Swimming and Caching
On Saturday we went shopping in the morning and got quite a few things sorted out. We booked for family photos to be taken at the end of the month (but need to change the date cos A has come home to say he’d forgotten he’s on a course at work that day and can’t leave early). We got a couple of bits to finish off the Christmas boxes. Then we went to the mattress shop and laid around on some beds picking which mattress to buy. A said it made no difference to him what we chose so I picked a more pricey one that I liked best. It’s due to be delivered on Friday.
We had some lunch out and then drove to a swimming pool we haven’t been to before. It is much cheaper than the fun pool with wave machine and rapids but fine for us. There’s a kiddie pool that’s only 50cm at the shallow end so L could toddle in it, though he got a face full of water several times. M practiced his swimming and learnt to tread water and then played. The toilets were in a horrid state mind you, but pool toilets often are. L was like the incredible weeing baby, going of a long wee half way through swimming, then again at the end and then we had to stop part way home for another wee.
In the evening we had chilli with spinach in (A told M it was a type of herb and he ate it all and said it was lovely) and then watched Robin Hood together and the ballroom dancing.
Yesterday we went to Church in the morning which was heaving with people who don’t usually come to church but had been rallied to attend the baptisms of 3 young children. We sat at the back and L tipped my bag out, found a biscuit and made lots of crumbs and played noisily with some toys and M went out to Sunday school. The sermon was about baptism with The Lord of the Rings for examples which I didn’t exactly follow but mainly because I don’t know the story and got confused with the various people and I was somewhat distracted by L’s antics.
We cam home for some bacon sarnies and then went out geocaching to an iron age hill fort. The sheep were very wary of us and there was no one else there so it was quite peaceful.
We found the cache and just had time to go up the road a bit to a garden centre for a cuppa and to buy some more pansies and violas for the border under our front room window before the garden centre closed. Back at home we put a roast on for a late tea.
