Church and a fairly chilled afternoon
I was expecting it to be raining all day today and have M moaning that he was bored if I didn’t let him spend ages playing on computer games, but apart from alot of rain first thing the weather’s been OK and we’ve had a better day than anticipated.
We went to Church this morning and stayed for coffee afterwards to help plan the Harvest Festival for next Sunday. As well as being Harvest, it’s one family’s last service before they move, A’s birthday, J&C’s 41st wedding anniversary, and another family have alot of extra guests coming because their eldest has been officially adopted by her new dad and a thanksgiving for that is being included in the service - so lots to celebrate! We’re having a pot luck lunch so had to agree who was bringing what food. We let the organist organise us all - she bosses the vicar and keeps these kinds of things running fairly smoothly. So I need to remember to prepare salads and flan next Saturday and take fruit and veggies to decorate the church.
While we were nattering about food and leaving pressies, M played with J and his little brother J. Well, played in the lossest sense of the word, mainly consisting of pushing each other off the sofa they were all trying to sit on. Little brother has just started school, but still seems such a baby (as well as being a little bruiser!). He was really interested in L who was in the sling, and kept stroking his head. When L woke up he kept asking questions - “is that your baby?” (resisted a very strong urge to say “no, I borrowed him for the morning”!), “why doesn’t he have shoes on?”, “can he do buttons up yet?” - some funny questions!
We came home for lunch and then M went out to continue playing with J, who lives on our estate. It had come out fairly sunny so he took his bike out. Then it started drizzling and they played Jenga in the garage (I rarely have them playing in, and Little Brother was with them, which is even more of a recipe for disaster in the house, but I don’t feel bad because their mum won’t have kids in to play at hers either) , or at least they got the blocks out and then sounded like they were just having a lot of arguments about it. When it stopped raining they went back out to play and were in and out of the back garden and constantly nagging to come in and play computer games. The youngest must have gone home at some point, because the next thing I noticed, M and J were playing happily digging in the border of the back garden with tools out of our shed. It sounded quite involved and they had sand and mud and were building blocks of flats, and worms were involved somewhere (I didn’t inquire too closely!).
While M played out I did bits around the house, played with L and fiddled about trying out the free book downloads from Audible. Must ring BT again about our phone line and broadband and see if they’ve got anything sorted yet - we’re supposed to be just too far away from the exchange, but I keep hearing rumours of neighbours with broadband.
