers! It’s a shame it was so poorly attended, because it was really an excellent film. Left me feeling a bit homesick though, quite unexpectedly, and rather concerned for the future of a species who rely entirely on the formation of a seasonal island in the middle of one lake for their nesting place. It was really well done, and even my sensitive little flowers made it through without being scared or upset, despite the fact that death was not skirted around.
We then picked up a freecycled coffee table (that was fun to fit in the car, with cello too!) and popped into Bouncearound for the first time in months if not years 🙂 Lunch on the run and then out to cello and Baby Music, picked up the cello and handed over the child for a sleepover, came home and did music practices but not Maths (half-hearted attempts made during BM were to have been followed up, but I ran out of steam) and then it was time for J and M to go to Cubs, while L and A played in the bath. It feels odd to be back to 4 children again, even if it is only for one night.
